Death animation not playing when player collides with enemu | Brackeys Community | Page 1

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:15 PM

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i genuinely have no clue what to do here.
im trying to follow a tutorial and uh....

whenever i begin to debug it, everytime the player comes into contact with the enemy, it doesnt play the death animation.

help wanted!

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:16 PM

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misty tartan i genuinely have no clue what to do here. im trying to follow a tutorial and uh....

what's the code you have?

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:17 PM

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func die() -> void:
animated_sprite_2d.animation = "dying
alive = false

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:18 PM

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[]cb

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arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:18 PM

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but how are you calling it?

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:18 PM

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calling it?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:18 PM

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the die function

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where are you calling it from

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:19 PM

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player scene?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:19 PM

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elaborate

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are you using a signal?

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:21 PM

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"player_died"

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:21 PM

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is that a signal you've defined?

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:22 PM

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arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:22 PM

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that's not connected to anything

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:22 PM

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the body.die()?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:22 PM

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no i mean the _on_player_died function doesn't have a signal connected to it

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if it did, it'd have a little green arrow icon to the left of the line number

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:23 PM

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green arrow icon?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:23 PM

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you don't have that, so it's not connected to a signal

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:23 PM

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how do i connect it?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:25 PM

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select your node (probably an area2d?), go into the 'Node' tab and connect the signal you want to the _on_player_died function

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what's the script with _on_player_died on?

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:27 PM

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snail.gd

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:28 PM

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alright, then go to the snail scene and connect the signal to the function (in the 'node' tab)

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:28 PM

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its connected, i think?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:29 PM

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does the method have an arrow icon next to it

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like this

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:30 PM

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on the signals tab it does but i dont see it on the script itself

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:30 PM

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did you connect it to the right method?

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:30 PM

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oh now it does-

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:30 PM

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should work now then

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:30 PM

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wait-

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OH

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the target???

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:31 PM

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what target?

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:31 PM

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arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:32 PM

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that's saying that this method (_on_body_entered, which isn't the _on_player_died method) has a body_entered signal connected to it from the source Snail area2d to a target Snail area2d (they're the same node)

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you connected it to a different method it looks like

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:33 PM

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where is it meant to be??

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:33 PM

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what function do you want to get called when a body enters the area?

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:33 PM

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on_player_died

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:33 PM

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then connect it to that function

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there's a little pencil icon you can press to select a method when connecting it iirc

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:37 PM

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where do i find that?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:38 PM

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when you're connecting the signal

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:38 PM

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this?

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what do i do??

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:43 PM

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misty tartan

yeah, the pick button

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it lets you select a method from the scirpt

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:43 PM

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ok....

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arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:44 PM

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well

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what do you think you need to do here?

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:44 PM

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idk???

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:45 PM

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what method do you want to connect the signal to

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select that method

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:45 PM

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on_player_died?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:45 PM

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yeah

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:47 PM

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this then popped up

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:48 PM

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what are you doing in the _on_body_entered bit?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:50 PM

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misty tartan

why are you connecting the player_died signal?

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:50 PM

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huh?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:50 PM

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you want the body_entered signal to call _on_player_died

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:50 PM

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oh

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:50 PM

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which then calls die on the body

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:52 PM

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this one?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:52 PM

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yeah

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now select the _on_player_died method

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:53 PM

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ah huh?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:53 PM

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in the pick menu

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though it might not show it if it doesn't have a body param? not sure

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but you'll have to add it anyways

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:57 PM

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arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:57 PM

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yeah

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choose the method you need

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:58 PM

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which is the last one?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:58 PM

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well yeah

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 1:59 PM

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this popped up

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 1:59 PM

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yeah now just call the die method on body if it's the player

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and you don't even need the _on_body_entered function

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 2:00 PM

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what do i put under "func _on_player_died(body: Node2D) -> void:"?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 2:02 PM

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well whatever was there at the start

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 2:02 PM

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do i just get rid of the "func _on_body_entered(body: Node2D) -> void:" above that??

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 2:03 PM

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yeah

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 2:03 PM

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now what??

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 2:03 PM

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now run it

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 2:03 PM

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i did

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 2:04 PM

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so what happened?

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 2:04 PM

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nothings happening

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 2:04 PM

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did you put anything on _on_player_died

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 2:05 PM

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how do i check that?

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 2:05 PM

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by looking at it???

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 2:05 PM

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arctic gull May 9, 2026, 2:06 PM

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what's in the _on_player_died function

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 2:07 PM

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arctic gull May 9, 2026, 2:07 PM

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that's not what i asked

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 2:08 PM

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ah-

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where do i check??

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 2:08 PM

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look at the function...

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 2:09 PM

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"if body.name == "Player":"
"emit_signal("player_died", body)"

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 2:09 PM

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uh

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what do you think this is doing?

misty tartan May 9, 2026, 2:10 PM

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no clue

arctic gull May 9, 2026, 2:10 PM

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then why did you write it

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think about what you actually want the function to do

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