My Godot Global variable is not updating

Question

Hi there, thanks for checking out my question.

In my game I am using a global script. It currently has 2 variables.
1st var Keeps track of the player's healthpoints. (This works correctly)
2nd var uses bool to keep track of whether or not the player is facing right.

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My player's direction variable(inside the player script) updates correctly when I press left or right (while not pressing melee).
But the global Facingright variable's true/false state does not change.
As the console keeps printing that the player is facing right. Never left.

I'm just confused as I can't find the reason why the global script won't update.

Answer 1

mistake of reference. You created var gfacingright and assigned it a value of Global.Facingright. But they are two different variables. Changing gfacingright does not change Global.facingright. You have to reference directly Global.facingright

Comments

Thank you so much. For some reason I was not understanding how to reference it properly. I think I understand now.

For simple example, my coins.

I had my Coins amount in GameManager(Which is set as my only global script).
Within GameManager I had var Coins = 0

Separately, in my actual Coin script, I had
var gCoins = GameManager.Coins

When a body enters the area2d collision. The coin script plays an animation, followed by the next line which is gCoins = gCoins + 1
But the amount in the GameManager did not update.

To correctly reference the Coins variable within my GameManager script from the coin script..That means I have to refer to it directly as GameManager.Coins rather than trying to shortcut by assigning a variable such as gCoins?

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To correctly reference the Coins variable within my GameManager script from the coin script..That means I have to refer to it directly as GameManager.Coins rather than trying to shortcut by assigning a variable such as gCoins?

exactly. Shortcuts like these only work for referencing nodes, arrays, dictionaries, and some miscellanous types. So :

var a = get_node("something")
var b = a

b.moveandcollide() # will work as shortcut, it will affect the real "something" node

var a = {"apple" : 2, "banana" : 4 }
var b = a

b["pineapple"] = 4 # this works as a shortcut too, it also will affect real dictionary var a

var a = 9
var b = a

b += 10 # this will not work as shortcut, var a will stay 9 and var b will become 19

Editor help often proveides information, whether type is passed as a value or just a reference. Being passed as a reference means it works as a shortcut

Answer 2

Basically when you type var gFacingright = GameManager.Facingright you assign a copy of GameManager.Facingright value to a new variable gFacingright. So now you have 2 variables with 2 values.

You don't need gFacingright. In your input instead of gFacingright = true it should be GameManager.Facingright = true.