Is there a way to use a raycast or area2d or any other node to detect other scenes or nodes that are inside it?
I'm trying to make a bullet the player can shoot to kill enemies it hits. The enemies are basically just animatedsprite2d nodes with a point light attached. They don't have a collision shape. Is there a way to detect other nodes/scenes without using a hitbox of some sort, and is there a way to get a reference to the node/scene the raycast hit?
#Raycast stuff
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cloud crystal
Raycasts and areas are physics constructs, they can't "see" anything that doesn't have a collision shape
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oh
cloud crystal
Why don't you want to use collision shape if you don't mind me asking? Since this is kinda the exact stuff hitboxes are designed for
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it's just that my character isn't a characterbody2d, so it gives me an error if i use a collision shape on it. Does that matter, or will it work anyway?
enemies too
cloud crystal
Ah yeah that will matter, why not just change them all into character bodies?
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should I?
cloud crystal
Well they are characters, and you need the physics system for your purposes
So it makes sense that they should be
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i guess
cloud crystal
You could use AnimatableBody2D but probably makes more sense to use CharacterBody
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would I be able to replacce the characterbody2d script with the character script i already have?
cloud crystal
would I be able to replacce the characterbody2d script with the character script...
There's no script to replace
It's a node
You'd just attach your characer script to the node
And change your extends declaration to extends CharacterBody2D