A basic example of pushing a ball around!
For my game, I wanted to learn how to push around a soccer ball.
At first, my player was fully stopping when they hit the soccer ball, and as a result, it wasn't moving very far:
I asked for help in the Godot Community Discord, and a community member pointed me in the right direction:
you can put the ball on collision layer 2 exclusively, that should fix it your characterbody only masks layer 1 by default so it wont be colliding against the ball (stopping) but still push it
Here's a basic demo of how to push around a soccer ball. The trick is to make sure that "Ball" is on collision layer 2:
( Thank you @Codimon for your help! đź’– )