Help with tile movement player

[autumn bobcat]

I'm attempting to create a player movement system where the direction is determined by the last pressed button. For example, if I press the left arrow key, the player moves left, then if I press the right arrow key while still holding the left arrow key, the player should switch direction and move right. If I release the right arrow key while still holding the left arrow key, the player should turn left again.

I've tried several codes using 'for' loops, but none seem to work correctly with tile movement.

here is the code: https://pastebin.com/QBwMiiam

[vagrant patrol]

Lines 47+48, you are getting the input "strength", which as you are using a keyboard would just be 1. If you press both left and right, both will be 1 and the horizontal input would be 0.

If you wanted to do the action you wanted earlier, you would probably need to use Input.is_action_pressed and store which action has been pressed first, left or right. Then if the other one is pressed, reverse the direction.

[autumn bobcat]

I tried to do something like what you suggested, using for, but then the movement stopped being tile-based

https://pastebin.com/gXMxAUUc

[autumn bobcat]

Is there any way to make this for code work for tile-map movement?

[vagrant patrol]

If I was doing this, I would be using tweens to animate the movement and set the start and end positions to the center of the tiles, and use that instead of processing the movement every frame

This site has the idea in this section - https://kidscancode.org/godot_recipes/4.x/2d/grid_movement/index.html#animating-movement

[autumn bobcat]

I tried this guide before, but the character would be shaking

the camera glitches

but I don't know if it's because they used area2d instead of characterbody2d

I'll try to do this guide with a characterbody and see if the camera do a little shaking every step

[vagrant patrol]

Maybe turning on camera smoothing would work as well!