Need help with math

Hi everyone,

please bear with me

I'm not a programmer, and my math is pretty much zero at best

I'm creating this mech shooter platformer,

and I encountered some trouble with the gun aiming in my game

it's not really a big problem really, but the curiosity is eating me

so I created a gun, where the origin of the sprite is at the bottom,

and an image point for spawning the bullet.

I have created an action to set the angle to point to mouse position,

so it looks like this:

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/1NvQQHq.jpg" border="0" />

now, it is working as it should,

but there's a bit problem with the accuracy this way, the gun won't shoot exactly where the pointer at.

So what I need is for the sprite to point from the image point, but still rotate on its origin

so I figured i would need to point the angles toward this position instead:

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/9V24xs6.jpg" border="0" />

is there some way I can retrieve this position using equation?

or can this be achieved in some other way instead?

Supposing your image point is index 1, just set the angle of the gun to :

angle(Gun.ImagePointX(1), Gun.ImagePointY(1), Mouse.x, Mouse.y)

If your pivot is the origin point, get the angle of the origin point, otherwise, it will give you the angle of the hypotenuse of the triangle between the origin, the image point and the mouse..

Hi Magistross thanks!

It works!

I wasn't aware of that expression,

but when the mouse get to close to the image point,

the gun starts shaking violently,

any idea what might caused this? or how to prevent this?

*edit:

nevermind, I found the solution

by putting another image point in the back of the gun

thanks for all the help! :)

Lolz ! I was wondering what you meant by "shaking violently" so I tried it. I laughed so hard when my "gun" started behaving like a fan ! <img src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Good thing you found a way around that issue though, because I don't know why it does that ! <img src="smileys/smiley5.gif" border="0" align="middle" />