Allow passing variables to new scene using argument

[shak2]

Example: change_scene_to_file(SCENEFILE, arg1, arg2, ...)

Why not let users change scene to file with additional arg1 and arg 2 etc.?

Right now the recommendation is to use autoloads, which feels very hacky and messy.

Remember encapsulation.

Thoughts?

[AThousandShips]

Where would the arguments go? What method would be called and where?

[sairam4123]

Maybe we could simply build an association between scene and scripts. And when a new scene gets instantiated, a new function called _init_scene will be called with the argument passed when instantiating a scene.

Example:

PackedScene.instanciate(arg1, arg2)

# packed_scene.gd

func _init_scene(arg1, arg2):
    pass

[AThousandShips]

So what happens if the arguments don't match or there isn't such a method?

[dalexeev]

• Related: Make it possible to pass arguments to PackedScene.instance() #1513.