Stop bullet when it reaches touched location

Hello,

Currently the player can fly around the screen with touch. You tap anywhere on the screen, and the Player (bullet) moves to the location (on tap: set bullet speed to 100). On the tap gesture I store Touch.X and Touch.Y in global variables called 'TouchX' and 'TouchY'.

Then, every tick the Player rotates toward 'TouchX' and 'TouchY'.

Now, this works, but when the Player is at the location it starts spinning around its self. What I prefer it to do is, 50 pixels before the touched location the Player to gradually slow down to 0 bullet speed, and just stand still on the screen.

I looked at some samples where you store the Player initial location into variables, and compare it with distance. But I was unable to translate it into my example.

Any ideas?

Regards

Hi,

Thanks. I just noticed in Construct 3, the divide symbol is indeed different, but looks like a '+'.

I tested your link, and it works. Just that the sprite doesn't stop exactly at the touched location. In my file for example, the player sprite stops about 40 pixels before the exact touched place (measured from the image point of the sprite to touch x and y).

Thanks.

Is the deceleration you trying to do when the distance is less Than 50 is because you trying to stop the object? or because you trying to that effect?

I wouldn't use the bullet either for this situation as Dop2000 said the bullet is more as a constant movement you need some behaviour that has more supports for deceleration

Have you tried the (move at Angle)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/13hebrbvquv6oo5/StopBulletOnDestination.capx?dl=0

if you really need the deceleration when the distance is 50 or less just add another condition (Dist <= 50) and do the deceleration on there

And here you don't really need the rotation like the bullet you can just set the Angle, you can remove the rotation if you like

Hi,

Thanks. I just noticed in Construct 3, the divide symbol is indeed different, but looks like a '+'.

I tested your link, and it works. Just that the sprite doesn't stop exactly at the touched location. In my file for example, the player sprite stops about 40 pixels before the exact touched place (measured from the image point of the sprite to touch x and y).

Thanks.

I made example that the distance is < than your sprite width/2.

Of course you can change my condition to make it fits with your requirements.

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maybe this has been solved already, but since you wanted to keep it vanilla here is my approach, should apply to your bullet behavior also ... they are working on same principles.

is going to be a pain in the "bowl" to make that bullet bounce of objects though.

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