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How do you remove objects if you don't queue free them? Just remove them from the tree?

• b33j0r 4y ago
  Yes, or they are free’d automatically as the parent is free’d recursively. If you have called `add_child` on a node you created dynamically, godot will handle its lifecycle from there. If you don’t add a dynamically-created node to the tree, you are responsible for `free`. That almost never comes up, because I eventually figure out how to decompose everything into a tree Node, or! A Resource. Resources are managed in a separate memory pool, and don’t need to be added to the tree for godot to take care of it. Go ahead, you just try and `free` a resource! ;)
  • tpxl 4y ago
    Damn, I didn't know that. Time to remove queue_free from my project :)
  • benjaminjackman 4y ago
    In the docs for Node.remove_child(Node node)[1] it says "Removes a child node. The node is NOT deleted and must be deleted manually." Do you still have to queue_free the top node that was removed from the tree, or else how is it being deleted. Or is there a different method to call for removing it from the tree. BTW: I really like the `_init` / `_enter_tree` / `_ready` / `_exit_tree` lifecycle as was described. 1:https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_node.html#class-node-method-remove-child https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_node.ht...
    • lewispollard 4y ago
      queue_free removes the node from the tree and frees it. remove_child just deactivates it, but keeps it around in memory for later.