Figure 8 Movement

Lina

Hello,

First time poster and kinda new to Godot. I'm trying to figure out a figure eight hovering pattern. Current setup is a KinematicBody2D node using the below code snippet to move around a point. However, it seems to drift off and I haven't been able to figure out why. Any insight would be helpful.

I did try running a search on this topic prior to posting with little success. Are there other ways I could try achieving this effect that would be more effective?

Also please let me know if I need to format the code a certain way. I didn't see anything mentioning it but I may have missed something.

	velocity = Vector2.ZERO
	
	angle += delta

	if angle > 2*PI:
		angle = 0

	velocity.x = cos(angle)
	velocity.y = pow(cos(angle), 2) - pow(sin(angle), 2)

Thanks,

Lina

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cybereality

Seems to work alright for me:

extends KinematicBody2D

var angle = 0
var velocity = Vector2()

func _process(delta):
	velocity = Vector2.ZERO
	angle += delta
	if angle > 2*PI:
		angle = 0
	velocity.x = cos(angle)
	velocity.y = pow(cos(angle), 2) - pow(sin(angle), 2)
	
	translate(velocity)

You can also look into path following as another option.

https://kidscancode.org/godot_recipes/ai/path_follow/