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Godot 4 Game Development Projects - Second Edition
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Space is filled with more dangers than just rocks. In this section, you’ll create an enemy spaceship that will periodically appear and shoot at the player.
When the enemy appears, it should follow a path across the screen. It’ll also look better if it’s not just a straight line. To keep it from looking too repetitive, you can create multiple paths and randomly choose one when the enemy appears.
Create a new scene and add a Node. Name it EnemyPaths and save it. To draw the path, add a Path2D node. As you saw earlier, this node allows you to draw a series of connected points. Selecting this node displays a new menu bar:
Figure 3.23: Path drawing options
These buttons let you draw and modify the path’s points. Click the one with the green + symbol to add points. Click to start the path somewhere just outside the game window, and then click a few more points to make a curve. Note that the arrows...