Trying to find some good approaches to handling projectiles

[snow phoenix]

I'm working on implementing projectiles for my third-person shooter and was wondering what the best approach(es) would be, as adding them directly to the shooter or weapon is not a good idea and I'm kind of lost.

[languid furnace]

you can add them directly to your world scene

so it can move independently from your player

[snow phoenix]

I was thinking that, but then I was wondering what would be the best way to attach it, as I don't know how many nodes deep the shooter might be, and going up the tree with get node is a bad idea anyway with how brittle it leaves things.

[languid furnace]

When you add the shooter to the scene_tree, there is always a node on top of it, like the viewport

so should be safe to get_node on top of it

you could also emit signal when you shoot, but you can no longer test in isolation without the listener that adds the bullets to the world

[plain spruce]

Not everyone agree with this approach, but you can use a dedicated node as projectile parent

[dreamy escarp]

I would just add it to the scene tree with get_tree().root.add_child(...).
Do you need to "retrieve" these bullets again? Wondering where the position of the bullets in the scene tree affect your use case (if it does).