How to apply speed to my Collision variable?

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Godot 4.2

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This is yet Another (but pretty short) question that I have. Basically I’m working on a pong game, and I have a collision variable that’s assigned to a move and collide function with velocity * delta in its parentheses, but It isn’t affected by my speed anymore, Is there anything I’m doing wrong?

var collision = move_and_collide(velocity * delta)

Thanks in advance :smiley:

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is velocity multiplied by speed? hard to tell if we do not know the definitions of variables being fed into move_and_collide

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The variable I made is for something like this:

if collision.get_collider().name == "Borders":
		hit_sound.play()
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I mean how is velocity defined and manipulated

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Isn’t it a built-in variable?
Or are you talking about something else?

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It is a built-in if this is a CharacterBody2D.

How are you manipulating the variable, right now the only equation I know affects your speed is velocity * delta I’m pretty sure delta is frame time so I need to know what velocity contains

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It’s a CharacterBody2D

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The really important part is velocity, I tried to explain it here

How are you manipulating the variable, right now the only equation I know affects your speed is velocity * delta I’m pretty sure delta is frame time so I need to know what velocity contains

I cannot help solve x = velocity * delta if I do not know what velocity = ___

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OH! Now I see what your talking about, Here’s what you’re looking for :smiley::

func _ready() -> void:
	visible = true
	var direction = 1
	direction = randi_range(1, 4)
	if direction == 1:
		velocity = Vector2.RIGHT.rotated(PI/4) * speed
	elif direction == 2:
		velocity = Vector2.LEFT.rotated(PI/4) * speed
	elif direction == 3:
		velocity = Vector2.LEFT.rotated(PI/-5) * speed
	elif direction == 4:
		velocity = Vector2.RIGHT.rotated(PI/-5) * speed
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I WAS ABLE TO FIX IT, turns out I should have calculated the speed in a physics_process instead of a ready function (because the ready function only happens once while the physics_process constantly updates). Now I can calculate velocity * delta * speed without the game breaking (or in this case, the speed being multiplied and increased constantly with an already fixed speed).

This is the first time I realized my mistake on my own and I hope I can keep on doing this more often, but still thanks @gertkeno for actually making me look into that script a bit more, I highly appreciate it :smiley:

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