find_child method doesn't find a child by name after changing it's parent

[Voaz]

find_child method doesn't find a child by name after changing it's parent

[AThousandShips]

The owner is reset on changing the parent, everything works as designed, so it's something to discuss as a proposal for changing behaviour, not something that's broken or a bug, see here, if you want the owner to be preserved use reparent instead

[AThousandShips]

Does it work with find_children("Head", "", true, false)?

[Voaz]

find_child("Head", "", true, false) says too many arguments, but it works like this (I suppose that what you meant to check): find_child("Head", true, false)

[AThousandShips]

Meant find_children my bad, but yes find_child("Head", true, false)

[Voaz]

got it, I checked also other variants:
find_child("Head", false, false) - works
find_child("Head", true, false) - works
find_child("Head", true, true) - doesn't
find_children("Head", "", false, true) - doesn't
find_children("Head", "", false, false) - works

[AThousandShips]

Then it's expected, you haven't set the owner, the last argument filters only for owned nodes:

If owned is true, only descendants with a valid owner node are checked.

[Voaz]

I see, thank you very much @AThousandShips !
IMO: I have to say that it's counterintuitive. I never before was setting owner and it's unclear why it's true by default in find_child.
it is very contradicting when you clearly see it in the tree but find_child gives you null result nevertheless it IS still a child and it is in the tree but the owner is not set...
if so player.get_children() should also give null result and have a owned argument otherwise it's misleading.

[AThousandShips]

Please open a proposal for that, this is not a bug, but the argument can't be changed to false by default without breaking compatibility so won't happen in 4.x I'd say

[Voaz]

I believe needs to be reopen because the behavior is inconsistent. it's not only about find_child but the whole chain of actions.
if I do the same find_child before changing it's parent - it works. but if I change the parent and then return back to original parent - it doesn't work.