How to use the cursor position to apply even velocity

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Godot Version

Godot 4.3

Question

I am trying to apply recoil in my top down 2d game. To apply recoil in the opposite direction, I am just setting my velocity to the negative of the cursor position.

	var target_pos = get_global_mouse_position() - position
	velocity = -target_pos
	move_and_slide()
#Inside fire function

But this creates a problem because depending on how far my cursor is from the player, the recoil will vary. Please help!

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Normalize the vector and then scale it by how much velocity you want:

const RECOIL_VELOCITY: float = 100.0 # or whatever

[...]

    var target_pos = (get_global_mouse_position() - position).normalized()
    velocity = -target_pos * RECOIL_VELOCITY
    move_and_slide()

Normalizing makes the vector be length 1.0, however long it was before.

edit: syntax errors

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Ok, thank you!