My slide feels ice'y

Help Programming
,
1

Godot Version

4.5

Question

i am making a top down 2d game and want to make a roll but it feels slow. can anyone tell me how to make it feel faster? the roll looks like im just sliding around on ice.

the rollDistance is a float 50.0

if Input.is_action_just_pressed("Roll") and !Rolling:
	Rolling = true
	if Input.is_action_pressed("Up"):
		velocity.y = rollDistance * -1
	elif Input.is_action_pressed("Down"):
		velocity.y = rollDistance
	elif Input.is_action_pressed("Right"):
		velocity.x = rollDistance
	elif Input.is_action_pressed("Left"):
		velocity.x = rollDistance * -1
	await get_tree().create_timer(1).timeout
	Rolling = false
else:
	pass

move_and_slide()
2

A few thoughts:

  1. You are not animating anything, so that’s likely why it looks like they are just sliding. Add an animation to fix that.
  2. Your roll may feel slow because it takes 1 second no matter what. Try changing that value.
  3. I recommend using is_rolling as your variable name instead of Rolling. An uppercase letter at the beginning indicates a class name, not a variable. It is also common to preface boolean variables with is_ to make the code easier to read.
2 Likes
3

I think you need to introduce the idea of friction.

When I am not pressing up or down, the y value needs to tend to 0 based on a friction value.

So if I am moving up and press left, there should be some upward movement that slows to 0.

The same for the other directions.

Changing the friction value will change the ‘icy’ feel. I use a similar thing on a tank in a tank game, so on different surfaces I change the value so on Ice I slide a lot, on mud a little, and on grass virtually nothing.

Hope that helps. (Sorry no code examples, I am about to get offline and have no time.)

EDIT oh on reading @dragonforge-dev answer I realised I might have got the wrong end of the stick. Sorry. This is an abrupt ‘roll a certain distance’. Your ‘icy’ description confused me. Sorry.

1 Like
4

@pauldrewett is right, adding friction would help as well, but without something visual to indicate rolling it’s still going to feel off to your brain.