Questions tagged [movement]
A simple term for "translation", the change of position of an entity typically on the route of going from point A to point B.
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How can I efficiently load and unload regions of a world as the player moves?
I am creating a game with infinite terrain. Sections of the terrain are broken up into regions of fixed size for handling (similar to chunks in Minecraft). I would like to load and unload them as ...
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How do I make an isometric rpg movement system [closed]
I am making an isometric rpg(well not really making, I just have an idea) I’d like to start learning to code and first I would like to learn how to make a movement system like in the old infinity ...
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Flying AI shakes when chasing and avoiding obstacles simultaneously
I've got a problem with my flying AI in Unity. When it just chases a target it's ok, but my system contains avoiding obstacles so when it starts to do it, it shakes weirdly.
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Sprite chasing a target using move_towards_ip does not move
I'm trying to get a turtle sprite to chase a falling algae sprite utilising Pygame's inbuilt functionality. I have spent many hours reviewing questions and answers and suspect I'm missing some ...
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Determining meters per second in scaled terrain
I have a terrain with a width of 199 and height of 99 and I'm scaling this train by 500. What would be 1 meter in the new terrain, would it be 500? I'm trying to move my character in meters per second ...
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How to make redirected player movement respond to same key?
I have a 2d game (Godot 4) with different rooms with portals to go between them, and some portals redirect the direction of the player while still holding the same key. I have that working so far, but ...
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How to code glider movement in 2D? (Godot 4)
So in Minecraft, you have the elytra. When you look up, the character moves up. When you look down, the character moves down. The speed you move forward depends on the angle you are moving. I want to ...
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Move UI element by a specific amount relative to current screen resolution
I want to achieve the following:
At some point in the game, the UI Image (dashed rectangle) should shift towards the right edge of the screen (black outline rectangle) up until the part of the image, ...
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Why are the transform game objects moving away from the snail when they are swapping their direction?
I am making a game in which I created a character (main player) and another character(snail). Now the snail will move on the ground, when there is no ground detected it will change its direction. I ...
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KinematicBody2D stutters/moves back and forth
I'm working in Godot 3.5, and trying to set up a navigation polygon for my kinematic body to mode around inside, but when I try to send it to some point, the body 'stutters'/moves back and forth in ...
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How to make enemy turn to face the player while attacking?
I need help making this code work. It is made for the enemy AI to move and patrol, chase the player and attack the player.
The problem is when it starts to attack the player, then the player can move ...
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PyGame moves object in one direction but not in the opposite one
I'm having trouble with a PyGame animation I'm writting. I have a Ball class that defines an object that moves on the screen and bounces on the edges. I initialize ...
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How to use WASD to move camera between a collection of position marker objects?
How can I move one camera between two positions along the cardinal directions?
Using W/A/S/D keys, I want to move the camera from one empty object to another on the xy plane. Those empty objects ...
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Move object continuously along y with optional movement along x
I am looking for a sensible way to continuously move an object downwards with constant speed while moving left or right by some amount x when the user presses the left or right arrow keys.
Basically, ...
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Avoiding nausea when spinning
I'm working on a top down space sim where the ship fills most of the screen and has a fixed heading, i.e. the front of the ship is always at the top. However, there are stars in the background, so ...
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Trying to get a Character to face the direction based keys pressed left or right instantly
I finished up my movement script which is finally working fantastically. The only issue I am having is getting the character to face the direction when I press either left or right on the keyboard. ...
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applying gravity breaks entirely this AI movement code
I'm calling this function every 0.078 seconds so about at 13 fps using a timer connected to _ready()
this way my game can easily run over 400 enemy units with ...
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How do i put an entities x,y and z coordinates to a variable(?) in Blitz3D?
I'm making a TEST 3d platformer where the camera follows the player from above. Normally I would make the camera move at the same time when the player moved, for example:
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How to carry other players and NPCs and Objects?
In my game you don't have inventory slots, you can hold two things if your player has 2 arms and so on, you can hold more things if you equip a bags on your belt or backpacks... and you can carry even ...
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When to use InverseTransformDirection in Unity
I want to know when to use InverseTransformDirection.
Unity documentation says : "Transforms a direction from world space to local space". Honestly, it is not clear for me.
I came across ...
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Rigid bodies sliding off slopes
Kinematic bodies have a simple class that makes the player not slide on slopes, but for rigid bodies? I tried using rays and areas, either to lock the player on an axis or to just straight up disable ...
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How to adjust parabolic trajectory to hit the same point with the same launch angle, but faster speed?
I'm launching a ballistic projectile similar to this sample.
The projectile moves from the launch point to the target point, but it's too slow. When I try to increase the speed without changing the ...
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How to implement the movement system from SharkBite Bay Adventure?
I'm using Godot Engine 4. The game SharkBite Bay Adventure is a top-down 2D car game, which can be properly played in Bluemaxima's Flashpoint (this app has 2 versions: you can download the lightweight ...
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How to make Cardial Directions relative to the camera
Lets suppose tha my movement method my W goes towards north(just figuretvly) and my E goes towards east, If I rotate my camera to east I want my W to insted goes to north, goes towards east and my E ...
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Orient a player mid-air to their predicted landing orientation in Unity?
