Rounding a bullet angle from a non rounded angle source?

Hello.

I have bullets being fired from a cannon, the cannon is a pre-drawn isometric sprite and its 40 animation frames are at 9 degree increments, the angle is set from a seperate rotating "pointer" sprite as such :

set cannon animation frame to round(Pointer.Angle /9)

I want to fire a bullet at the same 9 degree increment to match the cannon frame angle.

setting the bullet angle to

Pointer.Angle

works OK, but the angle obviously isnt rounded.

setting the bullet angle to

round(Pointer.Angle /9)

doesn't work..

Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong?

Thanks in advance..

Not sure what you mean by "rounded angle".

Here is a simple method - define two image points on each frame:

Then do this:

Cannon spawn Bullet at image point 2

Bullet set angle to angle(Cannon.ImagePointX(1), Cannon.ImagePointY(1), Cannon.ImagePointX(2), Cannon.ImagePointX(2))

Bullets will shoot in the direction from image point 1 to image point 2.

dop2000

Thanks for your response!

By rounded angle, I mean using the ROUND function to round the angle to the nearest 9 degree increment..

That's a nice simple method but I have 40 frames in isometric - I guess if I can't get any more suggestions I will go with that, but it's a lot of work compared to code..

Rounding rounds a number to the nearest integer, not to nearest 9 degrees

Try this formula:

bulletAngle = round(Pointer.Angle /9)*9

Thankyou so much, you just saved me a long evening of correctly placing 80+ image points!