Best way to Have a Rotate to angle and then Shoot

Portyman

I want to be able to touch the screen and have a actor rotate to that position and then fire. I have the rotate, but how should i do the fire? I have run to completion checked, but the missile fires to early. Help would be appreciated.

Thanks

scitunes

If you use vectorToAngle to get the angle between the shooter and the touch X and Y you can use rotate to angle (as opposed to rotate to position).

What I would do is have an angle attribute called self.shootAngle and a boolean called self.shoot

Then have a rule that says

when touch is pressed
change self.shoot to true
change self.shootAngle to VectorToAngle(self.position.X-touch1.X, self.positionY-touch1Y)
Then rotate to angle self.shootangle

rule- when self.shoot is true AND
when self.rotation = self.shootAngle
Spawn bullet (spawn angle of zero relative to actor)
change self.shoot to false

should work

Portyman

That worked perfectly. A side note in case someone else is reading.

I nested the 2nd rule to mAke it more efficient. Small change but I have gotten far into projects and needed the extra fps

Ie

Rule

When shoot is true

Rule

When self rotation is = to shoot angle

Thanks a bunch. This really did the job