SparksTheGamer

Tomcat Strange. I can't drag them in the node tree, I even tried ticking "Drag to rearrange"... I can't right-click and choose "Move Up" either

I'm guessing some other setting somewhere in this project is messing with it somehow...

The console prints "Reparent Node" and "Move Node In Parent" when I drag or Move Up respectively but nothing changes.

In other languages you can do
var foo = a[0] | b
which sets foo to a[0] unless it evaluates as false (undefined, null, false etc), then it sets it to b.

It looks like in godot you have to do
var foo = a[0] if a[0] else b
which is an unfortunate repeat of a[0] meaning you either have to define a[0] to a new variable first, or look it up twice...

Godot 4.1

I have a series of richTextLabel nodes that appear inside a VBoxContainer, new ones appearing under existing ones.

I'd really like the new label to smoothly slide the existing ones up, so that you can continue reading, but I can't work out how. Because it's part of a vbox container, I can't use an animation to smoothly change the size of the node, and if I animate the scale of the richTextLabel the animation plays, but the space the node takes up within the Container is that of its maximum, not-animated size. The animation isn't respected by the parent.

Is there a way I can achieve this, or is there a different parent node than VBoxContainer that I could use to achieve this effect more neatly?

Note: I'm already animating in the words but this isn't as smooth as I like. If i use visible characters then after every line, all the text snaps up which is a lot of small movements all the time, and if I use visible ratio, I get closer to the effect I want where the text only moves up once when a new paragraph appears, but it's still a very sharp motion that I'd love to smooth.

Paragraphs in the scene (left) with the editor structure (right)

Megalomaniak The set parcel type function is called in a for loop, so it's run multiple times, and the other parts of the set function do correctly apply per parcel. The texture is correct, the texture offset is correct, and the parcels each report their correct volume value. ONLY the collision size experiences this weird syncing

Megalomaniak Oops! That was left over from debugging, but removing it doesn't fix the issue. I've updated the parcel code to remove the ready in the post above.

If the last parcel added to the scene is a 3x1, ALL parcels will then have their size be 384,128, for example, so it's not that they are all just always 128,128

Hello! I'm very new to godot but not to programming. I have a weird thing happening and I can't work out the cause.

My game has several instances of a parcel scene. When instantiated, the parcel is told what size of parcel it is. It sets its texture, collision box, texture offset and internal variables to make it behave correctly for that size.

What's really odd is that each type of parcel works correctly when instantiated, but if I have multiple sizes of parcel in the scene at once, even though they all maintain their correct texture and variables, their collision sizes are all updated to the last shape that was added to the scene.

I'm confused because I event print their collision size values to the output as they're added and it's correct, so I don't know when it gets changed, why, or why only that property is somehow synced between them but other properties remain unique.

Main scene:

Node 2D [script]

• Control

  Main.gd
  extends Node2D
  
  var Parcel = preload("res://objects/parcel.tscn")
  @onready var grid = $Control/GridContainer
  var parcels = {"1x1":5, "2x1": 3,  "3x1":1, "2x2":2}  #an example output from generate_puzzle()
  
  # Called when the node enters the scene tree for the first time.
  func _ready():
  	generate_puzzle() #this fills the parcels variable and doesn't touch any nodes
  	for type in parcels:
  		for parcel in parcels[type]:
  			var box = Parcel.instantiate()
  			box.parcel_dropped.connect(dropped_parcel)
  			print("added box type " + type)
  			box.set_parcel_type(type)
  			box.start_position = Vector2(80+(130*round(parcel/7)),100 + 130*(parcel%7))
  			add_child(box)

parcel scene:
Node2D [script]

• Texture (Sprite2D)
• Area2D
  --CollisionShape2D

parcel.gd
extends Node2D

var texture_1x1 = preload("res://Assets/Art/Objects/Parcels/1x1.png")
var texture_2x1 = preload("res://Assets/Art/Objects/Parcels/2x1.png")
var texture_2x2 = preload("res://Assets/Art/Objects/Parcels/2x2.png")
var texture_3x1 = preload("res://Assets/Art/Objects/Parcels/3x1.png")
var clicked = false
var filled_slots = 0
var volume = 1
var size = Vector2(128,128)
signal parcel_dropped(node)
var start_position = Vector2(0,0)
var return_to_sender = false

# Called every frame. 'delta' is the elapsed time since the previous frame.
func _physics_process(delta):
	if clicked and not return_to_sender:
		global_position = lerp(global_position, get_global_mouse_position(), 25 * delta)
	if return_to_sender:
		global_position = lerp(global_position, start_position, 25 * delta)
		if global_position.distance_to(start_position) < 1: return_to_sender = false
		
func _enter_tree():
	global_position = start_position

#func _ready():
#	$Area2D/CollisionShape2D.get_shape().set_size(size)
#	print(size)

func _on_area_2d_input_event(viewport, event, shape_idx):
	if Input.is_action_just_pressed("lclick"):
		clicked = true
	if Input.is_action_just_released("lclick"):
		parcel_dropped.emit(self)
		clicked = false

func set_parcel_type(type = "1x1"):
	print("setting my parcel type to " + str(type))
	var tex = $Texture
	var shape = $Area2D/CollisionShape2D
	if type == "1x1":
		tex.texture = texture_1x1
		tex.offset.x = 0
		shape.position.x = 0
		size = Vector2(128,128)
		volume = 1
	if type == "2x1":
		tex.texture = texture_2x1
		tex.offset.x = 64
		shape.position.x = 64
		size = Vector2(258,128)
		volume = 2
	if type == "3x1":
		tex.texture = texture_3x1
		tex.offset.x = 128
		shape.position.x = 128
		size = Vector2(384,128)
		volume=3
	if type == "2x2":
		tex.texture = texture_2x2
		tex.offset.x = 64
		tex.offset.y = 64
		shape.position.x = 64
		shape.position.y = 64
		size = Vector2(258,258)
		volume=4
	shape.get_shape().set_size(size)
	print(shape.get_shape().get_size())

func _on_area_2d_area_entered(area):
	if area.is_in_group("slot"):
		filled_slots += 1
		print("Width: " + str($Area2D/CollisionShape2D.get_shape().get_size()))
		if not clicked and filled_slots < volume:
			return_to_sender = true
		print(filled_slots)


func _on_area_2d_area_exited(area):
	if area.is_in_group("slot"):
		filled_slots -= 1
		print(str(filled_slots))
		if not clicked and filled_slots < volume:
			return_to_sender = true