Godot movement 2d problem spaceship

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Godot Version

Godot 4.3

Question

When I turn to 12 o’clock and press in front, I fly in front. But when I turn 3 o’clock and press in front, I’m not flying for 3 hours, but for 1.5 hours. I want it to turn from 12 o’clock to 3 o’clock.

extends CharacterBody2D

@export var speed = 400
@export var rotation_speed: float = 0.8
var max_speed = 500
var rotation_direction: float = 0.0
var forward_input = 0
var forward_direction = Vector2.UP

func get_input():
	rotation_direction = Input.get_axis("ui_left", "ui_right")
	forward_input = Input.get_axis("ui_down", "ui_up")

func _process(delta):
	get_input()
	if rotation_direction != 0:
		rotation += rotation_direction * rotation_speed * delta
		forward_direction = Vector2.UP.rotated(rotation)
	if forward_input != 0:
		velocity += forward_direction * forward_input * speed * delta
	
	print(position)
	print(velocity)
	print(rotation)
	move_and_slide()
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Is there any chance your sprite is additionally being rotated at the same rate as your CharacterBody2D?

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Is anything attenuating your velocity? It looks to me like you’re just accumulating velocity, so if you start at 12:00 and turn to 3:00, you’ll have accumulated a lot of velocity towards 12:00, then 1:00, then 2:00… the cumulative velocity will have you moving somewhere between your initial facing and your final facing.

Something needs to do velocity *= 0.8 every update or something so you bleed off the old vectors, or you need to clamp max velocity after adding in the new.

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