Actor pos relative to other actor not working

JagonApps

I want this actor to stay fixed to almost the edge of the corner of the other actor, my file is shown in the video video here:

I have used an attribute to keep the position x and y (+ a bit to get in corner) & rotation to big box

How do I do this?

Cheers

Max

JagonApps

Thanks, I have been trying this out and not 100% sure how to do it...
from the original 2 equations...
self.position.x = game.sceneX+magnitude(self.offsetX ,self.offsetY)*cos( self.Rotation )
self.position.y = game.sceneY+magnitude(self.offsetX ,self.offsetY)*sin( self.Rotation )
I thought this...

game.sceneX was for the location of the big square actor's X position
self.offsetX was the offset in x direction from centre of big square
* i assume is multiply

and mine didn't work out quite right...
did i do it right?

Many thanks

Max

JagonApps

scrap that I was right, I forgot to turn on referring the rotation to the big box...

Cheers uptimistik, I would have never worked out what to type into google anyhow!

JagonApps

wait one second...sorry to mess anyone around, but I have realised I did get it wrong...what would it be?

JagonApps

Yes, I have added you, thanks, although I'm afraid my mic or webcam isn't working, but I should be able to screen share and use chat

JagonApps

Just to clear things up for anyone who has seen this post..
After some very kind help from uptimistik, he deduced that the formula needed to be:

game.Win lvl box-pos.x +magnitude( self.offsetX , self.offsetY )*sin(( self.Rotation )-atan( self.offsetX / self.offsetY ))

game.Win lvl box-pos.y -magnitude( self.offsetX , self.offsetY )*cos(( self.Rotation )-atan( self.offsetX / self.offsetY ))

Thanks again to uptimistik, I recommend everyone to check him out

RThurman

@JagonApps and @uptimistik -- I've created some 'new and improved' examples of how to do this. (The formulas you list above are useable, but can be confusing.) Here is a link for a better example:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nc9rawgb9y3yn5z

JagonApps

Thanks RThurman, I'll probably just stick with what I have hot as it is now working perfectly, but may well use this way next time!

Cheers

Max