Godot engine: removing an instance of a scene without freeing the whole scene

Question

I’ve added multiple instances of a scene as enemies, and now I want to remove one of them when it dies. I tried using “queue_free()” on it, but this only works for one instance, and every instance afterwards doesn’t get removed and returns a “node not found” error. How do I just remove one instance at a time?

magenulcus magenulcus · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-13T20:26:21

Your question can't be easily answered because we don't know your specific code and there are multiple good ways to do this. As far as I understand you, you have an enemy class with some kind of health level. You could create a function that checks if the health is above zero or some other variable like alive. A very easy way would be like

func is_alive():
    if health > 0:
        return True
    else:
        queue_free()

You could call this function in every process cycle and also add some dying animation or counter later.

Godot engine: removing an instance of a scene without freeing the whole scene

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