dusty flare
I'm making an RPG rocket where, upon exploding, its supposed to hit multiple enemies around it. The first collision is smaller, as it only needs to hit 1 enemy, but once it does, it is supposed to 'explode' and hit multiple of them. I'm not sure how to implement multi-collisions in this case. The bullet is an Area2D.
My question is: how would you implement this? (I can provide screenshots if needed).
worn pawn
For these one time immediate area detections where there's not even an (active) Area node with the appropriate shape it's best to use
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_physicsdirectspacestate2d.html#class-physicsdirectspacestate2d-method-intersect-shape
Otherwise you'll have to create a temporary area node and wait a physics frame for it to update.
Another option is to create a shapecast node, they can do immediate forced updates