Post #67: Pausing the Scene Tree

30 Jul, 2026

Today I continued through the tutorial more. One thing I learned about is how you can pause the entire scene tree:

get_tree().paused = true

Some notes and links to the docs...

• The get_tree() function is defined here, on the Node class
• The above function returns a SceneTree (link)
• On the SceneTree, you can set the member value paused to true (link)
• This has the side effects mentioned in the docs, which are the following:
  • 2D and 3D physics will be stopped, as well as collision detection and related signals.
  • Depending on each node's Node.process_mode, their Node._process(), Node._physics_process() and Node._input() callback methods may not called anymore.