Rotating Sprites

[Gnome]

I'm redoing trench warfare, but I need to know how to make a sprite point towards your mouse, not move but point. Like a guy aiming  his gun.

[Tireas Dragon]

I don't think there is any code for that the most you could do is probably use a loop script and make it change sprites when your mouseX is high and low.

[Gnome]

That would take a LOOONG time, but I guess it's my only choice. :-/

[Tireas Dragon]

Not really you just make three sprites and split the board into three sections 1 shooting slightly up,the other shooting strait, and the last shooting slightly down

[Silverwind]

It's actually incredibly easy. Here:

gunsprite$ = "Gun Pointing Forward"
IF MouseVert < 110 THEN gunsprite$ = "Gun Pointing Up"
IF MouseVert > 220 THEN gunsprite$ = "Gun Pointing Down"
SPRITE 1 50 165 $gunsprite$$

That on a repeat loop should work.

EDIT:

Ah, TD has already beat me to the explanation.

[Tireas Dragon]

I may have beaten you to it but you wrote a sample.

[EqwanoX]

its easy, but you have to have seperate sprites for each movement, just have a up and down angle and a middle and put this code in the mousemove section

if mouseY > 200 then
recreatesprite
end if
if mouseY < 100 then
recreatesprite
end if
if mouseY < 200 then
if mouseY > 100 then
recreatesprite
end if
end if

[Silverwind]

No mousemove section in GM Eq. That would be pretty handy though... (nods knowledgeably at Al)

[Gnome]

This is great guys, I'm working on it now.

EDIT: Wait, how do make a loop that lasts till the end of the card?

[Silverwind]

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.................... what?

I don't understand. Click the Loop Script check box in the card script of a card, that will cause your code to loop endlessly. Is that not what you're trying to do?

[Al Staffieri]

No mousemove section in GM Eq. That would be pretty handy though... (nods knowledgeably at Al)

I just added ON MOUSEMOVE to my list of possible improvements. Thanks.