I am making a game where the player spins around on the screen to face the mouse, except instead of actually turning the sprite, there are a lot of different animations that look like the player is spinning, so I was wondering how to play a different animation based on the mouse position. I am brand spankin' new to Godot, loving it so far, there's just some stuff I don't know how to do, like this.
How could I change animations based on where the mouse is on the screen?
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There's an example of the spin. Each direction has a different animation, those aren't shown in the gif
9 days later
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In this case I wouldnt use animations but change the sprites texture manually based on the mouse position percentage ie
pseudo code:
func handle_mouse(event):
if event is InputEventMouseMotion:
mouse_position = event.position
screen_width = get_viewport.size.x
screen_height = get_viewport.size.y
x_percent = mouse_position.x/screen_width
y_percent = mouse_position.y/screen_width
change_sprite(x_percent,y_percent)
func change_sprite(x_percent,y_percent):
#left side
if x_percent < 0.5: #you can change this to a range
#based on how many left side sprites you have use the
# lower 50% of x_percent and the y_percent value to determine what sprite to change to
#right side
elif x_percent > 0.5: #you can change this to a range
#based on how many right side sprites you have use the
# upper 50% of x_percent and the y_percent value to determine what sprite to change to
else: #x_percent is equal to 50% or within range
if y_percent > 0.5:
#assign up sprite or vise versa
else:
#assign down sprite or vise versatheres probably a much better way to do this but its the most straight forward way I can think of