When moving left while setting rotation_degrees to 0, the character starts rotating

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Godot 3

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So, in my game you can pounce towards an enemy. When you do so, you change form and are rotated to point at them. The issue is that setting rotation degrees to 0 when you aren’t pouncing seems to make you spin when you move left.

if pouncing:
		if target:
			look_at(target.position)
		pounceTimer -= delta
		if pounceTimer > 0:
			Globals.iframe = true
			if target:
				velocity = (target.global_position - global_position).normalized() * POUNCE_SPED * 8
		else:
			Globals.iframe = false
			pouncing = false
			velocity = Vector2.ZERO
	else:
		rotation_degrees = 0

This is my code for flipping the character, which may have something to do with it:

var direction := Input.get_axis("left", "right")
	if direction == -1:
		transform.x.x = -1
	elif direction == 1:
		transform.x.x = 1
2

Change it to:

var direction := Input.get_axis("left", "right")
if direction: scale.x = direction

I am not sure that Input.get_axis("left", "right") always returns 1 and -1, if the above codes does not works then try this:

if direction: scale.x = 1.0 if direction > 0 else -1.0