**How to make a player(kinematicbody2D) move based on rotated direction**

How to make a player(kinematicbody2D) move based on rotated direction

Ebenezer

Hello guys, I just have a little problem due to lack of experience in Godot. I am new to Godot. The problem occurred while I was making a 2D game in Godot. For the game, the camera is viewing from the sky downwards to the ground. My player (which is a kinematicbody2D) is viewed from the head position holding a gun.

The direction button up is used to make the player move forward while the down button is used to move the player backward. The right button is to rotate the player right and the left button is to rotate the player left.

I have no idea on how to make the player move forward according to the direction his head his facing and backward according to the direction his head is not facing while using gdscript.

If you can help me out on this I would be grateful.

TwistedTwigleg

If I understand what you are looking for, you can convert the rotation to a vector, and then use this vector to move the player relative to their rotation. Writing this from memory, but I think the code would look something like this:

# Rotate the player. We want to do this before calculating the direction
# so the latest changes are taken into account
if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_right"):
	rotation += rotate_speed * delta;
if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left"):
	rotation -= rotate_sped * delta;

# Calculate the direction the player is facing
var forward_face_direction = Vector2(cos(rotation), sin(rotation))

# Modify velocity after calculating the direction the player is facing.
if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_up"):
	velocity += forward_face_direction * move_speed * delta;
if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_down"):
	velocity -= forward_face_direction * move_speed * delta;

# Move the player using the KinematicBody2D
velocity = move_and_slide(velocity)

Ebenezer

Well, I did not understand the code @TwistedTwigleg , but I will try it. THANKS.