targeting Sprite

Hello All!

I have a little top down tank with a rotating turret who's angle slowly follows the mouse. Works great! Now I want to implement a target icon that stays directly in front of the turret, but the y axis moves to the mouse position. I want to know when the turret is lined up with the mouse using this sprite.

I have tried a few things, but it doesn't quite work.

I tried:

Every Tick> Sprite Set position Turret ImagepointY(0), Mouse.x

and variants of this. I think I am way off base.

I (think) I need the event to do something like:

Set position of Sprite along Turret Angle at distance(Turret.x, Turret.y, mouse.x, mouse.y

My head hurts...   HELP!

Ahh, trig time!

Darn it... 6am... Don't feel like trig!

Here's a simple solution.

Every tick:

Target: set position to turret.x,turret.y

Target: move at angle angle(turret.x,turret.y,mouse.x,mouse.y), distance distance(turret.x,turret.y,mouse.x,mouse.y).

This should do what you want.

Thanks Both of you! I took only 1 semester of Trig... Now I wished I had finished!!!!!!

Well... I took none.

I dont need to go back to school. Yann is schooling me just fine!   <img src="smileys/smiley42.gif" border="0" align="middle" />