Freeing Many Nodes At Once
If you run into the problem of your game crashing when freeing a large amount (100s) of nodes at once, that is, trying to run something like:
here is a workaround that might work.
Batched queue_free()¶
The idea here is instead of freeing all of the nodes at once, only free some of them per tick:
const MAX_NODE_DELETIONS = 5
var nodes_queued_for_deletion := []
func free_nodes():
# add all nodes you want to delete here
for node in get_tree().get_nodes_in_group("group"):
nodes_queued_for_deletion.append(node)
func _physics_process(_delta):
# free batches of nodes at a time here
for node in nodes_queued_for_deletion.slice(0, MAX_NODE_DELETIONS):
if is_instance_valid(node): bullet.queue_free()
nodes_queued_for_deletion = nodes_queued_for_deletion.slice(MAX_NODE_DELETIONS)