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Node not found - can't tell why

jooscher

Hi everyone,

in my global.gd I am trying to call a node which is a direct child of my root-scene with the following code:

# Calculate the level based on the levels of the scene instances
	level = 0
	for i in range(1, 11):
		# Get the current scene instance
		var instance = get_node("scMain/player_" + str(i))

		# Add the level of the scene instance to the total level
		level += instance.level

Unfortunately it returns the following Error:

get_node: (Node not found: "scMain/player_1" (relative to "/root/global").)

Here my Scene-Structure

Where did I go wrong?
I am fairly new to Coding, so I please excuse if this is obvious.

Thanks already for evereyone helping!

cybereality

Click the Remote tab while the game is playing and look at the scene tree on the left. It's possible global and scMain are siblings, or something else, you will see.

jooscher

cybereality
Great Tip, they are indeed siblings!
Can you help me out as to how it should be?

EDIT: I figured global.gd should be a child of scMain - but I can't figure out how to move it there 🙁

AspireMint

jooscher
Correct me if I am wrong, autoload files are always in root node.
To get scMain node, use one of these:

var instance = get_tree().get_root().get_node("scMain")
var instance = get_tree().get_root().get_child(1) #if you know index(position)
var instance = get_tree().get_root().find_node("scMain", true, false)

jooscher

AspireMint
EDIT: IT WORKS!

Thanks for the reply!

You're right to mention that global.gd is autoloaded, apparently I should have mentioned that.
~~I tried your solutions but neither of them work 🙁~~

~~Also my Godot ( I am using Godot 3.5.1) doesn't suggest get_root as a possibility when I enter get_~~

DaveTheCoder

AspireMint Correct me if I am wrong, autoload files are always in root node.

Autoloaded nodes are children of the root node, and precede the other nodes in the scene tree.

Megalomaniak

jooscher Also my Godot ( I am using Godot 3.5.1) doesn't suggest get_root as a possibility when I enter get_

Are you trying to get_root() on it's own or are you trying to get_tree().get_root()?

jooscher

Megalomaniak
var instance = get_tree().get_root().get_node("scMain/player_" + str(i))

works! I was too silly earlier and had a typo in my "player_"

AspireMint

jooscher
Yay 🙂 but you are right, editor doesn't suggest get_root (in my 3.5.stable version), but root is property of SceneTree, and root getter is get_root. Weird.