How to move my node localy with taking in account of rotation?

quickmind2020

So I want to move my node on the screen. It looks at the mouse cursor and what I want to do is have the node move forward towards the mouse when I press the "W" key.

So right now I have a KinematicBody2D node with a move function. like so below: if Input.is_key_pressed(KEY_W): move(Vector2(1,0))
This only moves me upwards on the screen. I just need to now how to apply that movement to account rotation.

TwistedTwigleg

Here is how I handled moving forward based on rotation:

var SPEED = 200

func _fixed_process(delta):
		var current_rotation = get_rot()
		translate(Vector2(sin(current_rotation), cos(current_rotation)) * SPEED * delta)

NOTE: I used this for a top-down shooter prototype where the main character's sprite was flipped on the Y-axis. Because of that, sine and cosine might need to be swapped in your case.

Changing it to work with a KinematicBody2D (not tested):

if Input.is_key_pressed(KEY_W):
		var current_rotation = get_rot()
		var direction_vector = Vector2(1, 0)
		move (Vector2(sin(current_rotation), cos(current_rotation)) * direction_vector

quickmind2020

Thanks for the help... I knew that I needed to use sin and cos but I didn't know how to go about making them work. XD