I had a setup with nested CanvasLayer nodes. Toggling the visibility of the root CanvasLayer doesn’t hide any nested CanvasLayer nodes. My solution was to listen to the visibility_changed signal, find any CanvasLayer child nodes, and apply the same visibility to them.
func_ready() -> void:# If the visibility changes, apply it to any nested CanvasLayer nodes.visibility_changed.connect(func() -> void:find_children("*","CanvasLayer",true,false).map(func(node:CanvasLayer) -> void:node.visible=visible))
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Toggling Visibility of Nested CanvasLayers
I had a setup with nested CanvasLayer nodes. Toggling the visibility of the root CanvasLayer doesn’t hide any nested CanvasLayer nodes. My solution was to listen to the visibility_changed signal, find any CanvasLayer child nodes, and apply the same visibility to them.
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