How to make player follow mouse while still colliding with objects

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By Swagilini

I’m brand new to coding in general (had a class for java in highschool) so any and all suggestions are welcome.

But I’m trying to make a simple ping-pong game as a learning experiment, and I want the player to follow the mouse with a slight lag behind the exact mouse position. I’ve got that working. However adding move_and_slide makes the player fly off screen, and move_and_collide crashes the game.

extends KinematicBody2D

func _physics_process(_delta: float) → void:
if position != get_global_mouse_position():
position = lerp (position, get_global_mouse_position(), .1)

this is my player code so far

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: pouing

Try the following:

func _physics_process(_dt: float) -> void:
    var new_position = position
    if position != get_global_mouse_position():
        new_position = lerp(position, get_global_mouse_position(), .1)
    move_and_collide(new_position - position)  # relative position vector

or

func _physics_process(dt: float) -> void:
    var new_position = position
    if position != get_global_mouse_position():
        new_position = lerp(position, get_global_mouse_position(), .1)
    move_and_slide((new_position - position) / dt)  # linear velocity

move_and_collide and move_and_slide update the position for you, so if you use them, you no longer need to upda†e position explicitly.