Any way to move a body, checking collision, without implicitly using physics_process in Godot 4?

turtlefan

Is there anything analogous to Godot 3's KinematicBody2D.move_and_collide in Godot 4? I know that many changes were made to physics; I'm just wondering if there's any way to move a PhysicsBody2D, check collision, and not rely on implicitly using delta in _physics_process, which is not as friendly to program with.

Megalomaniak

You mean PhysicsBody2D? That's where the move_and_collide is inherited from. But I'm assuming you are asking what happened to KinematicBody - to make it less confusing it was named CharacterBody.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/classes/class_physicsbody2d.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/classes/class_characterbody2d.html

turtlefan

I know of the rename; I'm just wondering if there is something in Godot 4 that imitates the behavior of move_and_collide in Godot 3 (and I think it was part of KinematicBody2D in Godot 3).

Megalomaniak

Yes, you are correct; the abstraction has gotten at least somewhat better in godot 4.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.4/classes/class_physicsbody.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.4/classes/class_kinematicbody.html

I think this is a good thing.

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Where you would have used KinematicBody in godot 3.x you would use CharacterBody in godot 4.x; where move_and_collide was a part of KinematicBody in 3.x it is inherited by everything that extends from PhysicsBody, the CharacterBody included. So you can still use move_and_collide from the CharacterBody no problem, it is inherited by it from the PhysicsBody. It should be just fine.