How can i stop a coin/anything like a coin. To stop spawning after a certain number

[quiet sage]

Hi so I've been making a game just to kinda learn godot and gdscript but i ran into a problem, my coin keeps spawning every 5 seconds I wanted to know how can i stop it from spawning. Thanks

Oh forgot to mention i mean like they spawn i get them and they spawn again

[remote flame]

Where do you spawn it in code ?

[quiet sage]

Made a coins script for it

[remote flame]

Could you send it here ?

[quiet sage]

Sure give me a few minutes

Had to use my phone sorry

[remote flame]

Oh it's because the timer is set to loop

You can click the timer in the scene tree and tick the "One Shot" box

[quiet sage]

Yeah but I want the coin to spawn again but stop spawning after a certain number

[remote flame]

Yeah if I understand correctly you want to spawn 3 of them right ?

[quiet sage]

yeah and the get them then spawn again

then*

[remote flame]

Wait so you do want them to keep spawning ?

[quiet sage]

yes but not like after 3 they spawn more

[remote flame]

Oh I see

Okay so let me check if I understand correctly

You want to spawn 3 coins when the game starts

And then whenever you pick one, a new one spawns ?

[quiet sage]

yes

[remote flame]

Okay, and what is the timer for ?

[quiet sage]

for them to spawn after a certain time

[remote flame]

Alright, and you want them to also wait some time before respawning ?

[quiet sage]

yeah

[remote flame]

Okay

So what I'd do :

You still set the timer to One Shot, so it only spawns 3 coins when the game starts

And in the function in which you pick up the coin, you can do :

await get_tree().create_timer(wait_time).timeout
#spawn the new coin

[quiet sage]

okay maybe i'm doing it wrong but after spawning for the first time then getting them they don't spawn again

[remote flame]

Can you show me the function in which you pick up the coins ?

[remote flame]

Okay, so in your coin_get() function, you can add this

So whenever you get a coin, it waits X seconds then spawns a new one

[quiet sage]

like this ?

[remote flame]

That wouldn't work because the coin will be destroyed before it can spawn the new one

I would entrust this to the GameManager.coin_get() function

But now that I think about it I think you need to do get_tree().create_timer(wait_time).timeout.connect(my_spawn_coin_function)

So it won't halt the destruction of the first coin

[remote flame]

This line basically says "keep moving through the function, but when the timer I just created runs out, call my_spawn_coin_function"