Connect signal to different scene in project, or maybe connect signal from instance of scene

CarlF

As mentioned in another thread, I am trying to work through the Godot 3.1 tutorial at godotengine.com. On the Your First game page you are directed, "In the Node tab, connect the HUD’s start_game signal to the new_game() function."

Problem: the HUD is a separate scene from the Player (avatar) scene, which is where the new_game() function is. There's a HUD instance in Main, and also a Player instance. However: the GUI (the Node panel) says that the HUD instance in Main emits only the standard signals of a CanvasItem, not the custom signal start_game. Therefore I can't connect it, which means the Start button can't actually start a game.

I'm quite certain I'm missing something obvious, and I'm calling on the community to publicly embarrass me!

CarlF

Supplement to my previous message: when comparing the project I created with the "official" version at GitHub, I see that my instanced scenes have the Node2D icon in the treeview, where the official version of HUD has what looks like a fountain pen icon (() and Player has what seem to be a "resize" icon (().

Looking at the actual tscn files, it appears that Player is an Area2D, where in my project it's a Node2D. So the problem is ... that I didn't read the directions correctly when creating my scenes. That would explain it,

So I've now either publicly embarrassed myself, or redeemed myself by figuring out what I did wrong on my own. I'll leave that judgment to you.

uaknight

Redeemed, for sure!

I'm new to Godot myself (coming from Unity), but loving it so far. There's always a learning process involved and I stumble on issues like yours all the time. Yesterday evening for example, I sat and read in the documentation about creating custom resources in the inspector (the equivalent of Unity's scriptable objects). And I couldn't figure it out. Just when I was about giving up and started thinking of asking on the forum, it suddenly came clear to me.

So keep learning and good luck with your development!