Auto rotate

Beanstine

How do you make an actor automatically rotate to a spot. like it would rotate to follow the mouse or touch?

ozboybrian

Create Rule.

When touch is pressed.
Behaviour - Rotate.

Simple hope that helps.

RThurman

You could use the 'Rotate to Position' Behavior. Then you can put the x and y coordinates of the position you want it to rotate/point to (like mouse.position.X and mouse.position.y).

Hope this helps!
RThurman

Beanstine

how will i tell the actor how far to rotate? i want it to be where i can move the mouse around an actor an it'll rotate so that it faces the mouse

Beanstine

ok didn't see ur post RThurman before i posted. thanks

RThurman

Rotate to Position will do that. (But you would need to put it inside a timer that fires 20 to 30 times a second.)

The other way is to use a constrain attribute behavior:
Constrain Attribute: self.Rotation To: VectorToAngle(vectorToAngle(game.Mouse.Position.X-self.Position.X, game.Mouse.Position.Y-self.Position.Y)

You build the expression in the expression editor using the drop down menus. (You can't simply copy and paste that expression.)

Hope this helps!
RThurman