yh17 / e05a-input

An exercise in Godot to experiment with different kinds of input

E05-Input

Complete the assignement that allow mouse to show current x and y, also allow spaceship moved by WASD This is an exercise to help you become accustomed to how Godot treats user input.

Instructions are as follows:

• Fork and Clone this repository. Choose a location where it will be downloaded on your computer.
• Open Godot. In the Project Manager, select "Import".
• Click "Browse", navigate to the folder you downloaded when you cloned the repository, and select the project.godot file. Press "Import & Edit"
• In the Scene panel, you should see a Game node with three children. In the Info node, you should see an Alpha node (the background for the label) and a Label node. The Label node has an attached script. Edit that now.
• In the _physics_process function, your assignment is to update the text of the label with the current x and y coordinates of the mouse pointer:
  • To get the current position of the mouse, you can ask the viewport for that value:
    • get_viewport().get_mouse_position()
    • This will return the value as a Vector2 object. You can then access the x and y properties:

      var mouse_pos = get_viewport().get_mouse_position()
      print(mouse_pos.x)
    

    • For more information about mouse and input coordinates, you can read the tutorial here
    • You can also see more information about Vectors in Godot or read the documentation about Vector2
  • You will then need to update the Label's text with the current x, y position of the mouse. Remember that the Text property will require you to convert your values to a string.

    text = str(mouse_pos.x) + ", " + str(mouse_pos.y)
  

• The next step will be to move the Ship based on keyboard control:
  • Under the Project menu, select Project Settings
  • The second tab over should be "Input Map". Select this tab.
  • In the action box at the top of the window, add a new input: left
  • To the right of the new "left" item in the list, press the plus icon. Select "Key"
  • In the "Please Confirm…" modal that appears, press the "A" key and hit OK.
  • Repeat this process to add inputs for right, up, and down. Assign W to up, D to right, and S to down.
  • Close the Project Settings window, and then open the script attached to the Ship node.
  • in the _physics_process(delta): function, replace pass with the following lines:

  if Input.is_action_pressed("left"):
      position.x = position.x - 10
  

  • Make sure that the function is properly indented, and that you are using tabs instead of spaces
  • Repeat this, adding conditions for the other three inputs you created. Note: to move up, you will need to add a negative value to position.y.
• Run the project, and make sure the program is behaving as you would expect.
• Update the LICENSE and README.md, commit your changes, and push them back to GitHub. Turn in the URL of your repository on Canvas.