Facing direction without moving - 2D Grid-based Top-down game

Liradric

Hi guys

I'm making a 2D top-down game with grid-based movement, based on Pokemon. I manage to make the grid movement but I don't have a clue on how to face the direction without moving (staying in the same place and when A or W or S or D is pressed once just facing the direction without moving). Example: (https://files.fm/f/k64g5yh9u)

When I tried to make this, my grid movement started to get messed up.

Do you guys have any tips on the best way for doing this, without messing my grid movement?

Thank you!

DaveTheCoder

I assume you're checking for key presses in _physics_process() and then computing a velocity based on the key that was pressed?

You could use the initial key press to face the direction, and then have a time delay before setting velocity to a non-zero value. You may need a boolean flag or two, and a variable to keep track of the elapsed time since the initial key press.

Liradric

I understood what you said, but is there a function that can check for key press time?

Megalomaniak

Not as far as I know, but you can use is_action_pressed() and iterate a counter or maybe even use the OS.getticksmsec() to count time.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/classes/class_inputevent.html#class-inputevent-is-action-pressed https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/classes/class_os.html#class-os-get-ticks-msec

Liradric

I managed to make the count time using delta. Here is what i did:

	var duration_pressed = 0

	func _process(delta):
		if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left"):
			duration_pressed += delta

		#Resets the count	
		if Input.is_action_just_released("ui_left"):
			_pressed()

		print(duration_pressed)

	func _pressed():
		#Reset time when it becomes pressed
		duration_pressed = 0

Now, how do I apply this so my player will not move with my grid, but just change the animation if the key press time is short?

Megalomaniak

if duration_pressed <= threshold_value:
    foo
else:
    bar