I'm making an enemy in my game that teleports the player back to the start of the level on contact.
Note: the player has a reference of itself stored in an auto-loaded singleton, called singleton. This is used throughout the game with no issue so far.
When the code the enemy uses is singleton.player.global_position = start_position, the screen flashes briefly (possibly because the camera follows the player to the starting position of the level) and then the player is right back to where it was before--the place where it made contact with the enemy.
However, this problem doesn't happen when I use this psychotic work around:
singleton.player.global_position *= 0
singleton.player.global_position += start_position
#this code teleports the player to the starting position with no problems at all.
Also, after some debugging, I found that setting the position in a _process() function will also work:
#in enemy:
func _process():
#touching_player is set to true when the body enters the area
if touching_player:
singleton.player.global_position = start_position #this works
touching_player = false
Some things worth noting:
-Game is 2D
-Player is a rigidBody2D with code that changes its linear velocity for movement
-Enemy is an area2D, it sends a signal to itself for "body_entered", and if the body entered is the player, it does the teleport
Since these work-arounds exist, I guess this is less of a question on what I should do to solve the problem than a bug report of a sort. It'd give me peace of mind if someone can explain why the engine is behaving like this.
