hello! i recently started using godot (used to blender for the most part). I'm trying to design a mechanic where the player shoots a projectile and a companion (friendly) chases after the object and latches onto it. Been watching projectile tutorials and getting enemies to follow the player or a set object so I'm thinking the answer is some kind of amalgamation/frankenstein of these functions? any ideas/advice for a godot noob?

the general principle of the mechanic is having a dog/wolf character chase and interact with a thrown bone/arrows

    the general question is too general. There are many ways to achieve depending on the side effects you want to implement.

    So what you need is a bullet that shoots in a direction, if it hits a body, the bullet spawns a friendly character, this character follows the body it touched.

    Its pretty basic. There are tutorials that teach you each of the things you are struggling with, all you need is to compose them together the way that makes sense to you.

    took me less than 5 minutes to find the tutorials. if you have wanted to invest time on your problem you could have already made something, and came here with a specific problem

    4 days later

    danyeweast Wide breadth of a question, difficult to give you any specific code without writing the whole thing for you, which doesn't encourage learning.

    So, I would set it up with the player, wolf and a throw_node as siblings (having a common parent). I would have that common parent connect a signal throw from player to throw_node, when player throws object the signal is emitted and item is instantiated as child of throw_node. The common parent would also connect a chase signal from throw_node to wolf. That would be emitted when the object is added as child, and pass a reference to wolf. Wolf would use that reference to chase the object.

    That is a basic setup to do what you want. Once you've implemented something and have difficulty with a specific part of it, you can ask here again, and I'll be happy to assist you. You can even send me a message if you run into a specific problem.

        22 days later

        xRegnarokx Thank you! Honestly, even ballpark answers with terms I can research is a huge help! Someone had previously mentioned looking into signals so it sounds like that's gonna be the best bet. Got side-tracked learning how to create water shaders (lol). I appreciate you explaining it in broad terms (without writing a code)! I plan to learn whatever's applicable and start piecing together a better understanding of Godot (mostly been putzin' around with Blender for a year). Thank you all for the help!

            16 days later

            danyeweast No worries mate! Yeah I recently switched from 2D to 3D, and have had to learn a lot of extra stuff and change my thinking a bit.

            So, yeah I would in general research signals, and the return keyword, these two are critical elements for communicating between func and scripts and can/should eliminate a lot of direct func calls.

            The principle of coding with godot setup is to call down (Parent func -> $ChildName.func_name()) and signal/return up (Child func -> emit_signal("something"), or return something). Best of luck, I have messed around with blender some recently when I switched to 3D, but mainly to just create some placeholder art for testing purposes.