hollow crane
I want to know how to make power-ups respawn after being collected by the player.
Currently, the closest I got to making them do that exactly, is making the game check if the instance of that one power-up exists. if it does, do nothing. if it doesn't, spawn it after counting to 10 seconds. I did this in _process(), and it ended up spawning TONS of power-ups. How can I make this mechanic work properly?
here's the code for the power-up spawner
should i post it as text here?
sharp lantern
When you recover the powerup, you can simply start a timer and then when it timeout, you respawn the powerup.
ruby shadow
Your powerup could send a signal to its spawner when collected ; this signal enable a timer, when timer ends spawn_hp() is call.
hollow crane
fixed it - had to make the powerup a child of the spawner parent, then the child sends a signal to the parent, which starts a one-shot timer, and then when the timer hits 0, it spawns the powerup. i also had to make a bool which would reset everytime the spawner spawns a powerup so it wouldn't spawn like 100 powerups every frame
thank you, @ruby shadow !
and you too, @sharp lantern !