How to make a 2D wheel rotate?

[Tizio]

Godot Version

Godot 4.3

Question

Physics Programming Help
As the title says, I need help on how to make a 2D wheel rotate.
I’m making a game and what I need is to make the wheel rotate based on the buttons I click, but I’m new to game making, and I don’t really know how to do these things.

This is the current code:

extends RigidBody2D

var rotationSpeed:float = 1.0
func _process(_delta: float) -> void:
	global_position = get_parent().get_node("block").global_position

func _input(event: InputEvent) -> void:
	if event is InputEventKey:
		if Input.is_action_pressed("left") and not Input.is_action_pressed("right"):
			global_rotation_degrees -= rotationSpeed
		elif Input.is_action_pressed("right") and not Input.is_action_pressed("left"):
			global_rotation_degrees += rotationSpeed

And this is my scene

At the moment the wheel kinda rotates, but it keeps snapping and after releasing it just starts rotating randomly.

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

[fallenknight001]

In my project, i have enemies rotate and i do:

rotation +=

But, since your using is_action_pressed(). To my knowledge, thats like Input.is_action_just_pressed(), so you might want to use is_action() to make the code run while your holding the button

[pauldrewett]

Here is a simple implementation:

@onready var Wheel = $Wheel

var rotation_speed: float = 1.0
var rotation_direction: int = 1
var is_rotating: bool = false


func _input(event):
	if event.is_action_pressed("ui_left"):
		rotation_direction = -1
		is_rotating = true
	elif event.is_action_released("ui_left"):
		is_rotating = false
	
	if  event.is_action_pressed("ui_right"):
		is_rotating = true
		rotation_direction = 1
	elif event.is_action_released("ui_right"):
		is_rotating = false


func _process(delta):
	if is_rotating:
		Wheel.rotation += (rotation_direction * rotation_speed * delta)

The is_action_pressed only fires when the button is pressed, but you can detect when it is released too. You can use that to switch the flag for is_rotating on and off, and change the direction on left and right. You can then deal with the rotation in the process function.

Hope this helps.

Paul