Where is my sprite? Path2D and PathFollow2D

PabloDev

Hello, I am placing my sprite at point number 2 of the 2D curve but my sprite disappears. All points of the curve are within the screen, this means that the sprite must be visible at any point of the curve.

In the console, its coordinate is on screen but the sprite is not visible. Where is the sprite ?. I have attached the project in case someone can take a look.

Sprite not visible

TwistedTwigleg

I downloaded the project, and it seems the issue is with how your scene is setup. I moved the Sprite node so that it is a child of the Path2D node and commented out the code for PathFollow2D and everything worked as expected.

I'm guessing the PathFollow2D node applies an offset or something. It is kinda strange though, especially because the remote debugger says the Sprite is at the correct position.

If you want to use the PathFollow2D node, you might want to look into using the unit_offset property (Godot documentation) for moving the Sprite on the path. Setting the unit_offset property to 0.75 should place the sprite at point number 2.

PabloDev

Indeed an offset was being applied to the sprite. This happened because "Path2D" was in a different coordinate than the first point of the curve (Curve2D). Also "PathFollow2D" was misplaced with respect to the first point of the curve.

If "Path2D" and "PathFollow2D" are located at the first point of the curve, then the sprite is visible at point number 2.

Thanks for the help.

I would like to tag with "Path2D" and "PathFollow2D" but are there no node tags? This would be useful for someone with the same problem to find this answer.

Megalomaniak

I think just mentioning the node type in your post should be sufficient for search engines. We don't necessarily want to have too many tags, and creating a tag for each node in godot would definitely make it too many.

On that note though I did change the topic type to a question and mark the post by @TwistedTwigleg as the answer, which should help anyone searching.