Spawning without a key press

Question

Alright, I've been looking at tutorials on youtube to get myself familiarized with Godot.

So far so good, a little hang up as the video is a bit older. The game in question is a brick breaking game. Simple, straight forward. Best way to learn I figured is to tweak it, fiddle, and try to add my own ideas further on it. The snag is I can't seem to figure out how to spawn a new ball when the old one gets past the paddle.

extends KinematicBody2D
class_name Paddle

const new_ball = preload("res://Mini Scene/Ball.tscn")

func ready():
setphysicsprocess(true)
setprocess_input(true)

func physicsprocess(delta):
var y = position.y
var mousex = getviewport().getmouseposition().x
setposition(Vector2(mousex, y))

func inputevent(viewport, event, shapeidx):
if event.type == newball.end:
var ball = newball.instance()
ball.setposition(position-Vector2(0, 16))
getparent().addchild(ball)

I apologize if I have totally butchered this, as I am new to this. So far in my readings over the course of several hours, all the text i've come across is how to spawn something based on a mouse or the keyboard but I want it to automatically spawn at the point of the paddle.Could I get some help perhaps?

Thank you.

Comments

Don't know if my question got buried. I apologize for beating a dead horse, but I feel that this is a bit of important question to ask. So far, I still have yet to find any way to spawn something without input from the user. Is there anyone out there that is capable of answer this? Would really appreciate it!

Answer 1

Hey,

How about an Area2D? If the balls enters the zone, que it free and then spawn a new one?

Comments

I wouldn't mind doing that. As I have no problem removing the ball when it goes out of bounds. The thing is, HOW do I create a new ball, without it requiring input from the user?

So far any and all tutorials I have read/seen involve a key press or a mouse input for me to spawn a new ball. Is their no way to make this an automatic feature?

e.g.

func inputevent(viewport, event, shapeidx):
if event.type == newball.queuefree():
var ball = newball.instance()
ball.setposition(position-Vector2(350, 350))
getparent().add_child(ball)

Perhaps I am wrong in how I am "phrasing" my code for godot to understand. Im like a childing fumbling in the dark here. But essentially in my eyes, I am saying IF an event.type newball is queuefreed, then get the new_ball instance, set its position, and then I direct it to the balls root scene.