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drawgy
I have a character that moves relative to the camera (that can be rotated around player w/ mouse). Player can move 360° (and rotates to the direction it’s moving), no problem, BUT I want to change how this works.
I want to rotate the character with WASD and only apply speed to the Z-vector, so it will turn more smoothly (I think) and I could add, let’s say, an attack that moves the player to the direction it’s facing.
I guess I could make that work with what I already have but I dont know how to apply “force” to the direction player is going or was going.
I have looked around everywhere and tried everything. pls send help im losing it.
Well, I got it…kinda working. While the attack animation is playing, player moves overtime to the facing direction. Multiplying with bigger numbers makes it move faster.
var angle = player.get_rotation().y
velocity = Vector3(sin(angle),0, cos(angle)) * 10
there is a MUCH better way to do the same thing, here you are converting a vector into an angle and then back into a vector, which is very inefficient.
Simply use: velocity = player.global_transform.basis.z.normalized() * 10
(adjust with the direction your player is facing)
global_transform.basis.z is the blue arrow when you select your player in local coordinates. “normalized()” is only useful if your player is scaled.
You get the direction of the Z-Vector of any Spatial with: (This is a Vector3) global_transform.basis.z
If you want to ignore the y-component of that Vector you could use: Vector3(global_transform.basis.z.x,0,global_transform.basis.z.z)
I assume that you currently use a KinematicBody. If you really want to use Forces and Physics you could use a RigidBody instead. But I’m unsure if you really want that as it probably implies a completely different Behaviour of the “player”.
Anyway just to have it said, you would go like this to move the player forward (as a RigidBody):
var forward_force=10
_process(delta): #could also make sense inside integrate_forces
#maybe you have to multiply the vector by -1 if forward and backward is changed
apply_impulse(Vector3(0,0,0),global_transform.basis.z * forward_force * delta)
