How to organize my nodes

xRegnarokx

So, as part of the project I am working on I am creating ships. Now, this is a turn based game and ships will have parts; front, back, left, right, and center. These areas will be able to be individually destroyed, and there will be components with in them (thrusters, engines, shields, weapons, sensors, ...) which can be destroyed as well. I am trying to figure out how to configure my node tree for the ship (also the ship will be controlled by a controller node so that the code can be consolidated in order to control multiple ships, without each having unique code for that.

The question is how might be a good way to create the node tree, I currently have it set up something like this

TurnController (Node2D)
     Ship (Node2D)
          ShipArea (Area2D)
               Front (CollisionShape2D)
                    Weapon1 (Sprite)
                    Thruster (Sprite)
                Back (CollisionShape2D)
                    Weapon1 (Sprite)
                Left (CollisionShape2D)
                Right (CollisionShape2D)
                Center (CollisionShape2D)

I just feel like there must be a better way to do this, and maybe simplify my node tree.

ratala

Your node tree seems fine for me. You could put the code of the controller in a script independent from any nodes.

You can then load the script using either 'load()' or 'preload'.

Another option would be to specify a 'class_name' at the top of the script. Then, you could create instance of a controller using this class. For example, ShipController.new().