How do I send a signal to only a specific node instead of all the connected ones? | Godot Café | Page 1

junior plaza Oct 16, 2023, 8:41 PM

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I would like to send a "startTurn" signal to the first child of my "turnManager" node I only know I can do startTurn.emit() but that does not really accomplish what I need as I only want to send the signal to the first child of my turn manager node

vagrant locust Oct 17, 2023, 12:36 AM

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that's not how signals work. they always call every connected function when they emit. if you want to have a signal call only 1 function, connect that signal to only that 1 function. or you could emit a receiver code that the connectionis use to tell if the signal was for them

hushed oriole Oct 17, 2023, 12:41 AM

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Or get a reference to the node with the function and call it directly, without signals

junior plaza Oct 17, 2023, 8:15 AM

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vagrant locust that's not how signals work. they always call every connected function when they...

Yeah I ended up doing it by emiting the name of the object I just didn't know you could do that

hushed oriole Oct 18, 2023, 3:27 PM

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Yes you can send all sorts of parameters with signals 😃 : https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_by_step/signals.html

Godot Engine documentation

Using signals

In this lesson, we will look at signals. They are messages that nodes emit when something specific happens to them, like a button being pressed. Other nodes can connect to that signal and call a fu...

#How do I send a signal to only a specific node instead of all the connected ones?