Easy Look At Mouse Script in Godot - Godot Quick Tips

In this super quick godot tutorial I will teach you how to make a node look at the current mouse position.
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[@uheartbeast]

Cool series :) I look forward to more.

[@CodeWithTom]

Thank you so much man 😁

[@popadom4529]

@HeartBeast @CodewithTom how do you look away from mouse

[@reymarckessaguirre5082]

@@popadom4529 first, try to get the position of the mouse with get_global_mouse_position(). Then, store it in a Vector2 variable. After that, use the function var lookingAwayFrom = Vector2(get_global_mouse_position()) var lookingAt = -lookingAwayFrom func _process(delta): look_at(lookingAt)

[@reymarckessaguirre5082]

@@popadom4529 i am not sure about my solution, but it only takes a few seconds to try, nothing much to lose.

[@popadom4529]

@@reymarckessaguirre5082 Thanks

[@mitchellmiller3843]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for the quick and simple explanation!

[@aZaamBie135]

Thanks so much! I never knew it was that simple.

[@CodeWithTom]

You're very welcome.

[@lonewolfenock3527]

Simple and to the point. Subbed.

[@dejo095]

Hey this is awesome stuff! you got yourself another subscriber buddy 😁

[@pietertalens1256]

Great video! I'd love to see how someone might incorporate this with an isometric sprite with 8 directions. Do you think you could make such a video?

[@Goleko420]

How do you do this in 3D though? I've been trying over and over and cannot get this accomplished

[@ovaldreamx4397]

Very usefull!! Some ideas for next episodes could be shooting things, draw vectors of the body on screen and spawners

[@ovaldreamx4397]

just subbed btw

[@xyonblade]

So here's a question, I got a scene working fine where I have a sprite looking at the mouse, but now I've instanced that scene onto a player scene three times, and now the sprite that was instanced is not looking at the mouse, I'm guessing it has something to do with only the scene being played having an active _process function? If I wanted to have multiple instances of say, a turret that are attached to the player, is it possible setting up a script or something on the original scene that then works when you instance it onto the player?

[@malinduumeshan3119]

I switched unity to godot 2 weeks ago.I remember I wrote 4-5 lines of code to do the same thing in unity with C#

[@CodeWithTom]

Gdscript is a very powerful and succinct language 😁

[@xyonblade]

I have been looking specifically for this for a while, forgot how to make weapons systems "look" at the mouse which might not be where the player is moving, this should help solve that problem. :D

[@yourkodi3945]

Its crazy how this is and if you compare it to the same code in Unity, the godot version is sooo simple compared to unity version (well look at mouse code at least!)

[@RedcodeSg]

Thanks, this is really useful.

[@CodeWithTom]

You're very welcome 😁

[@mina7572]

What about launching a spawned objects in a straight line, towards the cursor?

[@champhenryduco4651]

thank you please keep this up

[@FrancoisSchnell]

Great serie idea, keep it up! :)

[@CodeWithTom]

Cheers Francois

[@aamir2694]

@@CodeWithTom thank you very much

[@NeZversSounds]

WOW, awesome!

[@coconurt7153]

How can I get in an if statment that under a certain angle(when the mouse Is pointing uowards, so at the back of my player) the line has to be invisibile?

[@TheTaxicomics]

Thanks a bunch!

[@DexonRax]

Man you are genious

[@diasdasilva5096]

i have a sprite of a bow and i want it to look at the mouse but it never looks right: the mouse can be somewhere and the bow will be pointing elsewhere(also my game is a platformer). please help me fix it

[@thoaihoquang1578]

But how to get the mouse position in vector3 and Vector2 like x,y or z

[@lorenzoguzzo1354]

great video really useful

[@CodeWithTom]

Really glad you found it useful Lorenzo!

[@jonus5331]

I was trying to do this by calculating vectors and using arc cos...

[@user-qc1mc2ly8j]

My character rotates slightly away from the mouse, any idea as to why?

[@valentas000]

How to Clamp that Rotation ? Can you add Code 2 that

[@calebross6052]

Hey, when I do this the player looks at a position that is on the left of my mouse, instead of directly at my cursor. Do you know how to fix this?

[@calebross6052]

Nvm, it was the way my sprite was facing :(

[@zelef2502]

I like it !

[@trakinado2564]

cool but you dont really need the func process delta in the script to it work

[@mrsupertash]

How do I change the position the sprite is facing? For example a rocket ship would be facing up when I import the asset. Do I need to import it sideways or add a rotate 90° method somewhere so that the top is facing the mouse and not the right side. What is best practice here?

[@Zombozy]

Assuming you'd like the tip of your rocket to face the mouse cursor you would make it drawn horizontally, with the tip facing right. I had the same exact issue, except with a sword. Here's an example with a sword: -|========> After flipping my sprite like that, as opposed to having it straight up, it works perfectly. (hope my really cool sword picture helped)

[@mrsupertash]

@@Zombozy Thanks, the sword picture is excellent! Yeah, I mean that seems to be the intuitive workaround. I'm just wondering because I couldn't find in the Godot docs anywhere that the right side is the face. Since that is apparently what's happening, it should be stated somewhere and also why to know how to handle this best. When I look at tile sets on itch.io for example things like spaceships would be facing up, not to the right. I can't imagine the best way to handle this is to flip every single asset 90 degrees before being able to use these.

[@nhnova1452]

thank you

[@Eireguy_]

thanik you, im making a shooter game :)

[@JoseRoberto-wt8vz]

Muito obrigado, funcionou perfeitamente!

[@applebeestacos4840]

Can you make a Undertale/Earthbound like RPG in godot? (With gdscript)

[@mistadude]

Of course (sorry for the late comment)

[@BeSerious.studio_official]

how can you do this in multiplayer?

[@DineshYadav-iv5jo]

Thanks

[@techofhappiness395]

It was awesome. Can we use this code for touch screen controller ?

[@CodeWithTom]

Good question, I haven't actually tried :)

[@techofhappiness395]

@@CodeWithTom Try and Get Success ❤️

[@popadom4529]

Does anyone know how to look away from the mouse?

[@devinbelver7124]

technically you can just rotate or flip the visual so the back of the node is "looking at" the mouse

[@justash123]

well and thats how you create a masterpeice

[@oghene2778]

Me over here thinking you need to use schrodinger's equation to find the superpostion of the mouse then use entropy to calculate the total efficiency of the keyboard before dividing it by 0: This guy writing 2 lines of code:

[@beeshings]

Bro what?! This sh*t would take a whole afternoon to make properly in Unity... In Godot it's ONE LINE.

[@interrobang9515]

when half the video is advertising

[@ClipSaam]

wtfff its just!!!!

[@samangolahmadi2710]

1 line of code 2 mins of talking