V 4.22
Hey, I’m a bit of a noob and I’m totally stumped at the moment, unfortunately I have scoured the internet for answers but everybody seems to make top-down shooters using a mouse to guide where the shots are directed and in my game the shots follow one of the 8 way directions in which the player is facing.
Currently, when the player is facing right Vector2(1,0) the bullet goes in the right direction, however, if a player is facing left Vector2(-1,0) the bullet is going right and when the player faces up, the bullet goes left Vector2(-1,0) and I can’t see where I am going wrong.
I would be really grateful if someone could help asI am pulling my hair out!. See the code below for what I have.
Player.gd
func player_movement(_delta):
direction = Input.get_vector("left", "right", "up", "down")
velocity = direction * speed
look_at(global_position + velocity)
func get_last_movement():
var last_dir = direction
if (last_dir != Vector2(0,0)):
shoot_direction = last_dir
var pos = global_position - position
var dir = shoot_direction
shoot.emit(pos, dir)
The above is the player script which emits a signal to the bullet manager script and shows how the shoot_direction var is set
BulletManager.gd
extends Node2D
@export var bullet_scene : PackedScene
func _on_player_shoot(pos, dir):
var bullet = bullet_scene.instantiate()
add_child(bullet)
bullet.position = pos
bullet.velocity = dir.normalized()
print(dir)
bullet.add_to_group("bullets")
The above is the bullet manager script which sets the position and velocity of the bullet script
Bullet.gd
extends Area2D
var speed : int = 700
var direction: Vector2
var velocity: Vector2
func _process(delta):
translate(velocity * speed * delta)
The above is the bullet script takes the args from the signal and sets the trajectory of the bullet
When I print out the direction (Vector2) of the arg from the player script to the bullet manager it shows the correct Vector2 directions as expected but when I run the game the bullets do not.
The screenshot below shows the player facing left but the bullets shooting to the right and I can’t work this out for the life of me! Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
