All scenes and nodes return Nil

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sahildoesstuff

This is my onready variable for my boss health bar, it is inside 'World.gd'

onready var BossBar = get_node("/root/World/GUI/CanvasLayer/BossHealth")

This is my function, calling show()

BossBar.show()

For some reason, when I get to this line, and try to use the function, it says:

"Invalid call. Nonexistent function 'show' on base 'Nil'".

My ProgressBar node is in my scene tree. Why does this happen?

AspireMint

sahildoesstuff
Can you call BossBar.show() inside of _ready function and see if same error appears?
You can get nil value if you try to call BossBar.show() inside of _init function.

DaveTheCoder

Add before that line:
print_tree()

And check the output to see if that node path is correct for the scene tree.

sahildoesstuff

DaveTheCoder I can’t print the tree of BossBar. I’m getting the same error.

DaveTheCoder

Use this instead, to print the entire scene tree:
get_tree().get_root().print_tree()

sahildoesstuff

So using get_root() on the scene tree returned the same error, however, using: ‘get_node(“/root/“).print_tree()’ I found the path, and it matched up with my path…

DaveTheCoder

What version of Godot are you using?

sahildoesstuff

DaveTheCoder 3.5.1 Stable MacOS

cybereality

You can click the Remote tab on the left when the game is playing. Likely the tree is not what you think, or you misspelled something.

sahildoesstuff

AspireMint Using it in the ‘ready()’ function works! Using it in the ‘physics_process()’ function also works. However, using it in my function, ‘boss_start()’ does not.

AspireMint

sahildoesstuff
Probably BossHealth isn't "ready" - in your node tree, put breakpoint to your line BossBar.show() and do what cybereality suggest you to do. See what is at that moment in node tree.

sahildoesstuff

AspireMint Everything looks fine, it is a child of CanvasLayer, GUI, and World. The path matches up. But, instead of using get_node() I saved the boss health node as a scene, and then I made a singleton for boss_health and called the show() function on the auto-loaded singleton. This might not be the best way to do this, but it worked. Not sure why...

Thanks for everybody's help.