how to "jitter" a position node2d

Question

So what I want to do is to move a node2d's position up and down couple of pixels constantly at intervals to create a jittering effect. What I have so far is a function "onMove" that gets called every 1 second. Or is there any other way of achieving this effect?

  func _ready():
        var viewport = get_viewport().get_rect().size
        x = viewport.x
        y = viewport.y
        set_global_pos(Vector2(x/2,y/4))

        var timer = Timer.new()
        timer.set_timer_process_mode(0)
        timer.set_wait_time(1)
        timer.connect("timeout", self, "onMove")
        add_child(timer)
        timer.start()

        #Sets frame updates
        set_fixed_process(true)

        #Sets UI
        set_process(true)

        #Set inputs 
        set_process_input(true)

    func onMove():
        print("here")

Answer 1

Thats one way to do it, there are always different ways to do things. Others that come to my mind:

• use an animation player
• use a sin() function to offset the translation, you can use clamp() to make it more jittery and less smooth

Comments

Thank you! I've went with the animation player. So much cleaner.