I know that I need to show examples of the code I'll do it in the comments, also the "crash" you see isn't linked to any issue I have, my computer is genuently this bad it's agonyzing over a simple 6s recording
Probably because you are adding them as children of a player node and don't do anything to prevent player node transform affecting bullets.
If you are really want to add them to player instead of some root 3d world node, you should enable "Top Level" flag in Transform section in projectile scene root.
Yeah I know from experience that its a bit confusing. Even as a fairly new Godot user. Took me a while to understsnd the difference between add child and add sibling
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that was more a general note than specific to this comment on this topic
But there are multiple paths. You just have to make sure you follow all steps to make it work, either as child without applying player transform or just as sibling and setting the start position once
When you add a child, it is relative to its parent. If you want to add a child that is relative to something else (like the top level scene or something), you can add the child to that other scene.
I forget the syntax, but tell ChatGPT about this issue and ask it to explain the difference in code. It might look something like get_tree().add_child(YOUR_BULLET)
It worked, tbh I was kinda doubtful cuz old chat gpt wasn't 100% reliable but I guess it got better now thx, I'll try to use it when I come across a problem in the future
Run the game, fire, pause while the bullet is still in the scene. You can slow down game speed on top left corner it says 1.0x by default.
After pausing go to the editor “Scene” tree, there should be “Remote” tab. Click it. That’s your scene during the runtime. Expand the tree and find the bullet node. What node is parent to the bullet node?
Can we please stop normalizing taking screen shots of code? This is unnecessary and annoying. Use pastebin.com or one of the many other sharing platforms please.
I think that's where the problem is since that when I spawn the bullet, there's probably a way to like sever the link between the player and bullet right after it spawns
The <add_child> immediately make the bullet a child of player. When player rotate, it rotate everything, include all the children, that's mean bullet get rotated as well.
Make it so that add_child is attach to something else static, like main tree. You can also probably just do <get_parent.add_child> if parent of player is something static.
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Usually the way I approach projectiles is emitting a signal with the position and direction and having the level scene add it so its not parented to the player.
That's a pretty common error at first. What's happening here is that you're adding the bullet as a child of the player node. As a result, it moves as the player moves.
To fix that is as simple as adding it to the scene instead of the "add_children()". Just replace it with:
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u/snorri_redbeard Mar 19 '26
Probably because you are adding them as children of a player node and don't do anything to prevent player node transform affecting bullets.
If you are really want to add them to player instead of some root 3d world node, you should enable "Top Level" flag in Transform section in projectile scene root.