How to make menus?

[The-Enazer]

hello it's me again the guy of the data select. i come again for another question. How to make a menu? (I tried to make it but dont work) Plz help (sorry for the bad english)

[r6915ee]

Most of it should conduct of the same techniques you would use to make a regular menu in Godot. As for some of the specific things that Worlds Next provides, you can make the menus change to other menus and the game as you normally would.

[The-Enazer]

[The-Enazer]

lmao

[The-Enazer]

(note: sorry if the code is bad i am no the best in gdscript)

[r6915ee]

If what I'm getting at here is right, the script is actually trying to load a simple resource instead of a scene, so technically your code should be working - just not in the way you intended. Resources and nodes (which scenes are a type of the latter) are fundamentally different in how they work: a resource is essentially a basic object that can have properties, while nodes are objects that can have "children" to form a basic hierarchy system, commonly using resources to specify certain properties or have their own properties.

There's a particular class in Godot, SceneTree, that handles the hierarchy of nodes. It usually is referenced by using the get_tree() method from any node. It also has two methods/functions specifically for switching scenes that help simplify the process: change_scene_to_file() and change_scene_to_packed(). The former switches the scene to a specified file, which should be what you want, while the latter switches it to a specified PackedScene, which is essentially a copy of a specified scene within the project that can be loaded with either preload() or load(). PackedScenes, to my knowledge, are also used when you add a reusable scene file to the current scene's hierarchy - usually by the editor (in which you can drag the specified scene file into either a specific position on the viewport, or into the hierarchy to make it a child of another node), or by script, in which the PackedScene has to be regularly instantiated and then added in as a child to any node to actually make it have an effect on most of the game's elements. A PackedScene is essentially a resource due to it usually having a value that can be retrieved by preload() or load(), depending on the current scenario the PackedScene is used in.

I would instead write the twelfth line with that logic like this:

get_tree().change_scene_to_file("res://Scene/Presentation/CharacterSelect.tscn")

This gets the SceneTree currently running (which is referenced to by get_tree()) and calls the change_scene_to_file() method, with the parameter being the path to the character selection screen in the image you provided.

You can also use the nextScene property specified in your script in place of the file path, since that is specified in your script. In this case, we can instead use change_scene_to_packed() for this purpose, since the operation you use to retrieve the scene is used through load() with a path to a scene making it a PackedScene:

get_tree().change_scene_to_packed(nextScene)

TL;DR, the method used in your original script is for resources instead of a scene. To switch to a scene, use get_tree().change_scene_to_file("<filepath>") or get_tree().change_scene_to_packed(<packedscene>), depending on your use case.