So imagine you place a rectangle actor in a scene, I want the player to be able to rotate the position of it. it won't move relevant to the scene, just rotate. For instance, almost like when you in gamesalad can rotate an actor when making the game. Thanks
@joelloyd said:
So imagine you place a rectangle actor in a scene, I want the player to be able to rotate the position of it. it won't move relevant to the scene, just rotate. For instance, almost like when you in gamesalad can rotate an actor when making the game. Thanks
@joelloyd said:
Thanks socks, looks like I'll make it a plain colour then, but for future purposes. Never applied an angular offset, is this easy? Thanks a lot
It's not complex at all, just some basic adding and subtracting of angles, you basically want the actor to know what its current rotation is and then when you rotate the actor it rotates itself relative to that current rotation, rather than simply relative to where the mouse is . .
So it should work something like this:
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Make a 'real' attribute in the actor, let's call it 'OffSet'.
Rule: When touched is pressed:
Change Attribute 'Offset' to: vectorToAngle (mouse.X-self.X, mouseY-self.Y)-self.Rotation
Constrain Attribute Self.Rotation to: vectorToAngle (mouse.X-self.X, mouseY-self.Y)-Offset
. . . . . . . .
Might need to check that's all right when I get the chance, but I'm pretty sure that'll work just fine.
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What do you mean rotated by the player? How do you want it to be controlled?
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So imagine you place a rectangle actor in a scene, I want the player to be able to rotate the position of it. it won't move relevant to the scene, just rotate. For instance, almost like when you in gamesalad can rotate an actor when making the game. Thanks
When touch it pressed:
Constrain Rotation to vectorToAngle (game.Mouse.Position.X - self.Position.X , game.Mouse.Position.Y - self.Position.Y)
(this works with a plain coloured actor, but if you include an image then you'd need to introduce an angular offset).
Thanks socks, looks like I'll make it a plain colour then, but for future purposes. Never applied an angular offset, is this easy? Thanks a lot
It's not complex at all, just some basic adding and subtracting of angles, you basically want the actor to know what its current rotation is and then when you rotate the actor it rotates itself relative to that current rotation, rather than simply relative to where the mouse is . .
So it should work something like this:
. . . . . . . .
Make a 'real' attribute in the actor, let's call it 'OffSet'.
Rule: When touched is pressed:
Change Attribute 'Offset' to:
vectorToAngle (mouse.X-self.X, mouseY-self.Y)-self.Rotation
Constrain Attribute Self.Rotation to:
vectorToAngle (mouse.X-self.X, mouseY-self.Y)-Offset
. . . . . . . .
Might need to check that's all right when I get the chance, but I'm pretty sure that'll work just fine.
Here you go, I've made you a quick demo project (attached) it works fine: