Duplicated Sprites w/ Joystick

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Godot Version

4.4.1

Question

So I’ve made a joystick for a top down RPG I’m making. I followed a tutorial and changed some things to fit my game. For some reason the center knob is duplicating itself whenever I move the sprite. I’ve been playing with it for a while now and can’t seem to figure this one out.

Here’s my code for the knob’s movement:

	if pressing:
		if get_global_mouse_position().distance_to(parent.global_position) <= maxLength:
			global_position = get_global_mouse_position()
		else:
			GameManager.angle = parent.global_position.angle_to_point(get_global_mouse_position())
			global_position.x = parent.global_position.x + cos(GameManager.angle) * maxLength
			global_position.y = parent.global_position.y + sin(GameManager.angle) * maxLength
			calculateVector()
	else:
		global_position = lerp(global_position, parent.global_position, delta*10)
		GameManager.posVector = Vector2(0,0)

And here’s a picture of what the knob is doing in game:

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The movement is working fine, I just can’t seem to get that duplicate knob to go away!

Thank you!

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Is there any chance you have two of these virtual joysticks? Did you instantiate it and add it as a global example?

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I have the joystick scene in my Player HUD CanvasLayer. I can’t find any other instances in my code. I did include a variable for the Joystick root note in my GameManager global (so the player and the joystick scene could access it).

4

How do you define the variable in your GameManager global? How is it set?

5

GameManager.gd

extends Node

var angle = 0
var posVector: Vector2

Then I just refer to the variables in my Joystick scene as GameManager.angle or GameManager.posVector

6

Also, whenever I have the Joystick within my Player Scene instead of my PlayerHud Scene, the error doesn’t occur.

PlayerHud/Control/Joystick – Doesn’t work
Overworld/Player/Joystick – Works

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Interesting, what happens if you remove it from both? Does a joystick still appear?

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No joystick appears. :[

9

Are you drawing the joystick with CanvasItem._draw()? Make sure that you aren’t drawing 2 knobs if that’s the case.

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Update on this. I’m not using any CanvasItem._draw(), but its creating this duplicate for other sprites too. It only seems to happen on the CanvasLayer scene. I added in a template joystick from AssetLib and the same error occured.