Hi,
I have cobbled together a script which moves a sprite/enemy forwards, then backwards with flip. It's for a basic enemy patrol.
I've added the Position2D Nodes for start and finish markers, similar to the way I'd do it in Unity.
Note: in the screenshot it says MovingPlatform for the scene, don't worry about that, it will eventually say EnemyPatrol (just testing)
Here's the script (Excuse the odd formatting here)
extends Node2D
var startPoint = Vector2.AXIS_X
var endPoint = Vector2.AXIS_X
var time = 0
var timeDirection = 1
export var moveDuration = 2
func _ready():
startPoint = $Position2DStart.position
endPoint = $Position2DEnd.position
func _process(delta):
if (time > moveDuration or time < 0):
timeDirection *= -1
$Platform/AnimatedSprite.set_flip_h(true)
if (timeDirection > 0):
$Platform/AnimatedSprite.set_flip_h(false)
time += delta * timeDirection
var t = time / moveDuration
self.position = lerp(startPoint, endPoint, t)
The problem I have is that when I instance the scene into my main scene level, if I move the instanced scene root to the location I want, when I play the example, the enemy starts from 0,0.
If I expose the Chidlren's nodes and move the Position2DStart/Position2DEnd nodes instead, the enemy starts from those locations totally fine.
Why can't I just move the whole enemy scene node to do the same thing?
I'd like to move the whole thing so that I can see where my enemy is located in the editor, not just the markers.
