How to add delay to a node when its parent rotates

TheDiavolo

I need to add delay to a sprite of when the parent node rotates, how do I do it ???

cybereality

In that case you may want to keep them as separate objects and do the animation yourself. You can try making a Position2D inside the parent where you want the Sprite to go. Then on the Sprite, do some logic in _process to follow the position/rotation, for example with linear_interpolate.

TheDiavolo

@cybereality said: In that case you may want to keep them as separate objects and do the animation yourself. You can try making a Position2D inside the parent where you want the Sprite to go. Then on the Sprite, do some logic in _process to follow the position/rotation, for example with linear_interpolate.

yes, but in this case the sprite yes or yes has to be inside that node.

Actually it is a kinematicbody2D that is always following the mouse pointer, then it has a Ysort that inside it is the sprite that I want with delay, and it is the same Ysort that checks if the rotation is the same, and if it does not fix it smoothly

cybereality

This may be sort of a hack, but you can add a script on the child node to do the reverse of the parent rotation (so it will stay in place) and then have a Position2D that is not rotated (same level as the one you want to rotate) and then do the linear interpolate from there. That might work, not sure though.

TheDiavolo

More or less I was able to achieve the effect I wanted using linear_interpolate and an array:

Dad

if event is InputEventMouseMotion:
    Body_Sprites.previous_direction.append(get_global_mouse_position())
    look_at(get_global_mouse_position())

Child

var previous_direction: Array = []

func _process(delta):

 if previous_direction.size() > 2:
    var look: Vector2 = previous_direction[0].linear_interpolate(previous_direction[previous_direction.size() -1], delta)
    Body.look_at(look.normalized())

previous_direction.erase(previous_direction[0])

This code works, but if the player is still, when the player moves the body looks in any direction, now if I don't know how to solve it