Enemy Collision Resulting in Death

old_wolves

I there, I'm pretty new to GDScript and coding in general. I was sailing along smoothly until I hit a major snag with the death function and haven't been able to find any answers anywhere. Any help would be appreciated, even just directing me to a tutorial or thread you know of.

So I have a KinematicBody2D Player character that I want to die when he runs into a spike. I've set the Spikes up as Area2D nodes.

Now, ideally, I'd like a die() function in my Player's code that stops the game, plays a sound, plays a death animation in it's AnimatedSprite node and brings up a gameover screen.

I've tried a few different times, creating die() functions, signaling form the spike to the player, etc. But nothing seems to be working.

I have this die() function in my player's code, just to see if it's connecting. func die(): print ("ded") $AnimatedSprite.play("die")

Then I have a signal from the pike to the level both the spike and the player are in that calls func _on_Spike_area_entered(area): $Player.die()

When I run the scene, nothing happens at all when I pass through the spike.

Zireael

$Player means it's looking for the node named Player that's a child of whatever has the script with the on_Spike_area_entered.

old_wolves

@Zireael said: $Player means it's looking for the node named Player that's a child of whatever has the script with the on_Spike_area_entered.

Yes, both the player and the spike are in the level scene, where this code is found.

LeetRunt

On your area entered code, check if the body that entered is the player, if it is then it must run $Player.die() I'll edit the comment with an example a bit later if you want me too.

old_wolves

@LeetRunt said: On your area entered code, check if the body that entered is the player, if it is then it must run $Player.die() I'll edit the comment with an example a bit later if you want me too.

Oh ok, something like func _on_Spike_area_entered(area): if body.name == "Player" $Player.die() ?

I would love an example!

LeetRunt

You're on the right track in your thinking.

Here is the example:

func _process(delta):
	
	for area in $Area2D.get_overlapping_areas():
		var body = area.get_parent()
		if (body.name == "Player"):
		$Player.die()

You can just replace func process(delta): with func on_spike_area_entered(area):

I hope it helps

old_wolves

Sweet, I'll try that, thanks man!