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Published before Godot 3 was released.
I’m going to ask and answer this question for the points since I’ve answered it too many times.
A few times the question has mistakenly been “How Can I have 2 parents for a script/node?” This is obviously mistaken as a class/node CANNOT have two parents.
The better question I answered today was asked in Facebook which is the following:
Hey guys, a question about subclassing:
I’d like to be able to add script to an object on the scene, extending a class I wrote ( not one of built-in base classes ). I can’t figure out where I can define them.
The node system of Godot is basically complete OOP. Therefore, each node/script is considered an object, while scenes are collections of objects. You can make virtual scripts/ or children designed to be parents ealily by paying attention to the the first line with print. The one that starts with ‘extends’
To make a virtual script you create a script extending the node of your choice and adding your code. For this example I’ll use RigidBody2D we will call it my_rigid_bodies.gd:
extends RigidBody2D
#add the rest of the code you would want every node that will use this
script as a parent to have
Then, in the node you want to use the code you extended you would use the following:
extends "res://path/to/my_rigid_bodies.gd"
#add more code specific to the individual here
Also, note that you can use relative paths in the extends statement.
