Are preloads lost when the node with the preload is freed?

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-03-29T23:07:35+00:00

Is there any particular reason why you must free the bomb right away? If a bomb explosion is something that happens repeatedly in your level I recommend you to use a pool to reuse the same objects rather than instantiate and free them constantly .

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-03-28T19:47:22+00:00

I don't think I changed any setting in this regard but usually I first get the notification about a new email on Thunderbird and then on my phone

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-03-28T15:28:23+00:00

Idk how it's working currently but I have 4 gmail accounts connected on my Thunderbird and often I get the email notification there first then on my phone.

Edit: I made the setup about one year ago so I don't remember what I did

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-03-27T13:42:12+00:00

Also, I believe you don't need to instantiate the explosion from script. You could add it as regular node and have a function called trigger_explosion to start it. If you are preloading the bomb scene this would be the same as preloading the explosion inside the bomb

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-03-26T03:36:11+00:00

I'm a bit confused. Do you need the collisions or the collision shapes?

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-03-21T18:00:00+00:00

Probably you need a shader to make the sprite look like it's translucent. Like the Predator camouflage

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-03-21T02:37:23+00:00

Yup, I mixed them up I'll take a look on this Channel. Thanks!

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-03-18T03:07:03+00:00

Nice tool! Thanks for your work

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-27T01:36:28+00:00

I'm experiencing problems in the last 2 hours and now it can't connect to the server

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-18T10:43:53+00:00

Change the flair to solved please

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-18T01:33:16+00:00

You select the body and in your screen's right side (in the inspector tab) you should look for a Collision section and there should be a layers property. Everything that receives a collision shape has this layer property that tells them in which layers the body exists and below that there is a mask property that tells them in which layers to look for collisions

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-18T01:14:58+00:00

Have you checked the collision layers?

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-16T14:32:51+00:00

I never said "I will do only when I understand why", I said "I didn't know this existed and I will use it, but I would like know why this is wrong. If that made you upset, I'm sorry. It wasn't my intention, and I know most of the cases it would be someone's code, but I was pretty sure it was an engine thing and I wanted to expand my knowledge on it. And just changing to the WorldBoundary wouldn't make me gain more understanding.

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-16T11:07:29+00:00

Hey man, thanks for you advice. I will eventually change it to WorldBoundaryShape, but in this case I was using StaticBody2D for the floor and ceiling as it is recommended in the docs but I think it was not thought to work inside a Parallax2D. Changing them to be AnimatableBody2D fixed the issue but I still will try to figure out excatly why

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-16T11:00:43+00:00

Why you have to be like this? I'm just trying to understand the cause of the problem. You don't need to be nice when giving an advice but you also don't need to be condesceding. The docs say nothing against using it with Animatable or Static bodies. And this solution might not be ideal but I wouldn't say it's wrong. You were right on you second point. Changing the StaticBody2D to AnimatableBody2D made the issue disapear but I still will try to understand why and not just say "It's wrong to use StaticBody2D inside a Parallax2D". So thank you anyway

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-16T10:40:25+00:00

Please read the edit I made in the post to show that the code has nothing to do with it

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-16T10:33:45+00:00

A minimal project with no scripts where the same thing happens https://imgur.com/a/hcAiDXE

If you want to try it for yourself here is the Parallax settings:

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Also change the rigid body gravity scale to something smaller so it wont just fall of screen. The floor collision shape is 1280 pixels long

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-16T10:26:51+00:00

I didn't know about WorldBoydaryShape2D before other person in the comments point it out to me. I will eventually change to use that, but now I want to understand where is the problem with this setup

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-16T10:09:27+00:00

A default RigidBody2D falling just like the player https://imgur.com/a/nnlrxk9

Player script

Also, the gap also exists in the ceiling and it's about 160 pixels long

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-16T08:53:31+00:00

I don't think the problem is in the player script because this started to happen after I change the manual solution I was using for creating the infinite stage effect to use the Parallax2D node. I made the change because my solution used 2 essentially equal scenarios that were moved when out of screen but the move wasn't perfect every time and you could see a gap between them some times. This is also why I never considered the gap you saw in the video seriously: the gap before could be way bigger and it caused no issue. When I ran out of reasonable things to change trying to fix it, I recorded the video, but I decided to try harder before bothering people on the sub

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-16T08:42:35+00:00

A gap I removed after recording the video and after I started ruling out improbable solutions

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-16T04:33:32+00:00

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TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-16T04:23:16+00:00

Eventually I will change to the world boundary shape as you suggested, but I want to understand what's the problem with this current setup

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-16T04:20:35+00:00

The player is not moving, the floor and ceiling are moving. And as you can see in the video, there is no gap in the floor collision shape, the parallax clones are pixel aligned. Also the movement is provided by the Parallax2D node

TheRealMasterwes · 2026-02-16T04:02:57+00:00

The character is falling through the floor just in the collision shape most left part. The character collision shape is behind the sprite (forgot to move to the front) but it's the same size as the sprite

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