Need help with player moving the background with it

[ruibli]

Godot Version

4.2.1

Question

I need help with a player Area2D that is moving things that it shouldn’t.

For the images i attached:
sos: The main scene the game will run in
nova: The player scene
red / blue: testing assets

Intended functionality is for blue to stay in place while red follows the player but these are reversed. How can I fix this?

Player move script:

extends Area2D

signal hit

@export var awareness = 100
@export var speed = 200
@export var damage = 1
@export var attack = 1
@export var gold = 0

func _process(delta):
var velocity = Vector2.ZERO # The player’s movement vector.
if Input.is_action_pressed(“move_right”):
velocity.x += 1
if Input.is_action_pressed(“move_left”):
velocity.x -= 1
if Input.is_action_pressed(“move_down”):
velocity.y += 1
if Input.is_action_pressed(“move_up”):
velocity.y -= 1

if velocity.length() > 0:
	velocity = velocity.normalized() * speed
	$AnimatedSprite2D.play()
else:
	$AnimatedSprite2D.stop()

position -= velocity * delta

if velocity.x < 0:
	$AnimatedSprite2D.animation = "walk_left"
	$AnimatedSprite2D.flip_h = false
elif velocity.x > 0:
	$AnimatedSprite2D.animation = "walk_left" # right
	$AnimatedSprite2D.flip_h = true
elif velocity.y < 0:
	$AnimatedSprite2D.animation = "walk_up"
elif velocity.y > 0:
	$AnimatedSprite2D.animation = "walk_down"
	
print("Nova:" + str(position))

[zdrmlpzdrmlp]

im not quite understand your code, how a player that is Area2D type node has velocity?

[ruibli]

I just started Godot so I’m not too sure myself, but this code is taken from Godot’s 2D Tutorial if that helps

[zdrmlpzdrmlp]

oh ok now i see, didnt see that it created its own velocity, used it just for direction for the animated sprite to play correct “animation” based of the velocity

then the following code:

position += velocity * delta
position = position.clamp(Vector2.ZERO, screen_size)

actually make it moves

@ruibli

position -= velocity * delta

your code here doesnt look the same like it shown in there

here what i tested, and it should work:
GIF:

what my codes look like:

extends Area2D

@export var speed = 400 # How fast the player will move (pixels/sec).
var screen_size # Size of the game window.

func _ready():
	screen_size = get_viewport_rect().size

func _process(delta):
	var velocity = Vector2.ZERO # The player's movement vector.
	if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_right"):
		velocity.x += 1
	if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left"):
		velocity.x -= 1
	if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_down"):
		velocity.y += 1
	if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_up"):
		velocity.y -= 1

	if velocity.length() > 0:
		velocity = velocity.normalized() * speed
		$AnimatedSprite2D.play()
	else:
		$AnimatedSprite2D.stop()
	position += velocity * delta
	position = position.clamp(Vector2.ZERO, screen_size)

[ruibli]

Tried that and blue is still following the player while red is stationary

Anything else I can provide to help?

[mrcdk]

Are you sure that you set the blue texture to the blue sprite node and the red texture to the red sprite node?

[ruibli]

Yup, would it help if I gave you the file to the project so you can take a look yourself?

[zdrmlpzdrmlp]

what’s inside your nova’s scene?
click this

and show what you see on the Local hierarchy

[ruibli]

Heres what that looks like

[ruibli]

Managed to figure out it was an issue of the camera being moved, not the player sprite

Fixed by changing this line:

$AnimatedSprite2D.position += velocity * delta