Set angle of motion by a pinned obj

Hey, how are you?

I'm struggling with a question here and I'd love if you guys could help me out.

I'm making a game like Drill up - "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ketchapp.drillup". And for that I'm using Bullet for the ship. When the ship lands, I pin it to the planet.

Problem 1 - the planets are rotating and when I activate the bullet again, I can't set the proper angle.

Problem 2 - Even setting both planets and ship to solids, ship is not looking like "landed", he looks more like "crashed" into the planet. I mean, they should not intersect, but I believe C2 collision points (not circle) is the problem for that.

help?

Scofano

Angle(Planet.x, Planet.y, Ship.x, ship.y)

Also you may wanna look on this thread maybe you can find different Ideas

https://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=146&t=199630&p=1158099#p1158099

Hey, thanks goku.

I've seen this other post before posting this one. Fact is I don't want to use plataform. If I just could use bullet it would be better for me.

I tried to set the angle of motion using your code but... didn't work.

My capx: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4blgnpv1uy6qdc8/liquid.capx?dl=0

[quote:32fhzq1h]Hey, thanks goku.

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2o8nsnb6fqwirh/SetAngle.png?dl=0

Add the same thing as you did with the bullet to set angle but this time for the (ship sprite angle) swell not the bulle angle of motion, on event 8 at the first action and it should work like in the picture

Yay! It worked. Thank you!

Now, I'm going to try and figure it out how to detect collision (circle) without the collision points, for the ship not to be "crashed" inside the planets. The journey begins.

You can make a fine circle collision polygon for the planet. Although it's not recommended to use more than 9 or so points, in reality you can make a circle with 20-30 points and it will still work fine. (unless you have hundreds of planets)

Or instead of the collision polygon you can use "System-> Pick Overlapping point" to detect when the ship touches the surface:

set angle = angle(planet.x, planet.y, ship.x, ship.y)

set pointX=planet.X+planetRadius*cos(angle)

set pointY=planet.Y+planetRadius*sin(angle)

System-> Pick Ship Overlapping point (pointX, pointY)