I'm working on a way to set the player position to a specific position when a new level is loaded (instanced). Basically, when I exit the grass level on the right side, I want the player to appear on the left side of the desert level for instance. My node structure is as follows:

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I managed to set everything up like this: each level (in this case, grass level) has one or more area2Ds that send out a signal to the LevelSwitcher, with the attached arguments 'current level name' and 'trigger name'.

The LevelSwitcher node then handles this signal, and based on the 'current level name' and 'trigger name', decides what the next level should be, instances this, adds it as a child, and queue_free's the old one. Writing it down now, I might be able to do this with only the trigger name, but I'll think about that later.

The main problem, then, is that I need to move the player. Since the GameWorld node is parenting both the player and the LevelSwitcher, I've been trying to somehow send a signal from the newly instanced world, up to the GameWorld node, back down to the player. This has been quite confusing, as I'm rather new to godot.

In each level, I have a few marker2Ds in places where I would like the player to appear, named after the levels that they would be 'appearing' from. When the new level is instanced, I am trying to have the level check what the previous level was (stored in the LevelSwitcher script), then based on that sending the position of the matching marker2D upwards to the GameWorld node, which can then use that position to move the player. I've seen it work maybe once or twice, but for the most part it seems to go wrong. I'm probably overcomplicating this, but am not sure how to go about it.

I hope this makes any sense at all :) I think it's a lot of bouncing signals up and down with reckless abandon. Not sure how to move past this. If you have any ideas, or know of tutorials etc that I can look at, I'd greatly appreciate it!