get position x pixels away from object at angle y

so essentially, I want to get the x and y position of somewhere that is 2048 pixels away from my player character, but is also at the angle between the player and the mouse cursor. is this possible?

x=yourloc.x+dist*cos(theta) y=yourloc.y+dist*sin(theta)

dist=2048

theta=angle(yourloc.x,yourloc.y,mouse.x,mouse.y)

x=yourloc.x+dist*cos(theta) y=yourloc.y+dist*sin(theta)

dist=2048

theta=angle(yourloc.x,yourloc.y,mouse.x,mouse.y)

Apologies but that didn't seem to work

this is what i currently have. which doesnt seem to work

How do you know it doesn't work? The expressions look correct to me.

Instead of raycasting, try spawning a test sprite at those coordinates and check if it appears in the expected location.

huh you're right, no clue why the raycast wont work then :/

Hitdistance would return 0 when the ray doesn't hit anything. Check that there are in fact obstacles and that you've configured them correctly in LOS behavior.

Or maybe the ray hits the player object itself, or some other object attached to the player.

It's difficult to speculate without the project file.

apologies for the delayed response but ive done a bit of tweaking, and ive got it to "half work" of a sort. it is shooting the ray out past 0 pixels now, but it seems to sometimes randomly not go far enough, like, it will shoot out but it will fall short of the solid object, the distance it falls short of seems random, at some points it works perfectly and goes to the wall, at other times it practially goes nowhere, like 5 pixels out from the player when the wall is sat 500 pixels out. completely random. ill send the project file here:

https://download1322.mediafire.com/67biei4kdr5gWOXfPnmzV3TJAQgSnjQiPaO54nrN4jT6H4F8ANUZE4gg0NLoDG2lWVlK42VW1Ogce2iKCcFmvpABWGKrVEIyInuLIjF1h1hBr6E3UCcDqZBVDHP30OwM-Edbrxr43FbGgXobfeQXzhAQ9KF561p5hEQ1c6QmZ3g9_jc/lwcth4qd9w2qzj2/2d+Platformer+Shooter+Game.c3p

When ingame, you can use left click to shoot the laser, but you will find the length of the laser is seemingly random.

You have a mistake in "Cast ray" action.

In "to Y" field you have Player.X+2048*sin(angle(Player.X,Player.Y,mouse.X,mouse.Y))

It needs to be Player.Y

You have a mistake in "Cast ray" action.

In "to Y" field you have Player.X+2048*sin(angle(Player.X,Player.Y,mouse.X,mouse.Y))

It needs to be Player.Y

that would be my problem, sorry for being so dumb

No worries, I've made this same mistake countless times! :)