Connecting a Timer node automatically to a newly created instance

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Connecting a Timer node automatically to a newly created instance

KiwoTez

I have a root node with a timer as a child. I wrote a GDScript code that adds new instances of a scene to this root as children. However, I need the newly added children to recieve the timeout signal emitted by the timer node. How can I connect them to the timer as soon as they enter the root scene?

The tree organization is as follows:

-Root ---Timer ---...(children are added here) ---... ---...

Zappo_II

Hint: Connect the Signal of the Timer to a function inside your Scene Instances... https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/getting_started/scripting/gdscript/gdscript_basics.html?highlight=connect%20signal#signals Have your scenes implement something like func _on_root_timer_timeout(): connect your timer signal after you add your scene instance... Something like $"Timer".connect("timeout", yourNewSceneInstance, "_on_root_timer_timeout") if you want to do this absolutely dynamically, asynchronously from creating and adding the instances of your Scenes you might want to look into the tree_changed() or node_added() event description in the docs...

Suggestion: Put an Empty Node into your Root, call it my_scenes (or apropriate) and add your new instances to thar one... You can then easily iterate over the children of that node... * same for groups...