Sibling node is nill?

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Reve

Ive gota hierarchy like this:

inside Blocks.gd init() function I'm trying to access VoxelTerrain like this:

var _terrain : VoxelTerrain = $"../VoxelTerrain"
_terrain.restart_stream()

but I'm getting that _terrain is null.

Ive also tried:
var _terrain : VoxelTerrain = $"VoxelTerrain"
and
var _terrain : VoxelTerrain = get_node("/root/Main/VoxelTerrain")

but its always null.
It it not initialized yet?

Megalomaniak

just to do with order of nodes and how scenes are initialized. You might want to implement some logic to check if a node instance is valid or perhaps to call deferred(delegating it to a later frame) the assignment or something.

duane

_init() is called when you create the object. At that point, the object isn't part of the scene tree, so references to other objects will not work. _ready() is called when the object joins the scene tree -- at that point some other objects will be available. However, child objects are initialized before their parent, so you may not have access to all objects even then. It's best to allow an object to interact with other objects when an event occurs (event-driven programming).