How do I create new things?

[zTech]

I am trying to use collection factories to create a new resource, and by following the guide, it told me to do

local tree = collectionfactory.create("treeFactory")

but when i run that i just get an error:
java.lang.AssertionError: Assert failed: Cycle detected on node type editor.collection/CollectionNode and output :build-targets
(not (contains? (:in-production evaluation-context) [node-id label]))

how am I supposed to use collection factories to make multiple of an object without just copy and pasting?

[britzl]

My guess is that the collection that contains the collectionfactory is also the collection referenced by the collection factory itself.

[zTech]

I personally feel as if my issue is that I don’t even understand how collection factories work. All the manual told me is to use that line, but I don’t understand anything on collection factories. Is there some sort of better guide that can teach me how to use them?

[britzl]

A factory or collection factory component is used to create an instance of a game object or a group of game objects (a collection).

Collections are explained here:

The building blocks of Defold

And the collection factory component here:

Collection factory manual