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Wurzelpilz
I need a random timer… I have not much clue about gdscript, so I watched a tutorial and this came up… first issue was the connect, I changed it to timeout.connect(init_rand()) … no clue if that works, can’t test it because I’m stuck at issue 2
I don’t know what this is suppose to do but I get an error on this:
.start()
→ Error: Expected statement, found “.” instead.
Line 10:The function signature doesn’t match the parent. Parent signature is “start(float = ) → void”.
Line 10:The method “start” overrides a method from native class “Timer”. This won’t be called by the engine and may not work as expected. (Warning treated as error.)
Wurzelpilz | 2023-04-27 22:43
Whoops, it looks like your overriding method also has the wrong signature. Your start function should be start(time_sec = -1) and thus the third line should be super(time_sec)
TRAILtheGREAT | 2023-04-27 22:50
This leads to:
The method “start” overrides a method from native class “Timer”. This won’t be called by the engine and may not work as expected. (Warning treated as error.)
Thanks for your time anyway I simply integrated it into my spawn script… that’s simpler I guess.
extends Node2D
@export var enemy : PackedScene
var random = RandomNumberGenerator.new()
var timer = Timer.new()
func _ready():
random.randomize()
timer.timeout.connect(_on_timer_timeout)
add_child(timer) #to process
timer.set_wait_time(random.randf_range(1, 300))
timer.start() #to start
func _on_timer_timeout():
print("spawn")
var e = enemy.instantiate()
add_child(e)
timer.set_wait_time(random.randf_range(1, 5))
