What is the best way to access global variables?

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What is the best way to access global variables?

maastahraik

Hello

I'm new at GDScript, and i'm a java developer. Just began working with godot and decided to go on with GDScript. I'm coding a shoot em up game and need some help about scene management. I don't really understand how to manage the tree neither how to call global variables (such as global score etc...).

What's the best way to do so? Declare it in the main scene and call it from the children nodes? Or is there a way to send data from a node to another? I've read the documentations but the examples are almost too simple for what i want to do.

Thank you for your help

arthur

Take a look at Singletons. They are persistent through game execution. Also, you can access nodes' public variables (or even functions) from another node, like this: var value = $node/path/at/scene.value (supposing value is your variable name)

duke_meister

A bit late now, but if you're a Java developer, why not try Godot with C#? Being much closer to Java. Only problem is, no debugging ...

Attach a C# script to Nodes then they are just classes to you.