Problems with timers

lamowa

Version: 4.6
For my game, I had to change the timer delay time many times, this script worked for a while, but then the errors indicated in the screenshots appeared. I say in advance that the links to the timers are indicated correctly, you can see for yourself in the screenshots. I also tried to create @onready variables, but the error still crashes. And if it can help, I have this script located in Globals called Global.
GDScript:

func _ready() -> void:
	$Technical/Timers/Timer1Layer.wait_time = randi() % 5 + randi() % 3
	$Technical/Timers/Timer1Layer.start()
	$Technical/Timers/Timer2Layer.wait_time = randi() % 5 + randi() % 3
	$Technical/Timers/Timer2Layer.start()
	$Technical/Timers/Timer3Layer.wait_time = randi() % 5 + randi() % 3
	$Technical/Timers/Timer3Layer.start()

Dodo_87

Hi lamowa,

I have tried to create a similar project and could only reproduce your errors in cases, where the pathes were invalid. So, even though you double checked and explicitly stated, that the timers are indicated correctly, please triple check!

Note, that there is a first error that states, that the node could not be found. The fact that is says "relative to root/Global" (and does not mention your root node Level) makes me think, that your script might be attached to the wrong node. Maybe check this as well.

lamowa

Dodo_87 Thank you, I noticed the error related to root/Global and deleted the global script, replacing it with static variables, no matter how strange it was, but it began to work.

kuligs2

maybe look into using signals, much cleaner

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_by_step/signals.html#complete-script

Rainfollower

There are other ways, too. All better than fixed static paths.

@export variable : Timer
Create timers from code as Timer.new() and then set required params

If you don't want to connect signals, I would try the former