Help With My Combat Game [Global Position, Use of key twice]

[tame crater]

Hello! I'm making a combat game and I'm stuck on 2 things.

**1. ** The player will have 2 different modes: Normal mode and Attack mode. When you press "E" you activate attack mode. How would I turn attack mode off when you press "E" again?

2. The game has 2 players and with attack mode, you're always facing the second player. How can I see a player's position from a different scene?
[For example: Access Player 2's position in Player 1's code]

Code:

        AttackMode = true

    if AttackMode == true:
        if self.position.x <= 640:
            $Image.set_flip_h(false)
            $Area2D/CollisionShape2D.position.x = 30

        if self.position.x >= 640:
            $Image.set_flip_h(true)
            $Area2D/CollisionShape2D.position.x = -26```

Thanks!

Help With My Comabt Game [Global Positon, Use of key twice]

Help With My Comabt Game [Global Position, Use of key twice]

[noble blade]

I can help with question 1

Instead of setting AttackMode = true, you could do AttackMode = !AttackMode, which essentially sets it to the opposite of whatever it currently is

[short zephyr]

1. you can do AttackMode = !AttackMode
2. Get_node works, but depends on the hierarchy, if the second player is always the child of the same node as the first player, then get_node("../Player2sNodeName") works

2. You can also do get_parent().get_node("Player2sNodeName")

replace Player2sNodeName with the name of player 2's node, obviously

[tame crater]

Thank You @noble blade and @short zephyr!

Help With My Combat Game [Global Position, Use of key twice]

@short zephyr Wait would this work between 2 scenes?

[short zephyr]

as in?

[tame crater]

Because I have Player 1 and Player 2 as separate scenes

[short zephyr]

as long as they're active at the same time and are the children of the same node then yea

being inside of a scene counts as being a child of the root node of that scene btw

[tame crater]

Well there not the child of the same node ;-;

[short zephyr]

not the parent, the child

those are... basically the opposites

[tame crater]

I meant child, sorry

[short zephyr]

can you show me the scene hierarchy

[tame crater]

?

[short zephyr]

like can you send me a screenshot of how the scene where the players are loaded in is set up?

the left "scene" tab

y'know where you can see the scene tree

[tame crater]

ah kk

[short zephyr]

also, if you're coming from unity, keep in mind that prefabs and scenes are basically the same thing in godot

and by basically i mean literally lol

[tame crater]

I've never used unity. I went from Pygame straight to Godot

[short zephyr]

ah i see

just a common misconception wanted to get that out of the way just in case

[tame crater]

This the main scene

[tame crater]

np

[short zephyr]

they are the child of the same node though, the scene root ("Main" node) is a node, and you can access the player nodes as children of that node

[tame crater]

Ik but like what I'm trying to do is use the Player 1 scene to get the position of Player 2's scene from Player 1's scene.

Because the code is written inside of the Player 1 script

[short zephyr]

yes but when you are running the code the player 1 will be a child of the "main" node

if you'd were to run player 1 as a scene (so nothing is loaded except player 1) then yes it wouldn't work

[tame crater]

I'm confused 💀

[short zephyr]

if you right click on Player 1 and press "run this scene" then it won't work because if that part of the code is run and it tries to reference a node with the relative path of "../Player 2" it won't find a valid instance
if you right click on "Main" and press "run this scene" then it will work because at the time that that line of the code is run the reference is a valid instance

[tame crater]

Like this is the code

[short zephyr]

think about it this way: you're not setting player 2 to be a variable that always exists within the player 1 code, you're instead searching for the player 2 node during the gameplay

[tame crater]

But I need the code to run like this

[short zephyr]

yeah that will work

also no need to do self. there

position.x will do the same thing as self.position.x

[tame crater]

Ik it just makes it easier to read

[tame crater]

But I don't have the player 2's position

That's what I'm trying to get

[short zephyr]

for ease of use you can do "var Player2 = get_node("../Player 2")" so you can just type Player2 when you need to refernce it

[short zephyr]

you will at the point when the code is run though

you will know the position of player 2

you can't have it before runtime because player 2's position just doesn't exist at that point

ill try to explain

[tame crater]

Oh wait hold on

I think it works

One second

[short zephyr]

i mean yeah that's not the problem, i wanna explain it to you in a clear way

[tame crater]

It works!

[short zephyr]

Player 2's position is a variable that will change during runtime.
Player 2 as a node doesn't exist within the Player 1 "scene", therefore you don't know Player 2's position. HOWEVER, you don't need player 2's position BEFORE the game is run.
When the game is run, both Player 1 and Player 2 exist. You are able to find what player 2's position is by referencing player 2 as a node (for the sake of this being easier to understand - think of it as opening a file, but not literally) and grabbing it's position property (like reading the contents of said file).
At this point, you know player 2's position, and are able to use it

is this clear? or is there something that needs explaining?

[tame crater]

This make's a LOT of sense

Thanks Mate!