Wrong CollisionShape2D When Activating $AnimatedSprite.flip_h

Dullahan

Hi,

I have a little problem where activating "flip_h" my sprite changes position but my "CollisionShape2D" ends up in the same position and does not change along with the sprite.

Gif example below:

I can solve it by making some pretty ugly code :'(

$ColisionShape.position.x = $Sprite.position.x -18 $ColisionShape.position.x = $Sprite.position.x + 18

Where 18 is the total for CollisionShape2D to be in the correct position. I was wondering if there is any way to solve this without having to do this ugly code above? :s

Megalomaniak

Theres nothing particularly ugly about that code, but there might be something "ugly" about the way in which you are using it perhaps.

You could and perhaps should create a function that will do the AnimatedSprite flipping and collision shape positioning for you elegantly. Then use that function to handle the whole shebang when and where necessary.

Bonus points for handling it as a state with a corresponding state switching machine.

Dullahan

@Megalomaniak
Thank you. I fixed that already and turned it into a function.

Now I'm just having signal problems.

In my Player there is an Area2D in which I create a "body_entered (PhysicsBody)" and connects to the node "KinecmaticBody2D".

Within the body_entered function, I do:

func _on_Area2D_body_entered(body): body.test()

And in the enemy scene I create the function "func test ()", inside it I show a test message "print (" damage ")".

But when I run the project and go to test, an error occurs showing that there is no function "test ()" inside the body.

Several tutorials I watched showed the same way and it worked, I don't know what to do.

Megalomaniak

What are you doing in .test()? testing to see if the body is valid for collision or some kind of event triggering I imagine? And what happens when it is not? Have you implemented an elegant way to deal with a situation where the object entering the area has no .test() implemented on it?

These are the first questions that come to my mind.

Also note that I'm not clairvoyant thus I know not what tutorials you have watched, nor have I watched all the tutorials under the sun. ;)

Perhaps you should first er, test to see if the object/body triggering the signal has .test() implemented and available on it?

Dullahan

Hi @Megalomaniak

I did the test () function to check if one body recognized the other through body_entered ()

But finally, I discovered why the function was not being performed, it was because accidentally doing an attack animation the sword collision was too large and hit the ground when it hit the target I wanted. :#

I corrected the size of the sword collision and set the layers and masks correctly.

Anyway, thanks so much for the help.

Megalomaniak

I'm glad you figured it out. :)