Clamping the mouse

Sparrow

hi all

has anyone got a better way than this to clamp the mouse aim (using a sprite instead of the pointer), it works... but it's not pretty. clamped in a circle would be sweet.

	$Sprite.position = get_local_mouse_position() 
	if $Sprite.position.x < -400:
		$Sprite.position.x = -400
	if $Sprite.position.x > 400:
		$Sprite.position.x = 400
	if $Sprite.position.y < -400:
		$Sprite.position.y = -400
	if $Sprite.position.y > 400:
		$Sprite.position.y = 400

TwistedTwigleg

I think, though I have not tested the code below, something like this should work:

var mouse_pos = get_local_mouse_position()
# check if the length of the vector is over 400
if mouse_pos.length() > 400:
	# Normalize the vector to set the length to 1, while still retaining the
	# position relative to the center
	var normalized_mouse_pos = mouse_pos.normalized()
	# multiply by 400 so it's 400 pixels away from the center
	var mouse_pos = normalized_mouse_pos * 400
# Finally, set the position of the sprite
$Sprite.position = mouse_pos

I think that should work. I did something similar for the touchscreen joystick tutorial I made, and it seemed to work decently. Let me know if that does not work and I'll make a quick prototype.