Make sprite go follow another

[MrBlueFrisk]

Godot Version

4.7

Question

I am making a game and I need sword to follow player. Each have their own GdScript.

[FrozenFried]

I believe I already gave you the answer to this question in the previous topic. Please don’t create new topics for questions that have already been answered.

Use look_at()

[MrBlueFrisk]

You did? Sword is looking at mouse but I also need it to follow player

[tibaverus]

You can lerp the position of the sword so it follows the player smoothly, you can either do this inside the player code with a reference to the sword, or inside the sword itself if the sword has a reference to the player.

See vector interpolation in the docs:

Vector interpolation - Interpolation

It has really nice code examples.

Alternatively, if your sword is the child of your player, then the sword will follow the player by default anyway, since its transformation will be inherited.

[FrozenFried]

Haha,Your question was too vague for me to understand. I mixed ‘following’ with looking. Make sure to provide enough description and examples.

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[normalized]

Define “follow”.

[MrBlueFrisk]

Wherever the player goes, the sword goes with it

[gertkeno]

Add the sword as a child of the player

[swordstudios]

Is this really needed for the type of game your making?

[MrBlueFrisk]

Yes. Its a PvP arena game