Dumb question about instancing

[mccrae-ben]

I feel like I'm overthinking instancing with Pandora but wanted to ask if this seemed like a viable strategy for using Pandora in a crafting survival prototype or if I'm missing something obvious:

1. Create an Entity like (Item -> Food -> Strawberry)
2. "Item" would have a Resource property for a generic food template scene (that scene would have a collision detection, Sprite2D etc)
3. In a Spawner class I would instantiate the PackedScene from the PandoraEntity and use the Entity's data to populate the instantiated scene

So something like this:

extends Node2D
class_name EntitySpawner

@export var entity:PandoraEntity

var strawberry_entity:PandoraEntity

func spawn_entity():
   # create a new instance of this entity
   var strawbery_instance = strawberry_entity.get_resource("SceneTemplate").instantiate() as PackedScene
   strawbery_instance.set_up_template_scene(strawberry_entity)

   ## set_up_template_scene loops through data stored in the PandoraEntity and assigns it to variables in the template scene such as Sprite2D, health etc...

[bitbrain]

I do something similar in my game:

"WorldItem" is a physics object that can be dropped into any 2D scene. It exports a PandoraEntity which controls its attributes like appearance, stats, effects etc.

When the player walks close to it, it has logic to add itself to the player's inventory. Inventory then accepts "Item" and it all works perfectly. "Item" is the model representation.

This allows you to base internally everything on Pandora models but then you can interface it with Godot nodes like physics objects by wrapping it (Decorator Pattern)