Screensaver: Drift

Part of the Nodes and Scenes section of Coddy's Godot journey. Lesson 24 of 27.

In the next four lessons you build a screensaver: a logo that drifts around the screen, bounces off the edges and changes color on every bounce.

The scene has a dark sky and a Logo node with a white plate, a shadow and a Label. The logo's modulate tints the plate blue. Its script, logo.gd, does nothing yet.

The first step is a velocity. Keep it in a node variable, so later steps can change it when the logo bounces.

Challenge

Easy

Add a node variable velocity, set to Vector2(200, 90).
Move the logo by velocity on every frame, per second. It drifts down and to the right, and off the screen for now.

Try it yourself

extends Node2D

func _process(delta):
	pass

Test yourself

This lesson includes a short quiz. Start the lesson to answer it and track your progress.

All lessons in Nodes and Scenes

1Your First Godot Game

What Is Godot?Ready Runs Once Print in Godot The Scene Tree Set a Position Move a Node Once

4Finding Nodes

The Dollar Sign Node Paths Onready Change a Color Hide and Show

2Every Frame

Process Runs Every Frame Delta Pixels per Second Move Diagonally Spin With Rotation Grow With Scale

5Project: Screensaver

Screensaver: DriftScreensaver: Side Walls

Screensaver: Top and Bottom

Screensaver: New Colors

3Values You Can Tune

Variables on a Node Constants Export Variables Vector2 Math Wrap Around the Screen Your Own Functions

Practice on your own: Godot playground