Square orbit around moving object

I would like to create these "orbits" around a center sprite.

The Center will move just like how you can touch move the center in the circle example, I've seen the circle and square movement patterns on Scirra Forums. These.capx are not my creations! The .png is though!

Here's a nifty picture of what I hope to do! I really appreciate the help!

You could use this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/577 ... oveto.html

Then you just need to ensure your 3 x,y co-ords ( for triangle) or 4 x,y co-ords for rectangle are always set in relation to the center point.

spongehammer

I don't understand how to do what you've said. I don't have a 7zip program. What type of file is that?

I am still stuck after trying some path finding stuff. Can anyone tell me how to do this specific circular movement, but as square movement.

If you test it you will see why pathfinding doesn't work. This example is exactly what I want except for a square. I don't actually get why it works. I was surprised to see the sin and cosine.

Here's a quick example.

http://johnnysix.net/games/sqpi/

CAPX

http://johnnysix.net/games/sqpi/sq.capx

Do you mean like this

Lordshiva1948

No I mean just like in this example. Except I want a square. The problem with path finding is that if I move the path the pathfinder looks for the old path not something new and constantly changing.

JohnnySix

Your site won't load on my comp because it says adult content. Could you just load the capx download?

there is nothing there that it should say adult content

JohnnySix Lordshiva1948 - I have looked at your examples and at others on the forum. All the examples I found are for one orbiting body. How do you allow for many orbiting bodies? If I add more red balls in JohnnySix's example, all the balls orbit in the same position. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: nevermind, figured it out from this thread: https://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=147&t=76729&p=634604&hilit=planets+orbit+sun#p634604

I needed to Rotate towards Angle:

For Each (Sprite)

Rotate Towards Angle

---> Degrees: distance(self.X,self.y,Center.X,Center.Y)

---> Angle: angle(self.X,self.y,Center.X,Center.Y)+85

Then Move the sprites:

For Each (sprite)

Move Forward 1 pixel

Lordshiva1948 JohnnySix —

I was able to get the download JohnnySix gave. it is perfect! Thank you all so much!!

Case SOLVED

I know this is a fairly old thread. I have a question for JohnnySix:

What if I wanted to rotate the square path? How would I apply the rotation of the path to the formula you're using to move along each edge?