Instancing Not Working, But Why?

marty

Hi, all!

I'm trying to instance a scene (.TSCN) into the main scene of a project using the following code, but nothing appears to be being instanced there:

var floor_resource = load("res://floor.tscn")
var this_floor = floor_resource.instance()

I also tried using this line to instance the scene, also without luck:

var this_floor = preload("res://floor.tscn").instance()

TwistedTwigleg

You need to add it as the child of a node somewhere, using something like insert_node_here.add_child(this_floor). Then you should be able to see it (assuming the node you’ve made it a child of is visible)

marty

I'm actually already doing that. I didn't know it was critical.

Anyway, it's not working.

Any other suggestions? I'm really baffled by this.

TIA!

TwistedTwigleg

Well, if you adding the child, then it most be something else. Here's some things you could try:

| Make sure the scene you are instancing is not hidden by default. | Check its position, make sure the camera can see it if it was added to the scene | Add a print statement to your instanced scene on its _ready function. If it prints to the console, then its added somewhere and we just need to find out where.

Other than that, I'm not sure. Normally instancing and calling add_child works, so the fact that it doesn't seem to be is rather confusing. Hopefully we can find out what's happening!

marty

Thanks for the suggestion, TT!

I had the instances signal as they were created, as you suggested, and was able to track down the problem in no time. The issue was just some bad code on my part, so nothing to share with future generations here. ;-)