get_node: node not found

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By Kore-rep

I’m using a scene to act as a scene changer, but in its script, it’s unable to find it’s child nodes.

My structure is like so:

SceneChanger 
   -Control
        -blackRect
   -AnimationPlayer

The two lines of code i use are

onready var animation_player = get_node("AnimationPlayer")
onready var black = get_node("Control/blackRect")

Without fail, they result in a get_node: “node not found” error. This doesnt crash the program, but when I try to call them later, the null pointer does.
I have tried:

get_node("root/SceneChanger/...")
$AnimationPlayer
self.get_node("..")

Is this an autoload? Did you autoload the scene or just the script? If you autoload the script, it has no child nodes, so this situation will occur.

kidscancode | 2020-04-22 17:53

Yes, it is an autoload, and I was loading the script not the scene… I should’ve seen that. Thanks for the help, much appreciated!!

Kore-rep | 2020-04-22 18:31