get_mouse_pos not returning mouse position

Tteam_disposable · Apr 24, 2016

Hi All,I'm having a crack at making my first game in Godot. It seems like a lovely engine, but I've run in to a problem. I'm trying to build a top down 2d shooter, where the player fires a bullet from their position in the direction of the mouse cursor.I'm using get_mouse_pos to get the mouse position, but it doesn't seem to be giving me the absolute mouse position. Instead, it seems to giving me a varying location in relation to the mouse cursor, which changes in relation to where my character is in the level (this is presumably as the camera tracks the player, so it is looking at a different part of the viewport).I tested this by creating a node which is just an image, and attaching a script to it that runs get_mouse_pos in process.If I move the character over to the left (and the camera scrolls left with him), the reported mouse position drifts in relation to the mouse cursor - i can tell as the image moves.I presume this is something to do with the viewport, but I don't know how to fix it.Is there anything I can do get the absolute position of the mouse cursor? What is the value that get_mouse_pos is actually reporting?Thanks!

Ddanjo · Apr 25, 2016

I once stumbled upon this, too. IIRC I ended up using CanvasItem.get_local_mouse_pos() or CanvasItem.get_global_mouse_pos()

Tteam_disposable · Apr 25, 2016

That worked, thanks!For anyone else trying it, I didn't have to call it from CanvasItem - I just called it from the sprite class I was in (get_global_mouse_pos())

Ddanjo · Apr 25, 2016

CanvasItem is the only class that implements those functions, you can call it from any class that extends it (e.g. Sprite)See: http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/classes/class_sprite.html