[solved]How do I find out where a sprite was clicked?

I'm working on a battleship game and I want to add explosions when a ship is hit, I've figured out how to do it by spawning an explosion sprite at my cursor but the asymmetry is killing me! What I would like to do is spawn the explosion at set centered points depending on which segment you clicked on. At first this didn't seem too difficult as I know how many segments each boat is and how many pixels so I can easily find out how large a segment is and where it begins and ends, my problem however is the mouse x and y pertain to the whole canvas not just my sprite so there is no way I can just compare mouse coordinates to my height.

my guess:

you could create invisible markers along the boat using containers and use pick nearest to spawn the explosion sprites exactly where you want

Check it against the boat's bounding box

when you touch the boat, you can get boat.bboxleft (as your starting X point) and bboxright or width for the right edge, same goes with top to bottom.

ex, for a 256 width boat with 4 equal 64px parts

just do on touch/click

ceil( (mouse/touch.X - boat.bboxleft ) / 64 )

to get a 1 to 4 result

Check it against the boat's bounding box

when you touch the boat, you can get boat.bboxleft (as your starting X point) and bboxright or width for the right edge, same goes with top to bottom.

ex, for a 256 width boat with 4 equal 64px parts

just do on touch/click

ceil( (mouse/touch.X - boat.bboxleft ) / 64 )

to get a 1 to 4 result

Brilliant! Thank you.