how to do the spinning of a kinematicbody2d player?

Arcturus232

Hi. I'm new to godot and I found problem when I wanted to do a player's character rotation. Here's my gdscript code:

extends KinematicBody2D

export (int) var speed = 200

var target = Vector2()
var velocity = Vector2()

func _input(event):
    if event.is_action_pressed('click'):
        target = get_global_mouse_position()

func _physics_process(delta):
    velocity = position.direction_to(target) * speed
    look_at(target)
    if position.distance_to(target) > 5:
        velocity = move_and_slide(velocity)

TwistedTwigleg

What is the problem? Looking at the code and the title of topic, I'm not quite sure where the issue is.

The only thing I can see that might be causing an issue is the use of the local position when calculating the direction. Using the local position works if the parent node is at origin (0, 0), but will have issues if the parent node is offset in any way. To fix this, you just need to use velocity = global_position.direction_to(target) * speed instead.

Arcturus232

@TwistedTwigleg said: What is the problem? Looking at the code and the title of topic, I'm not quite sure where the issue is.

The only thing I can see that might be causing an issue is the use of the local position when calculating the direction. Using the local position works if the parent node is at origin (0, 0), but will have issues if the parent node is offset in any way. To fix this, you just need to use velocity = global_position.direction_to(target) * speed instead.

Thanks :)