How to make an animation play when I click on a separate sprite?

Moonyolk

Hi all, I am making a simple game as practice. The idea right now is that when the user clicks on the laptop sprite, the animation for the rabbit sprite would play. This is the code I have right now, and I feel like I'm close, but am messing on the rabbit script if anyone could help? I tried to play the scene but obviously, the rabbit animation is not playing when I click on the laptop sprite.

ArDanZ11

Moonyolk I just made a game that has a button behind the computer sprite, but it doesn't show. If you are having backgrounds, just but the button in the layer behind them so you don't see it, but it is still clickable.

Here is the project so you can see what I did:

thisfunnygame.zip

7kB

DaveTheCoder

Inside the AnimatedSprite2D's script, use play("bash") or self.play("bash"), not $AnimatedSprite2D.play("bash"), which is referencing a child node named "AnimatedSprite2D".

You should have gotten an error message about referencing a non-existent node.

Moonyolk

DaveTheCoder thanks for your reply - I actually didn't get an error about that. The error I'm receiving seems to be about getting the node.

DaveTheCoder

That line doesn't make any sense.

You're passing a file system path to get_node() instead of a NodePath.
The file system path isn't even correct.
You're not using the result of the get_node() call.

Have you done the Getting Started tutorials in the documentation?

Also, it's better to post code and error messages as text, not as pictures. That way, portions can be copy/pasted to provide corrections.

Moonyolk

DaveTheCoder

yes, I have been looking through the Getting Started tutorials, but am still confused as I try to input the methods they have shown into my code.

DaveTheCoder

Can you post the project folder as a .zip attachment? That would make it easy for me or someone else to diagnose it.

Omit the .godot subfolder from the .zip.

Also state the exact Godot version you're using.

Moonyolk

DaveTheCoder

clickergame.zip

61kB

Here's the zip!

DaveTheCoder

Moonyolk Here's the zip!

The project.godot file is missing.

And you didn't state the exact Godot version you're using.

Moonyolk

DaveTheCoder very sorry about that, it's been hectic and I appreciate your patience. Reuploaded and the version of Godot I am using is 4.4.1

clickergame.zip

67kB

DaveTheCoder

Moonyolk Reuploaded

I've imported your project into Godot 4.4.1-stable.

I'm having some trouble figuring how how its pieces fit together.

But the code that responds to the laptop-clicked signal and plays the animation is in rabbit_time.gd. That script does not appear to be attached to a node that's in the runtime scene tree, so the code will never run.

func _on_laptop_laptop_sprite_clicked() -> void:
	self.play("bash")

You can view the runtime scene tree from the Remote tab in the Scene dock.
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.4/tutorials/scripting/debug/overview_of_debugging_tools.html#remote-in-scene-dock

Tomcat

Moonyolk Reuploaded and the version of Godot I am using is 4.4.1

The project you shared does not match the screenshots in the first post.

Moonyolk

DaveTheCoder

Ah, so the issue is that the parameter "Common parent" is null because I might not have correctly integrated two nodes into the same scene tree, got it. I'll have to look over this again. Thanks for the help!

Moonyolk

Tomcat yes, I've been updating the code in an attempt to try and fix the issues I'm facing, to no avail.

Tomcat

Moonyolk Well, on screenshots you have at least the scripts attached to the nodes. And how the project should work, which shared — a mystery.

DaveTheCoder

If you're still having problems and want help, could you provide a complete description of how the game is intended to work?

I.e., clicking on A causes X, clicking on B causes Y, etc.

Moonyolk

DaveTheCoder yes, so my intention is that when you click on the laptop, the animation for the rabbit changes from "idle" (the current animation playing) to "bash"(a different animation).

DaveTheCoder

There's more to the project than that. You don't need six scripts simply to change an animation.

Moonyolk

DaveTheCoder the other scripts are referring to the starting scenes of the project, leading up to the scene with the bash animation in it. "Start" and "crying" has code in them pertaining to a timer and some dialogue, but aren't referenced in this problem I'm facng. The "rev_up" script was created because I was trying to see if referencing the rabbit and laptop nodes in there (as Rev_up is the parent node) would help with establishing the signal from laptop to rabbit since the issue seems to be that I need to fix the path.