How to make object move horizontally a set amount of times

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Godot Version

4.2.2

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How would I make a CharacterBody2D move a certain amount of times in the direction the player is facing? I tried using the “for x in 10” and it did repeat that certain amount of times, but the velocity.x stayed the same and didn’t change.

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Please explain more on what do you want?
Otherwise you can use a variable and timer for it.

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I need a “dive” mechanic somewhat like in Mario 64. If you don’t know what I’m talking about you could look up some Mario 64 footage and it would make more sense.

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Super Mario 64 increases your speed for a bit when you press A in the water, maybe you want to use a dampening function on your speed and increase it over the damp limit? Might be more helpful to paste your player controller’s script?

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Try this:

var dash_amount = 0.0
var dash_time = 5.0

var can_dash = false
var dash_speed = 100.0

func _physical_process(delta):
   if can_dash:
      dash_amount += dash_time * delta
   
   if Input.is_action_just_pressed("dash") and can_dash:
      can_dash = true
   
   if can_dash: velocity.x = dash_amount * dash_speed

   if dash_amount >= 1.0: can_dash = false

It is possible that I made a mistake, maybe because I wrote it in mobile.
Also, it is just a simple time/amount based dash, I not watched any Mario 64 footage (will watch later)

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I was talking more like a long jump of sorts when your player is on the ground. My code just consists of basic character movement like a velocity.x and velocity.y variable and since I’m new I wouldn’t know how to control those in the long run. :man_shrugging:

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Thank you friend! I’ll try this in a second and I’ll keep you updated on if it works or not. :+1:

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The CharacterBody2D template script? Then what I am talking about is similar to how it applies jumps/gravity.

The jump is the extra force being applied, notice it’s faster than SPEED. The dampening is applied via gravity, a subtractive force over time.

You could do the same thing on the x axis as jump/gravity does on the y. Make sure to change your velocity to use move_toward and delta like so, using a new constant ACCELERATION and DECELERATION

var direction := Input.get_axis("ui_left", "ui_right")
if direction:
	velocity.x = move_toward(velocity.x, direction * SPEED, ACCELERATION * delta)
else:
	velocity.x = move_toward(velocity.x, 0, DECELERATION * delta)
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