360 Directional Aiming while letting AnimationTree/Player do some of the work

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Godot Version

4.3

Question

I’m trying to rotate a Node2D that I’m using as a container for arms, by simply setting the rotation degrees of the container to mouse location. The thing is I already had the animations done before I decided to go back to attempting this, so my animations being controlled in an blend tree are off when I switch between them by certain degrees. I could remake all the animations but I was wondering if there was anything else I could do. These animations are for arm placement, position, rotation And texture of the sprite2d, replacing the arm entirely which was at a completely different angle so I would rotate it into the angle I wanted and now when it reaches the top right animation for aiming, it basically is facing almost completely upward because it’s offsetting thr animation by about 30 degrees. I wish there was just A rotation offset also.

I think I honestly would’ve been better off just with code.

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Can you maybe provide an image of this animation? Im having a hard time understanding what exactly the problem is

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Since I can’t upload here yet, idk what else people use to share videos but Supposed to work vs how it works - Album on Imgur one shows how it’s supposed to work. This is with code in a case by case basis, and the other one it’s how it actually works without me manually offsetting the rotation for each animation. There are various ways to fix this on a per animation, but I was hoping that there would be a simpler fix, as there usually is.

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Hmm i dont know if there is a simpler way to do this

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Thanks for the reply, and sorry if it was confusing wrote that at 5am before I went to bed.

Just wish I could reset the rotation angle respectively every time the animation change, but since there is no rotation offset, don’t think it’s possible. If I change the animation to Add on the blendtree for blending idle movement animation and aiming animations instead of blend2 the angle of how much it skips, is a lot smaller. But the only way I could get the arms to move position in sync to match the idle animation even when changing aiming animations was with using blend2 instead. Well that’s without doing it manually.

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could you make a rotation off set?

#have this call outside the indents
var rotationoffset =0

if idel
	rotationoffset = #whatsneeded
elif aiming
	rotationoffset = #whatsneeded

rotation = angletomouse + rotationoffset

this mightn’t help, but this is my approach for this problem
edit:
beware of radians and degrees

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I mean this is how I managed to fix it. Unfortunately it is per animation basis it’s not just a direct offset. As when I use the top right arm, it’s actually -45 degrees, but the bottom arm is facing downwards so it needs a different offset. The way I currently bypassed this headache. Is by storing the value of the radian facing the mouse, and then if the radian is between a range I apply and offset. Then I blend the original to the AnimationTree so it doesn’t mess when the animation should change. So I have to do every animation and offset it manually between their own range.