About 'The Player Character'!

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In this video (objectives)…

1 Create a Player scene that inherits from the Character scene 2 Create a Player script that extends the Character script 3 make the player character move and look at the mouse position

After watching (learning outcomes)…

Inheriting scenes and extending scripts

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#2

I hate how easy it is to rotate things in Godot with “look_at()” function. I decided to try it myself before you showed it so i took mouse vector, player vector and x axis vector and started to try all sorts of weird math operations to get angle between cousor and x-axis in a player’s frame of reference. After half an hour i just continued with lesson and saw that cheat of a function.

That’s the thing with Godot - in most cases you don’t even need to know linear algebra in a situations that are obviously math-dependent and my first thought is “ok, let’s start writting down some vectors”.

This reply does not improve the conversation, but i had to write it down to release some of my disappointment. It’s supposed to be hard god damn it! :smiley:

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You should have seen me messing around with dot products for a week before realising I could just use angle_to()…

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