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Asbestos
Asbestos

Reputation: 51

How to make Godot Camera2D not rotate along with the player?

I have a simple side-scrolling platformer where the player is a ball, and I want him to rotate as he moves to look like he is rolling.

However, I have a 2D Camera set up so the player is at the bottom center of the screen. I want the player to stay there, but when I move the player the camera moves in circles along with the player.

How can I stop the camera from moving around?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1654

Answers (1)

Theraot
Theraot

Reputation: 40170

A few options come to mind:

  • Presumably the player character is a PhysicsBody2D (e.g. a KinematicBody2D) with a Sprite or similar. And the Camera2D is a child of the PhysicsBody2D. Well, rotate the Sprite. That way the rotation does not affect the Camera2D. Of course, if the rotation is driven by physics, then this option isn't helpful.
  • Well, there is no reason to make the Camera2D be a child of your PhysicsBody2D to make it follow it. Instead, you can use a RemoteTransform2D that pushes its position (with update_position = true), but not its rotation (with update_rotation = false) to another Node2D. And then you make your Camera2D a child that another Node2D.
  • Let us say you don't want to have something as child of your character PhysicsBody2D at all. In that case, you can try a PinJoint2D. Set your node_a to the character PhysicsBody2D, and your node_b to some RigidBody2D, and then the Camera2D can be a child of the RigidBody2D.
  • Or you can solve it with a script. You can add a Node2D and on its _physics_process you have it copy the global_position of your character to its own global_position, so that it follows it. Then make the Camera2D a child of the Node2D.

Upvotes: 1

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