Counter for number of spawned mobs killed

cemen_demon

I used the code below to spawn mobs on a Path2D Node every time a timer timeouts and I tried to add a counter for how many mobs died by changing the code on the mob.gd so that a count would go up every time it dies but that only went up to 1, and I'm guessing that's because its technically the same scene being instantiated. Is there anyway to fix it?
The code I used in main.gd to spawn mobs:
func spawn_mob(): var new_mob = preload("res://mob.tscn").instantiate() %PathFollow2D.progress_ratio = randf() new_mob.global_position = %PathFollow2D.global_position add_child(new_mob)

func _on_timer_timeout(): spawn_mob()

DaveTheCoder

There's no counter in the code you posted.

The counter variable should be located outside the mob class. It could also be done with a static variable inside the class, if you understand how to use static variables.

cemen_demon

DaveTheCoder the code was just what I used to spawn the mobs. the mob scene is separate from the main game scene, and I tried putting counter += 1 after the queue free in the mob.gd but that just made the counter go to 1

DaveTheCoder

Place the counter in the main scene. In the mob scene, after the queue_free(), emit a signal such as "mob_killed". Connect the signal to a function in the main scene that increments the counter.

cemen_demon

DaveTheCoder i cant connect the signal cus mob isn't a child of the main scene, its separate and only gets instantiated

Megalomaniak

I would probably have a node dedicated to mission stats, lets call it MissionStats and have variables in it with setters and getters then use signals from mob spawns to inform the MissionStats node to set a new value to a relevant kill count variable on mob death(signal sent from the mob script).

cemen_demon

Megalomaniak for some reason this only increases the counter to 1

DaveTheCoder

You don't have to use a signal. That's probably how I would do it.

You're calling this in main.gd:
add_child(new_mob)

That's adding the mob as a child of the current node. Isn't that the main node?

Instead of using a signal, declare the count in main.gd, at the top before any functions:
var count: int

In main.gd's _ready function:
count = 0

In main.gd's spawn_mob function, after new_mob has been initialized:
new_mob.main = self

In mob.gd, at the top before any functions:
var main: Node

In mob.gd, when a mob dies:
main.count += 1

cemen_demon

I found the problem as to why it wasn’t updating. I put the text = str(counter) inside func _ready() and when I instead put it in func _process(delta) -> void: it updated with every kill.
It might have also been the fact that something else was wrong in the mob code or main code but just having get_tree().call_group("counter", "counterplus") in the mob code before queue_free() and having the label in func _process(delta) -> void: works.
This was my second project and I just followed a guide to make the game so I didn’t know that the text for the label had to be under that func.
Thank you everyone for your help!