Tanks & Projectiles

[Connors]

I've been looking around in Google because I wanted to try to make a tank battle game. 2 tanks fire back and forth until someone is blown up.
I was looking for a good way to simulate the projectiles and i found this page.
 
http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs201/NOTES/chap02/projectile.html
 
I bring it up because I wanted to know if these functions will work in SC yet. If not I'm sure there are simpler ways but this would be realistic.
Also I know Gandolf was looking at physics.

[Gnome]

Woah. That seems to be some sort of trig. Gan can help you simulate that, but the problem with that is declaring the variables. Unless you look at that and can tell how to declare each thing. You won't be able to declare the varibles.


EDIT:

I didn't scroll down, seems simple as long as you know your formulas.

[GMG Mike]

SilverCreator has the extra Trig commands now so you can do all that fancy stuff.

[EqwanoX]

that stuff is to fancy for me, i just go with:

let fall=power   //-100, so projectile will go up
let weight=3    //how fast it falls on y axis
let speed=speed    //how fast it travels on x axis

let grav=grav-weight
let fall=fall-grav
if speed> 10 then let speed=speed-weight  //add a speed limit so it doesnt end up taveling in the opposite direction
pushsprite projectile, speed, fall

[Al Staffieri]

Yeah. There's usually no need to get really fancy. Keep it simple. It will run faster, be less code, and still probably do what you want.

[WarHampster]

OP - all the functions used work in SC, all you have to do is translate the code.

[Connors]

ok thanks guys! I think i'll try the simpler method for now, i was just curious.

However, I don't think I'll need to worry about speed too much in this type of game as there isn't much else going on so I may try both methods at some point.