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[lusty oar]

I'm in a game jam where instead of making a game, you make a toy, something like that, so i was thinking of making legos but i want a thing where you place a lego and its there, and its like a snap to grid, but i dont know how to do it

[jolly bobcat]

Hi Christianguy This involves learning about:

• Coding: Variables
  How to save and change different pieces of data
  Variables belong to objects and nodes just like functions do (they are properties)
• Nodes
  Building blocks of your game, objects that have built-in functions and variables
  Nodes can "belong to" other nodes, which creates the tree-like structure that nodes are arranged in, parent/child relationships
  Example: A Sprite2D node with a lego PNG attached to its texture variable
• Scenes
  A way to save a collection of nodes
  An easy way to make a copy of a node/collection of nodes and spawn it into the game
  Example: A Sprite2D node, with a script "lego.gd" attached, saved as "lego.tscn" which you then
  load(), instantiate() and add_child() to finally add it to the main scene tree

var new_lego = load("res://lego.tscn").instantiate()
get_tree().current_scene.add_child(new_lego)

• Getting the mouse position
  get_global_mouse_position()
• Tilemaps
  An easy way to divide your game up into a grid
  It has functions like map_to_global() and global_to_map(), which convert back and forth between global coordinates and the coordinates of the grid/tilemap. This provides an easy way to center an object to a grid position.
  Example:

var grid_pos = global_to_map(get_global_mouse_position())
global_position = map_to_global(grid_pos)

• Getting input (detecting mouse click)
  Example: Set up a new input action in your project settings (button at top left of your screen), name it left_click, set up the keybind.
  Then do:

func _input(event):
  if Input.is_action_pressed("left_click"):
    # Spawn a new lego scene, and then snap its global position to the grid pos

[lusty oar]

I'll do this a tomorrow busy