Name of Instanced Bullets

Question

I instance Bullets. Then I want that a enemy prints HIT if a bullet hits him. This I want to do with

func _on_Area2d_body_entered(body):
         if body.get_name == "Bullet"
             print("HIT")

But the problem is, that the name of the Instanced Bullet is something like @[email protected] and not just Bullet. How can I fix that?

Answer 1

A better way to do this is to use groups. When you create a bullet, add it to a group called bullets by doing something like:

bullet.add_to_group("bullets")

or by having the add_to_group("bullets") line in the _ready() function of the bullets script.

Then change your code to something like

func _on_Area2d_body_entered(body):
     if body.is_in_group("bullets"):
         print("HIT")

You can read more about groups here:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/getting_started/step_by_step/scripting_continued.html#groups

Comments

Thank you very much!