How to play an animation from one script to another

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How to play an animation from one script to another

JayBanana

I'd like to know how to play an animation that is in another Scene/Script.
In other words, I have multiple springs for a Player to launch from.

Scene Tree example:

MainLevel
.....Player
.....Springs
...........Spring1
...........Spring2
...........Spring3
...........Spring4

The Spring script can play it's animation with:

$AnimatedSprite.play("SpringBounce")

I can't Hard Reference each node in the Scene, I need a way to trigger the animation in the main Spring script from the Player Script.

Thanks.

spacecloud

It might be better to call the player from the spring, something like this

# In a script on the springs
# Signal from self, connected in editor
func _on_body_entered(body):
    if body.name == "Player":
        body.do_thing()
        $AnimatedSprite.play("SpringBounce")

(this assumes that the springs are Areas)