get_node: node not found

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I'm using a scene to act as a scene changer, but in its script, it's unable to find it's child nodes.

My structure is like so:

SceneChanger 
   -Control
        -blackRect
   -AnimationPlayer

The two lines of code i use are 

onready var animation_player = get_node("AnimationPlayer")
onready var black = get_node("Control/blackRect")

Without fail, they result in a get_node: "node not found" error. This doesnt crash the program, but when I try to call them later, the null pointer does.
I have tried:

get_node("root/SceneChanger/...")
$AnimationPlayer
self.get_node("..")
in Engine by (12 points)

Is this an autoload? Did you autoload the scene or just the script? If you autoload the script, it has no child nodes, so this situation will occur.

by (22,191 points)

Yes, it is an autoload, and I was loading the script not the scene..... I should've seen that. Thanks for the help, much appreciated!!

by (12 points)

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