Compass issue thing (i might just be dumb)

[carson.clelland]

yeah it was upside down

[hexgrid]

Ok, so it appears nothing is stomping the sprite’s rotation from outside, and the sprite isn’t axis locked or something.

The next question is, can we make look_at() do something? If you call look_at(Vector2(0, 3000)) that should point the x+ axis of the sprite downwards. so it should look like a clockwise turn of roughly 90 degrees.

[carson.clelland]

if this changes anything i made it look at the mouse and it followed it fine

[hexgrid]

Ok, so look_at() works. That implies that the argument skull.global_position is somehow not making it do what you expect.

That’s why I was wondering about the value of it earlier; it seems like everything else is working, so the next question is why skull.global_position isn’t producing the expected results.

[carson.clelland]

i have no idea

[hexgrid]

Well, if you do this:

print(skull.global_position)
print(global_position)

Can you copy the output here?

[carson.clelland]

(2465, -937)
(1378, 421)

[carson.clelland]

i worked around it and got it to work
looks like this now and works

extends Sprite2D

@onready var arm: Node2D = $"../../../../collectible_1"
@onready var eyeball: Node2D = $"../../../../collectible_2"
@onready var skull: Node2D = $"../../../../collectible_3"
@onready var player_compass: Node2D = $"../player"

var target = null

@warning_ignore("unused_parameter")
func _process(delta):
	if Input.is_action_pressed("ping"):
		rotation = player_compass.rotation

[hexgrid]

@carson.clelland

(2465, -937)
(1378, 421)

You must be using a fairly large screen.

That’s a delta of (1087, -1358), which is ~51 degrees down? It does look like those should work.

I know it’s a bit weird, but what if you do:

rotation = global_position.angle_to_point(skull.global_position)