navigation & turn animations

d103p

I am fairly new to Godot and I am wondering how can I access the points created in pathfinding to set turn animations. E.g. if between point C and D there is a 97º angle difference, it will start a turn animation "walking_rTurn90"

So far so good I am able to do turn animation logic with bodies that use button commands to turn, like left arrow, right etc.

cybereality

You could use interpolation, with a tween you could do interpolate_property and have it set to adjust the rotation over a period of time.

zitkip

@cybereality yeah, definitely smoothing rotation helps but what I was looking for is a way to store the points in an array, check neighbourhoods ones angle difference and then set the animations to play, however executing this is out of my ballpark.

other way would be checking a specie of "delta yaw" to detect direction change and fire animations. I will try to copy & paste some Unreal Engine videos tutorials about the topic into Godot,

edit: realized that the turn will happen then the the "delta yaw" will detect direction change... so pointless in a path-find situation.

cybereality

What exactly is the use case? I'm not sure I understand.

zitkip

@cybereality a 3d game that uses path-find as movement. For a fancy experience, I would like to have a turn animations when turns are greater than 22 or 25 degrees.

zitkip

OK! I realized that is really out of my bounds all the solutions I need to implement to be satisfied with a path-find movement & turn animations. As I am using root motion with animations like: "walk_start" & "walk_stop" other types of calculations should be added into the script beyond comparing points angles difference...

My solution was to exclude multi-protagonists and let only 1 exist as controllable by Player. As an indie dev. without coding experience, that feels right.

cybereality

Honestly I don't think it would be hard, but I haven't worked much with the path finding so I don't know the exact code to do it.