Constrain to position in a rotating actor

GreenfroggGames

Can somebody please help me understand this formula. I've constrained the position and rotation of my "head" actor to my "player" actor and it works.
Now if I want to change the constrained position of the "head" actor, I don't really know what to type in??
The "head" actor is 5050, the "player" actor is 128128

Socks

The ’36’ is the distance from the centre of PL 1 in pixels.
The '-220’ is the angle between the actor and PL 1 in degrees.

(-220° is a bit of a weird way of saying 140°, but acceptable nonetheless).

Socks

This might help you better understand how the numbers work:

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/62202/linkmachine/p1

While this is a more straightforward version of the same project:

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/75220/fast-constrain-linkmachine-v2/p1

GreenfroggGames

Thanks @Socks

Socks

@GreenfroggGames said:
Thanks @Socks

Here's a quick sketch . .

Red boxes are the bounding boxes of the actors, the small red squares are the centre points.

The angle between the two actors is 54°.

And the distance between the two centre points (the 'magnitude') is 217 pixels.

GreenfroggGames

@Socks Awesome and very helpful