I can't be the only one having this problem right. Essentially, in Gadot if you want to make a custom cursor there are only 2 ways from what I know. You make a sprite 2d texture that you can animated, or change via code, and you update it's position based off of the user's mouse movement. The problem with this is that it's not the most responsive as the custom cursor will often become sluggin, or inaccurate to where the user's mouse actually is. The 2nd way which is the more common one is that you code the custom cursor in, to physically replace the user's mouse so that it's responsive and perfectly alligns. The problem I'm having is that this method forfeits the animated aspect of the customer cursor, forcing you to use the static png as a replacement, unable to edit it via sprite animations or code.
#Custom Animated Reticles
pale ivy
here's the code I have right now for the custom cursor replacement.
the game looks like this at the moment
the cursorSprite.rotation code doesn't actually work properly
sharp hazel
I can't be the only one having this problem right. Essentially, in Gadot if you ...
There may be a more effective solution out there, I'd have to experiment but you could ether animate the cursor outside Godot, and call Input.SetCustomMouseCursor in _Process while cycling through the animated sprites. Or you could learn to animate the cursor inside Godot using Image and ImageTextures and use that while calling SetCustomMouseCursor in _Process.
pale ivy
There may be a more effective solution out there, I'd have to experiment but you...
I can, but the problem is that I need to map the custom cursor to the user's mouse movement, but as I've said it lags behind greatly for some reason
I assume this has something to do with DPI and such
For reference, this is the tutorial I was using
sharp hazel
I can, but the problem is that I need to map the custom cursor to the user's mou...
Sorry for the confusion, I'm not saying you should make a sprite and move that sprite every frame, I'm saying you should make a sprite and set it as the custom cursor every frame. You can't just rotate the sprite though, you have to change the bitmap itself if you want to animate it. You can do that easily outside Godot, or you can look up how to do it with Image and ImageTextures.
pale ivy
Sorry for the confusion, I'm not saying you should make a sprite and move that s...
wait, does the Godot function to change the mouse cursor, support bitmaps?
if so, I have no clue how to make an animated bitmap
sharp hazel
wait, does the Godot function to change the mouse cursor, support bitmaps?
Sorry, a bitmap is any digital image produced by setting color values to pixels. I used it to express that however you decide to animate the image, you need to change the bitmap (the pixels) itself to reflect that animation. This is why it's easiest to do outside of Godot, but more flexible if you use Image/ImageTexture to modify the pixels using code
pale ivy
Sorry, a bitmap is any digital image produced by setting color values to pixels....
I would use image texture animations but unfortunately...
sharp hazel
I would use image texture animations but unfortunately...
Imagine you have the image you want to animate. You go into photoshop, rotate it by 22.5 degrees, and save it as a new image. You do this until you have one full rotation.
You now have 15 images reflecting your desired animation.
You use set_custom_mouse_cursor with the first image.
A few _process frames later, you set_custom_mouse_cursor to the second image.
Then the third, forth, etc.
You now have an animated cursor.
With that done, if you decide it's worth the effort, you do the whole thing again, but instead of using photoshop, you use Image/ImageTextures inside Godot to create the bitmaps you require.
pale ivy
Imagine you have the image you want to animate. You go into photoshop, rotate i...
I think I might just ultimately change the way I'm trying to do this
essentially, I'm trying to make a 2d reticle that stays close to the character, that allows them to aim
let me draw it out rq
they tilt the R stick to aim in any direction
sharp hazel
I think I might just ultimately change the way I'm trying to do this
That works too 👍
pale ivy
when they press the shoot button, it shoots a grappling hook
and it hooks them onto the nearest surface
that's the gyst of this mechanic I'm trying to make
sharp hazel
Seems straight forward enough
pale ivy
yeah, but everything seems straightforward on paper
execution is where everything gets all fucky
pale ivy
Seems straight forward enough
Here's a perfect example of what I'm trying to do from a game called Webbed
sharp hazel
Hmmmm, I think you could get most of the way there using a seek steering behavior. So you wouldn't have to resort to RigidBodies
pale ivy
don't know what that means
sharp hazel
It's a way of moving a character in relation to a target. Seek is simple enough that it often produces undesired movement paths, but may be exactly what you want for a grapple/swing system. I'll let you google it for details
pale ivy
ok, so miraculously I got it working
here's the code I did
now all I need to do is make sure that the reticle collides with the physical objects in the scene
sharp hazel
Raycast?
pale ivy
Probably I'm not gonna lie
pale ivy
Quick Ask
Did they change the cast_to parameter for RayCast2D to the target_postion parameter
if so, what the hell does cast_direction even do now, since it still allows it as an option, yet there's nothing in the Godot Documents that even mentions it
this is what it looks like so far
the reticle is supposed to stop when colliding with the physical terrain, but it's not
and for some reason the dotted line indicator gets all buggy when I point downwards
important to note that I have it print a message to console whenever the raycast is detected colliding with something