[8] Let's Make a Godot Space Shooter: Bullet Firing Positions

We make a system to define our ship's gun positions, and fire bullets from each of those locations. Let’s Make a Godot Space Shooter together - a series covering basic Godot concepts and workflows to create a full PC, mobile, and controller-supported game!
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[@Dustgfx]

Amazing.. Exactly what i needed!

[@oricraft3368]

Thanking u I am putting all the your videos into my game

[@Dustgfx]

Any idea on how to apply somesort of recoil to the ship while shooting? (Using KinematicBody2d)

[@Stiner75]

Unfortunately, in 2024, this is where this tutorial series falls apart for me. No matter what I try, every reference to the @onready variable at the top is always null, in one way or another. Written exactly as the tutorial suggests, I get the error "Cannot call method 'get_children' on a null value." (the game crashes and points at the line with the "for" loop as the problem.) I read the code and it makes sense to me, but not to the interpreter, apparently. If anyone has any insight on how this will work on Godot 4, please enlighten me. Googling this error hasn't helped much either... (SEE EDIT BELOW!)
It turns out I was somehow editing a second instance of the Player node. Not sure how I got into that situation, nor how I actually fixed it, but I think it might have something to do with "local" vs "remote." Just in case anyone else following this guide runs into the same issue I did.

[@whatsthislmaoo]

it does more harm than good to do a bad example first then correct it ages later. I'm sorry but that's not a good way to teach, its been so frustrating to follow this guide. Just show us the right way and that's it, i don't understand why teach the wrong way, it's taking up time and space in our brain.
I'll finish this guide but honestly I'm trying not to lose will :)

[@whatsthislmaoo]

Actually nah, I'll just search for a guide that respects my time.

[@gofudgeyourselves9024]

Instead of global_position use something like this
bullet.position = child.position
add_child(bullet)

[@longthuong6764]

but that will make the bullet line up even you moving around

[@jeretas7200]

thanks you saved me