How to get my spaceship pulled back when firing a big laser

I have a top down shooter Spaceship. It can rotate 360degree. It can fire a big laser. I want to make my ship to get pulled back, when shooting the big laser. Giving a feel of a very powerful weapon.

How to achieve this?

ekajuan

Depends on other parameters.

For example if you are using Custom Movement you could do:

Spaceship - Custom movement set speed = Spaceship.CustomMovement.Speed - recoil

For bullet behavior:

Spaceship - Bullet set speed = Spaceship.Bullet.Speed - recoil

problem with bullet could be, if you have "set angle" to yes, that is you start going backwards spaceship will rotate by 180. It could be solved by additional bullet behavior.

You could also do it manually, with variables, but it would be a long story with more variables like speedX, speedY and cosinus/sinus calculation, but it could be done.

But it would be pointless if you have construct behaviors to do that instead.

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Try this

I know its a game so you can do what you like but personally i wouldnt use recoil in this way. First a Laser is just light, and firing one wouldnt cause recoil anyway. If you still want some form of recoil i would suggest you have a separate turret and apply the recoil to that instead.

korbaach where did you get that laser sprite animation? I need a few animations similar to that...

jobel ........... http://powstudios.com/content/electrici ... ion-pack-1

http://powstudios.com/content/fire-animation-pack-1

http://powstudios.com/content/smoke-animation-pack-1

http://powstudios.com/content/flash-animation-pack-1

http://powstudios.com/content/weapon-at ... ion-pack-1

http://powstudios.com/content/blood-animation-pack-1

... this resource is being provided under an "Attribution" license. This means you are free to use it for any purpose as long as "Pow Studios" is given credit.

korbaach ahh thanks, I'm already using them (as temp animations) I just didn't recognize the laser one you had in the capx. thanks..

I was looking for an artist how can animate like that.

thanks, I can use them too.

renny

Thank yu all for the advices.

Most welcome ekajuan