How to do a specific type of player movement + sprite changes

[willow egret]

Hello! I will quickly tell my issue (I am a total noob, I installed Godot some days ago)
I've been trying to search for tutorials about how to do simple things (Like adding animations to my walking) but I've hit an issue. Most tutorials sprites have an up and down while my spritesheet does not.
So I am not sure how to make a walking animation that is something like this:
(When clicking up key, walk up and keep the sprite [either left or right] movement that was used before)
I also saw two main ways of displaying animation, but in one I needed the up and down frames, and the other seemed a bit too overcomplicated?
Sorry again if this is a dumb question, I haven't found an answer (And I'm super new to coding in general)

[split oyster]

just don't play the up animation if you don't have one

[willow egret]

There's supposed to be an up animation, it just keeps the same movement than the previous key touched, I am not sure how to implement that (sorry :( )

[merry spruce]

Are you setting the animation for left and right, or setting x scaling to -1?

[willow egret]

I was following this tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBoXqW4RykE&list=PL3cGrGHvkwn0zoGLoGorwvGj6dHCjLaGd (So I was doing what the guy was doing)

[willow egret]

I believe so, I was doing one scale positive and one scale negative

[merry spruce]

You can simply start by saying

If input.x > 0
    #play right animation
Elif input.x < 0
    #play left animation

I'm on mobile so I'm not sure if the Elif code is correct, but that way moving pure up or down will keep the same facing direction, and up-left, up-right etc works as well

[willow egret]

I'll try it and let you know!!!! Let me do it real quick

[merry spruce]

(of course changing input to whatever you use to get input)

Good luck! If you get stuck send a screenshot of or post your code, so we know what we're dealing with

[willow egret]

👍

Getting unexpected if in class body u.u

I am really new to this sorry again if I make any like, dumb mistakes

Oh wait

Input with like

Hmm

Idk if that's the issue I don't think it is

But input goes with I not i right

[patent forge]

The class name is capitalized

The functions are all lowercase

snake_case to be precise

[patent forge]

idk if you figured it out, but the code must be inside a function.

_process() is a good candidate since it is a graphical thing.

[willow egret]

OIhh thanks!!! Sorry Im really new at this, I gotta go somewhere rn but when I get home I'll try it!

[willow egret]

;;

Gahhh

Do I put the Process (void) thing? When I do I get another error

Ok I figured something out lemme

[willow egret]

I deleted the things that were giving me an error (bc I don't even understand what could've been) And I still get the error ;;

[pearl sentinel]

do you have a reference to the animation at the top? there should be something like
@onready var anim = $Sprite2D/AnimationPlayer

obviously the path should be to wherever your animation player actually is, you can just drag it in from the node tree and itll do it automatically

[pearl sentinel]

okay hold on i just looked and saw line 1 is empty... you still need the extends CharacterBody2D

im still new to godot but im fairly certain thats what tells the script what node its modifying

[willow egret]

Added that one!! Let me try applying what u told me

[pearl sentinel]

ping if you cant get it working, im very much still learning but i feel like we can get this

[willow egret]

Lemme try it again bc it's not letting me modify the tree for some reason, giving me an error, I'll watch a video explaining hwo to get it to work and I'll let u know!

[patent forge]

_ready() is a call, and it is not inside of a function.