Help with what nodes to attach scripts to

m0bamb1

I am beginner in Godot, and I have a decent understanding of writing code and programming in general. So far I feel my greatest hurdle is knowing what to do in which script, and what node to add which script to.

For example for my first project I just created a node that doesn't do anything other than house my one script where I do everything. I know/feel that this is the wrong way, so I would appreciate some guidance on this topic.

DaveTheCoder

My guidelines:
Minimize the need to reference other nodes from a script.
If you need to reference other nodes from a script, only reference child nodes, i.e. nodes that are in the subtree of which the node is the root.

m0bamb1

DaveTheCoder There is build in support to easily reference whatever node the script is attached to and it children, correct?

DaveTheCoder

Yes.