How do I prevent 8direction.movingangle from resetting at a standstill?

Hey there.

8 direction angle of motion resets to zero at a stand still. I don’t want this. I want this angle to be preserved so that I can apply a burst of speed to the sprite at a standstill and the sprite will move in the angle which it was last moving in, and is also still facing.

Is there a work around for this?

Best would probably be a formula using the sprite’s angle to apply relevant vector x and y, right?

Save the last movement angle in an instance variable. Something like:

Sprite 8Direction is moving : Sprite set movAngle variable to self.8direction.AngleOfMotion

Well, yeah.

But, I want to make the sprite move in the direction that it is facing. What’s a formula that can translate angle into vector x and vector y to launch the sprite in the angle it’s facing?

VectorX = speed*cos(sprite.angle)

VectorY = speed*sin(sprite.angle)

Thank you, this was what I was looking for. I’ll try it when I get home, and maybe take a crash course on trig so I can actually understand it.

Thanks!