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How to directly get Node instead of NodePath in export variable?

Instead of maintaining 2 separate variables for my exported node path, like this:

extends Node2D

export(NodePath) var target_path
var target_node

func _ready():
    target_node=get_node(target_path)

is there any way to export only 1 variable and directly get the node?

Solution

  • There is, and it's a one liner:

    extends Node2D
export (NodePath) onready var target_node=get_node(target_node)

    Turns out someone did it 2 years ago.