#How to setup nodes to create different bullet patterns

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fresh ridge
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There are many ways of making this work depending on how you want every little thing to work but you can try looking into State Machines.
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obsidian idol
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State machines seems rather overkill?

fresh ridge
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I don't think so?
Either way, you don't really have to have a statemachine, but you can approach guns with a similar idea where a gun can be a node

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the ship sends the shoot signal to whatever gun is equipped and the gun has the behaviour of what it should do when shot

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Or the ship can have all the weapons at any time, and you can just swap which one is active

obsidian idol
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Just so I understand, I would have to swap out the nodes/scripts ( i dont want the weapons to always be attached to the ship )

fresh ridge
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You can have references to the nodes in the script like
var weapon_a = preload("res://..wherever the weapon scene is")
and then you would add a weapon by doing
var weapon = weapon_a.instantiate()
add_child(weapon)
and when you want to remove it
weapon.queue_free()

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Also if weapons have no visual changes, just different behaviours, you can just have them on the ship all the time, have a variable that points to the currently active weapon, and only call its fire function