Make child visible while parent invisible

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Make child visible while parent invisible

GE100

Is it possible to make a child of an invisible Node2D visible, independent of the parent?

cybereality

Not that I know of.

Tomcat

The simplest is to introduce an additional parent node and/or hide not the entire parent scene, but only the objects in it.

vmjcv

maybe you can use self_modulate to set the parent visibility.
like this:
parent.visible = false == parent.self_modulate.a = 0.0

DaveTheCoder

vmjcv maybe you can use self_modulate to set the parent visibility.
like this:
parent.visible = false == parent.self_modulate.a = 0.0

I think that should be:

parent.visible = true
parent.self_modulate.a = 0.0

If parent.visible is false, then the child will not be visible.

cybereality

Can you explain more about what you are doing? This seems like a strange use case. Meaning, logically, if the 2 Nodes should be independent (in respect to the visibility) then it doesn't make sense that they have a parent child relationship.

vmjcv

DaveTheCoder
I mean if he controls the visibility of the parent node through parent.visible.
Then he can be equivalently replaced with parent.self_modulate

newmodels

You can use an empty parent, except for the child node. Or, you can disable the visibility of any geometry of the parent.