Hi everyone! I'm working on a game right now and am facing an issue with the basic movement engine. Essentially, I want a system where a RigidBody2D can be moved around using another RigidBody2D as a "leg", with that leg's extension and direction controlled with the analog stick.
Here's a basic sketch of what I want to do, where the leg can be used to vault the player forward:
(It's not unlike that game "Getting Over It" lol)
So here's my scene setup for the player. (The scene setup for the world is just a simple StaticBody2D. The leg is on a second layer that should also be able to interact with the ground so it doesn't collide with the main body.)
And here's the code I've written to try to accomplish the effect.
`extends RigidBody2D
func physics_process(delta: float) -> void:
var input_vec: Vector2 = Vector2(
Input.get_joy_axis(0, JOY_AXIS_RIGHT_X),
Input.get_joy_axis(0, JOY_AXIS_RIGHT_Y)
)
position = input_vec * 60
rotation = input_vec.angle() + deg_to_rad(90)
`
And finally, here's what's happening when I try it.
As you can see, the leg isn't interacting with the ground at all. Afterward, I tried a solution where I got rid of the second rigidbody and just attached the code to a CollisionShape2D. (Same code as before, just change extends RigidBody2D to extends CollisionShape2D.) This time, the body part did interact with terrain, but it was janky and unwieldy.
When I tried locking the rotation of the parent node with this setup, I was able to get something less glitchy, but now the body could no longer move and was stuck in place like this.
So, I'm officially stumped here. As I understand it there is some weirdness involved with trying to manipulate a RigidBody's position/rotation every frame, but I couldn't figure out a different solution that worked within the constraints of the object type myself. Does anybody have any ideas? Please let me know if so!! Thank you so much :]
