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Rabbitnap
I have made an virtual joystick. Now I want ist to be registered when you move it in a direction. For example when I move it to the right side I want it to be registered as an right arrow key press just as it us handled with a real joystick in the input manager
It is possible. I personally followed this video to make the joystick and then edited the function to translate the offset of the front sprite in relation to back sprite to a simple Vector2 (so for example, (0,1) is right and (-1,1) is up and right). From there it’s just a matter of a function to react to these values in realtime and press and release the buttons (with Input.action_press() and Input.action_release())
I know it sounds quite confusing so here is my joystick.gd script and a picture of nodes placement.
(Front sprite is the circular one that moves, and the Back sprite is the static one)
I have this saved as a custom scene so I can drop it in wherever I need a virtual joystick. And here’s a gif to see the result.
If it’s still unclear or if you want me to clarify something just ask.
Thanks man, I couldn’t find a way to press a button true code. You helped me a lot.
Rabbitnap | 2020-07-19 21:43
Hey bud, i have a weird problem. My joystick just wont move at all when ever i put it in the main game scene. So i tried to uses yours… and got the same problem it just won’t move. Do you have any clue why it isn’t moving?