Node Paths

Part of the Nodes and Scenes section of Coddy's Godot journey. Lesson 20 of 27.

In this scene the eyes sit deeper in the tree. Face is a child of Robot, Eyes is a child of Face, and the two eyes are children of Eyes.

$Eyes finds nothing now, because Eyes is a grandchild of the robot. To reach it, write a path: the names on the way down, with a / between them.

get_node("Face/Mouth").position.y += 2
$Face/Mouth.position.y += 2   # the same, shorter

get_node() takes the path as text. $ is a shorter way to write it. A wrong path stops the game with Node not found.

Challenge

Easy

Make the robot look up and to the left. When the game starts, use get_node() to set the position of Face/Eyes to Vector2(-4, -3). Both eyes move with it. The face and the mouth stay put.

Try it yourself