Adrián Mato 🐙Jan 5, 2023
Getting my hands dirty again back into #gamedev ✨
Show threadAdrián Mato 🐙Jan 6, 2023

Substracting vectors to get a smoother movement. This avoids setting our `velocity` instantly to `desired_velocity`.

```
steering_vector = desired_vector - velocity
velocity = velocity + steering_vector * drag_factor
```

The drag factor controls how much inertia (slow) the movement will be until it hits the desired velocity.

Show threadAdrián Mato 🐙Jan 19, 2023
Mixing up collision detection and pre-made animations 💎✨
#godotengine #gamedev
Show threadAdrián Mato 🐙Jan 20, 2023
Careful: dumb turret ahead! Pew pew
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Show threadAdrián Mato 🐙

Using collision detection to target enemies. Turrets rotate and aim the latest target via an `angle lerp()` between two points 🔫

I also learned how to expose custom properties for different instances of the same object. Turrets shoot and aim at different speeds ✨

#godotengine #gamedev

Jan 20, 2023 at 6:41amElk
Show threadAdrián Mato 🐙Jan 21, 2023
I couldn't get the right angle to rotate a turret toward a target until I realized this 😂
Show threadAdrián Mato 🐙Jan 21, 2023
Implemented a small queue o handle multiple targets. Turrets won't shoot unless there's a target at range and will prioritize the first identified target 🎯
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Show threadAdrián Mato 🐙Jan 21, 2023
The turret can now shoot at multiple targets at once
Show threadAdrián Mato 🐙Jan 21, 2023

Same idea but aiming for the average point between all targets. I haven't used this since Math at school 🤪

Average is calculated similarly to regular numbers: add all vectors and divide by the total number of points.

Show threadJesús RascónJan 21, 2023
@adrianmg im loving these!
Show threadRaúl BarrosoJan 21, 2023
@adrianmg so cool! What language are you using for making that game?
Show threadAdrián Mato 🐙Jan 21, 2023
@raulb It's called `GDScript`, pretty similar to Python, build on top of Godot