timer.start() not working

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theformerglitch

I'm trying to put a delay on switching my scene to the next, at first I tried yield but when the scene switches the engine outputs a lot of errors saying the function couldn't resume after the yield because it's gone (still switches tho). When I switch that out for a timer node that starts when the scene should switch and the in the time out switch scene nothing happens. I also tried instancing a new timer at the point of the switch but nothing happened there either.

dotted

What node is the timer a child of? And is the script attached to a node that is part of the deleted scene?

I suspect your timer or yield was trying to work on script that was part of the swapped scene. I have some projects that assemble the active scene from a landscape (loaded) and several random elements (loaded) + a player character (also loaded)

All these exist in a session node responsible for loading and unloading the parts. The session node persists for the duration of the engine's run and parts are swapped in and out.

theformerglitch

@dotted well it's at the top of the scene (lvl1.tscn) and that tells the engine to swap to lvl2.tscn

dotted

right but if the elements are child nodes in your scene, they are destroyed when the scene is changed. that's the trick

cybereality

Are you sure the timer is working? Have you tried putting a print statement there to check?