How to make an actor shoot toward mouse click.

zombychicken

Hello all. I'm a game salad noob and I was wondering if there is a way to make an actor shoot toward a single mouse click. I am trying to make a space shooter where missiles spawn from a planet and shoot asteroids and the like. I can get the missiles to move towards every click, but I would like each missile to only move toward the location of the mouse click that also spawned said missile. Also, is there a way to make the missile rotate toward the click? Thanks

Socks

@zombychicken said:
Hello all. I'm a game salad noob and I was wondering if there is a way to make an actor shoot toward a single mouse click.

Use the Move To behaviour.

First store where the mouse has been clicked into two attributes, X and Y, then use the Move To behaviour to move to this X and Y location.

@zombychicken said:

I am trying to make a space shooter where missiles spawn from a planet and shoot asteroids and the like. I can get the missiles to move towards every click, but I would like each missile to only move toward the location of the mouse click that also spawned said missile.

Here's a quick demo file:

Link: https://www.mediafire.com/?2cdm33c72jtp2tp

@zombychicken said:

Also, is there a way to make the missile rotate toward the click? Thanks

Change self.rotation to:

vectorToAngle( game.Mouse.Position.X - self.Position.X , game.Mouse.Position.Y - self.Position.Y )

RThurman

Give something like this a try: