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1000h

Calling a function that adds a child to some parent and sets the childs name to something, the childs name is prepended with "@" and appended with "@"number.  This is extremely annoying. Apparently all nodes don't have RIDs.... so.... yeah I feel like checking nodes by get_nodes by other get_nodes either hasn't worked or it just seems like so much extra work that I have been avoiding it and haven't realized it If when you print a node and you get a result like [NodeClass:unique_number] in the console, why would names be altered because you used .call(method) to create the node  <strike>I haven't gone into using RIDs before but I feel like this is what I am going to need to do.  I don't see why you can't have two children of the same name if their RID's are different, assuming an RID is a unique identity number....  has anyone else encountered this as an annoyance? </strike>

Kiori

Please be careful with using "@" since it's a way to call users it might lead to unintended consequences. Fixed the title and the post content.

Akien

That happens because you can't have several nodes with the same name as children of the same parent. If you have a Node named "Foo" in your parent node, and you duplicate it or add a new sibling with the same name, it will be named @Node<unique ID>. You can use the optional legible_unique_name argument if you really want the nodes to have a human-readable name in the SceneTree: http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/classes/class_node.html#class-node-add-child But this is actually rarely useful, there are much better ways to keep track of nodes, like adding them to groups, to an array, iterating over the children of their parent, etc. Relying on the node unique name for logic is hazardous.