Ever played Skate 3? When dropping into a ramp, or if you're midair, your player's up direction aligns to the normal of the surface you're about to land on, while respecting the player's forward ...
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How do I make my player rotate in the current direction of my camera in Unity using C#?
I have a player with third and first person camera, I want to make my player move in the direction that my camera is looking at when I hold the right mouse in third person and move(Like my player is ...
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Creating enemies that slide along a patrol path
I have created a 2D game in Godot 3.5.2. I have enemy scene which has node as Area2D and child as AnimatedSprite and Collision. I want to create enemy movement like in Pixel Adventure:
But I am not ...
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Mouse-Click Movement Using Unity NavMeshAgent Causes Stuttering Upon Reaching Destination
Alrighty, so I've seen a lot of stuttering-related questions about NavMeshAgents but my problem is a little specific to my use case since it has nothing to do with <...
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Children of a rigidbody are able to move through the floor
I have a problem with rigidbody collisions atm. I have a parent object that has a rigidbody and I am spawning objects that become that parent object's child (the children are all spheres). These ...
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Steering Behaviors in Discrete Space
I'm interested in Steering Behaviors by Craig W. Reynolds in a project but my agents are in a discrete grid (think Minecraft). Essentially all agents internally have continuous speed, accelerations ...
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Unreal 5 Actor Can't Move
I have an Unreal 5 actor with some basic blueprints involving a "Simple Move to Location".
I've created a NavMeshBoundsVolume, and both the actor and destination point are inside it. The ...
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How to efficiently move a unit to a given 2D target position using tank controls?
I am looking for a simple algorithm that can move a unit as fast as possible to a given target position. The unit can only move using the "tank controls": it can turn in both directions and ...
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Relaitve Velocity Obstacles
I am reading Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles for Real-Time, Multi-Agent navigation and I have trouble to understand the main part of the paper:
Let's take an example,...
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Is it a good idea to solve movement of solid bodies with restrictions (e.g. connections) by shifting tangentially and projecting normally in phase sp?
I am trying to code my first 2d game with physics (in python), and so far my physics simulation works with solid bodies. I want to add connections, for example, so the player can rotate an arm and ...
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Mapping world objects and camera to a sonar/radar/minimap
I have a Doom-like FPS game in Unity, with 3D objects laid out across the map in essentially 2D coordinates. The game scene is 3D with the usual setup where the camera is showing what the player sees.
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Dealing with Camera "bump" during floating origin reset
I am asking this question because my Google searches have yielded little results. My problem is basically this: I've implemented a very simple smooth follow on my camera to trail the player (who is ...
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How to launch a 2D character toward the mouse position?
I want to launch a 2D character using the mouse, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to get the character to move left or right during the launch. Its as if the code is ignoring the X axis ...
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How to implement movement with move speed in a multiplayer game?
I'm developing a MMO RPG using Rust and bevy both in the client and the server, which means that I'm using ECS on both sides. My game is tile based, so each tile is a point in my map in the server, ...
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It's hard to move characters properly in Unity
I want to replicate the movement of a Team Fortress Scout in Unity, so the movement of the player must fall naturally, not slide, and not pass through objects. It must also be affected by ...
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How to change GameObject position using new Input System?
I was asking myself if you could change the position of a game object with the input of the player, with the new input system.
That is, with something like this:
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Walk on any surface, how to make a defined space around character not pass through any collider
I'm working on an 3D insect/spider controller that will walk on any time of surface. Currently my character scan the environment around him by shooting a very big number of spherecasts and based on ...
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Cube moving in a laggy way
The movement on its own works perfectly fine, the problem is just that when I move diagonal, then the cube (the Player) is kinda lagging around and you can see its pixels moving to the edges of it. ...
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Kinematic Rigidbody parented to a moving Rigidbody gets displaced
I have a kinematic Rigidbody parented to another non-kinematic moving Rigidbody. Render-wise, the child Rigidbody does not jitter, nor does it inherit any displacement changes from the parent ...
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Switching to idle set of animations smoothly from walking animations in 2D tile-based RPG
Currently developing a 2D RPG that has Pokemon/early Final Fantasy-like movement mechanics, where the player/NPCs move in units of tiles.
My game logic for handling keypresses is as follows:
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Solving obtuse interior corner collisions
I'm having some trouble solving collisions in obtuse interior corners.
In the above image, the black circle is the initial position, the red is the projected movement (straight into the corner), the ...
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Arrive Steering Behaviour velocity not decreasing properly
I'm trying to implement the Arrive Steering Behaviour with acceleration from AI For Games 3rd edition by Ian Millington (Algorithm on Page 63)
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6DoF camera control with a toggleable gimbal/horizon line lock and auto-upright button
I have a smooth 6DoF controller from following a tutorial (this is the tutorial) and tweaked it to be exactly what I want with a few exceptions.
I found myself wanting the ability to lock the horizon ...
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Different approaches to rigid-body movement
I'm a beginner at game development and I'm building my own physics game engine to grasp the concepts.
I wonder if there are different approaches to moving and rotating a rigid body. For example, ...
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How to allow a CharacterController to pass through walls?
I'm developing a game in which bot-controlled billboards pursue you.
If the bot gets stuck behind a wall for a while, not able to catch the player, I want the bot to pass through the wall.
I'm using a ...
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