How do i remove smooth turning in Pathfinding

Hello, I'm making a retro style game and ran into a visual problem with pathfinding, My objects turn very smooth.

Is there any way of removing the smoothness of an object turning to follow a path? Can I restrict the objects to face only 8 angles

Hey WeariedCoffee2,

for this you have to combine Pathfinding with another Movement Behavior. The Object calculates the path with Pathfinding and moves along the path with 8 Direction, for example. Here is one way it can be done:

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I'm not really sure what's going on with the above response but yeah you can either increase the rotation speed so it's no longer 'smooth' but snaps to face the target location, or you can disable the rotation altogether and set the angle of the object to the pathfinding moving angle which would have pretty much the same visual effect.

Hi plinkie,

that would work too, but he asked for an 8 direction movement. To restrict the obejets movement to 0°, 45°, 90° etc. using 8Direction is an easy solution without too much coding. If you use Pathfinding only, the object can always move in every angle. I do not know that you can limit this without spending too much effort.