so in my game, I have a flare weapon which I want to act as a light source when it collides with the mouse position, to clarify i mean where the mouse was positioned when the player fired the flare, so ideally, it would travel until it hit where the player had targeted it and I would from there be able to swap out a flare object in its place.
I've tried a lot of different methods but the one that's been the closest, is the method where when I fire I spawn a crosshair indicator showing i fired at that spot, but at the center of the crosshair there is a collision stored on it or an area2d, so when the flare hits the center of the crosshair, it can detect its hit a "block" and it can do all the things i mentioned above
I've gotten most aspects of this to work, the only thing not working is the detection for deleting the bullet as when it collides it comes to a stop and stays there until the timer i have set deletes it which is way too long. the bullet and crosshair are completely different scenes btw, as well as different codes, any ideas?