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2D All the way! / Sprite angles

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Khumba
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Hello, I'm making a top-down view RTS game, and I'm going to make the ships rotate (and point to where they're going to, obviously). However, since I'm using sprites not models, I don't know what the algorithm is to calculate the angle. Take this example: (X is the unit, Y is it's destination)
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It's obvious it has to point southeast, but how can I figure out what exact angle? Eg. maybe a function that you give an X&Y offset of the target from the source and returns the angle. Any help is appreciated. Thx!
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andrew11
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It took me a while, but I figured it out. This function will point any sprite to any point you specify. It will only work for DBPro because of the rotate sprite command.



The "atan" command is not very accurate so the sprite is not always exactly pointed the right direction (I'm trying to fix that).

Heres a demo:



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Khumba
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Ok, thx! I'm putting it into my code now, I had a little problem because I was using offset sprite() and that still rotates around the unoffsetted (is that a word?) center.
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Khumba
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(Oh, and on my first post, I told it to put a ton of spaces before the Y.)
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andrew11
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Posted: 5th Apr 2003 19:29 Edited at: 5th Apr 2003 19:30
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Yeah, this forum deletes spaces before words.


You could use [Center]

Y

X

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Khumba
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Oh, ok, thx. One way to make it more accurate is to change (in the example) x and y to x# and y#.
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andrew11
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Oh, I just noticed a mistake.
Heres the correct code:



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