My rackets doesn't move

MrPingu

Hey, I'm building a pong with godot using gdscript and when I move the player's racket, it doesn't move, I have the up and down keys configured, in addition to the script, but I still can't get it to move, does anyone know? what can be wrong?

extends Node

class_name PlayerInputComponent

var player

# Called when the node enters the scene tree for the first time.
func _ready():
	player = get_parent()
	player.connect("update", self, "handle_input")

func handle_input():
	if not "direction" in player:
		return
		
	player.direction = Vector2()
	
	if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_up"):
		player.direction.y -= 1
	if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_down"):
		player.direction.y += 1

extends KinematicBody2D

signal update

export var move_speed = 250
var direction = Vector2()

# Called when the node enters the scene tree for the first time.
func _ready():
	pass # Replace with function body.

func _process(delta):
	emit_signal("update")

# Called every frame. 'delta' is the elapsed time since the previous frame.
func _physics_process(delta):
	if direction.length() > 0:
		move_and_collide(direction * delta)

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soundgnome

Looks like you define move_speed defined but don't use it, the racket might just be moving very slowly. Maybe you intended: move_and_collide(direction * move_speed * delta)