burnt tinsel
I'm trying to make it so a sword orbits my main character and that weight applies to it so its easier to move it towards the floor or if you leave your mouse it will fall and that its also harder to move it in the oppisisite direction once it gets going and then make it so it speeds up over time.
I'm also wanting to make sparks come off of it that light up the surroundings whenever it hits something and I obviously don't want it clipping through stuff like the floor.
grizzled vapor
try playing with Godot's physics3d joints -- you want a pin joint joining the body to the sword system, and potentially a pin joint between the sword and the sword system, so that when the sword would hit the floor the blade rotates
you want to detect collision between the sword and the ground to emit a signal on collide; I think normal rigidbody on_body_enter events would suffice (the sparks are a particle emitter which triggers on those signals)
and you want some kind of constant force mechanism to draw the sword towards its target point -- since the force is constant, when it works with gravity it's greater, and when it works against it's lesser, which will give the perception of weight
burnt tinsel
and you want some kind of constant force mechanism to draw the sword towards its...
Thanks I will try to implement this but allot of it is even hard for me to imagine trying to implement I will try but any help would be appreciated ofc you don't jave to it might just take me a bit to figure out
burnt tinsel
and you want some kind of constant force mechanism to draw the sword towards its...
I'm pretty confused on this sorry to bother
grizzled vapor
you want to do something pretty complex, so you'll have to break it down into parts
which part do you want to start with? What have you tried, what is giving you trouble?
burnt tinsel
which part do you want to start with? What have you tried, what is giving you tr...
Understanding what you mean by most of it tbh because I loaded onto my project and I'm just blanking
grizzled vapor
what I said doesn't matter; what you want to build matters. You want a lot of things. Which thing do you want to build first? (usually: start simple and build from there)
burnt tinsel
what I said doesn't matter; what you want to build matters. You want a lot of th...
The weapon orbiting my player
Whilest pointing away
grizzled vapor
hey now
burnt tinsel
Pretty simple
grizzled vapor
so what do you need? DO you have a player sprite and a sword sprite?
Are they in a scene?
burnt tinsel
Yes
grizzled vapor
How do you want to control the orbit?
burnt tinsel
By mouse position
grizzled vapor
ok! Need anything from me?
burnt tinsel
ok! Need anything from me?
How to do it lol I'm trying to learn it all from scratch I'm pretty much completely new
grizzled vapor
Do you know:
0. Godot mouse APIs (read the docs)
With those put together, you have the information to write a little SwordController that knows where the mouse & the player is, and makes a decision about where the sword should be (using geometry), and then steps towards there
(bonus: you can also make it point the correct direction from that same piece of code 😄 )
burnt tinsel
Do you know:
0. Godot mouse APIs ([read the docs](https://docs.godotengine.org/e...
I can get a character in and do stuff like move around and animations I know some shortcuts and how all the basic lighting and nodes work alongside tilemaps stuff like that
Been learning for like a month on godot but around 4 in total bc unity, unreal I tried them but not my thing unreal maxed my vram
grizzled vapor
I didn't ask that, really what I did was I gave you a bunch of reading homework 😄
grizzled vapor
there's no way around it, if you want to make something fancy, you gotta learn to make something fancy!
(and the docs are pretty well laid out. You can probably finish it all in... dunno, under 20m? Depends how fast you read 🙂 )
grizzled vapor
this is pretty similar to "moving a character around" honestly
so you can probably skim that part of it, it's just review
burnt tinsel
Ye this is just for the orbiting right? I'm guessing that the gravity and stuff is more advanced
grizzled vapor
it is, but it's not very much more advanced, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it