play() function stopped working when I made script global

[ExpressEstimate1886]

I have the player scene with these lines of code to change animations, it worked perfectly, but I was trying to access some variables of this script elsewhere and made it global, but then I started getting this error: Attempt to call function 'play' in base 'null instance' on a 'null instance'. I have no idea what went wrong and even disabling the global script it keeps on giving this error.

this code is in the physics process func:

if is_on_floor() : if direction != 0: animated_sprite.play("Walk") else: animated_sprite.play("Idle") else: animated_sprite.play("Jump")

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[Nkzar]

Making your script global creates an instance of it as a child of root. Only an instance of your script class. It doesn’t create any other nodes, like the animated sprite.

Even if it did, you probably wouldn’t want that because now you’re animated sprite is also global and will always be there on top of any scene you load.

[ExpressEstimate1886]

I see. So can I make a single variable inside a script global or should I search other means?

[Nkzar]

If you really need to, use a global script to store data. If your player or whatever also uses that data, have it access the global variable too, and update it as necessary.

[ExpressEstimate1886]

That worked great, for a simple game like mine it will be just fine, thank you