get actor's current speed and direction

geoffy

Sorry if this has been asked before but I need to store and actors speed and the direction its moving in in a global attribute. Is that doable?

geoffy

Thanks for that. Any tips on how to calculate the current direction the actor is moving in from those attributes you listed above?

geoffy

Ok sorry I should have explained more. I have an actor that can rotate 360 degrees and then jump in any particular direction. When the actor jumps and then colides with another actor (different actor) i want the actor it has just collided with to move in the same direction the first actor is travelling in. I'm sure its pretty simple and I'm probably over-thinking it, but I'd appreciate any help you can provide. Cheers.

geoffy

yeah, but the speed will always be the same so thats not an issue atm.

geoffy

I mean the speed actor 1 is travelling at is always the same.

geoffy

I'll try and explain it and if that fails I'll send it to you to take a look if thats cool. Basically actor 1 gets clicked and then moves towards actor 2 (which is spinning in a fixed position). Actor 1 collides with actor 2 and then moves to the center of actor 2, then stops moving and begins spinning with actor 2. I then need both actors to continue travelling in the direction that actor 1 was travelling in, and to gradually slow down. There is no gravity in the scene. It's like ur looking down on the scene from above, so i don't think gravity will work in this type of scene. Hope that makes sense. Just fyi, I've got everything working up until the point of both actors moving together.

geoffy

Thanks mate, that seems to work. Like u said a bit of tweaking but I'm on the right track now. Cheers

hackmodford

I really wish that actors had an attribute called direction that would simply give the 0-360 degree equivelant of where they are going. I also wish that there was a simple attribute called speed that would give you the actors speed instead of the x and y velocities... oh well