#Getting a directional input from each mouse movement

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molten gate May 21, 2025, 1:00 AM

Hello! I'm making a 2.5d game (in orthogonal 3d from 45°) . I already have a direction pointer using raycasting to find where the mouse is on the viewport- but what I actually want is closer to a joystick using the mouse where every time it pushes in a direction it sets it that way. For example- mouse on left side of screen- but I move it slightly right. I would like that to make the direction pointer go to the right.

I don't know how to solve this but I feel like it would be simple. If anyone has any advice I'd greatly appreciate it 🩵

dense frost May 21, 2025, 1:41 AM

Have you looked at the mouse relative screen movement fields in event? https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_inputeventmousemotion.html#class-inputeventmousemotion-property-screen-velocity

Godot Engine documentation

InputEventMouseMotion

Inherits: InputEventMouse< InputEventWithModifiers< InputEventFromWindow< InputEvent< Resource< RefCounted< Object Represents a mouse or a pen movement. Description: Stores information about a mous...

That gets you "mouse moved right"(-even-when-mouse-is-left)