Hi everyone, in this project I have the main sprite pointing toward the mouse pointer. I need to get rid of the mouse because I want to use a joystick and buttons setup.

Is there a way to have the sprite pointing toward the direction in which it's moving?

Here is the link to the project

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/836568524

THANKS EVERYONE

I modified your code.

https://turbowarp.org/editor?project_url=https://unlisted.gantzos.com/cached/643d69c8a11bb0116bfdf034

You can explain to me in more detail if you want the ship to move in a different way or not.

MegaGiacomo wrote:

Hi everyone, in this project I have the main sprite pointing toward the mouse pointer. I need to get rid of the mouse because I want to use a joystick and buttons setup.

Is there a way to have the sprite pointing toward the direction in which it's moving?

Here is the link to the project

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/836568524

THANKS EVERYONE

If you want to make a sprite point toward its next movement position, you can create a new sprite that stays hidden, and is always in front of the player. Then you can just put a point to new sprite.

Is this what you mean?

since you have a WASD movement system, I'd just do:

if <key [w v] pressed?> then // for up movement
point in direction (0 v)
end

and just do it for all the main cardinal directions.
for the diagonal directions, you could do:

if <<key [w v] pressed?> and <key [d v] pressed?>> then // for northeast movement
point in direction (45 v)
end

Here’s another idea from the workaround guide. https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/611582/?page=1#post-6382802

define point towards x: (target x) y: (target y)
point in direction ([atan v] of (((target x) - (x position)) / ((target y) - (y position)))
if <(target y) < (y position)> then
  turn cw (180) degrees
end

Point towards x: ((speed x) + (shake dx)) y:(((speed y) + (shake dy))
change x by ((speed x) + (shake dx))
change y by ((speed y) + (shake dy))

To use this in your project you’d need to combine the move x and move y custom blocks into one block and make the call to Point towards before actually changing the X and Y positions.

So now you have several suggested solutions to pick from.

Catchat2 wrote:

I modified your code.

https://turbowarp.org/editor?project_url=https://unlisted.gantzos.com/cached/643d69c8a11bb0116bfdf034

You can explain to me in more detail if you want the ship to move in a different way or not.

Thanks, I've used your code but I've switched to the arrows for directions and kept wasd for movement only.

Do you know if there's a way to have the sprite rotate smothly?

Thanks, I've used your code but I've switched to the arrows for directions and kept wasd for movement only.

Do you know if there's a way to have the sprite rotate smothly?


Here is another modification.
https://turbowarp.org/editor?project_url=https://unlisted.gantzos.com/cached/643dc4dd58428c0099083eee
Again, tell me if you wanted the movement in another way.

Thanks.

If I'm understanding correctly this should work

forever
turn cw ((5) * (<key [right arrow v] pressed?> - <key [left arrow v] pressed?>)) degrees
end

Catchat2 wrote:

Thanks, I've used your code but I've switched to the arrows for directions and kept wasd for movement only.

Do you know if there's a way to have the sprite rotate smothly?


Here is another modification.
https://turbowarp.org/editor?project_url=https://unlisted.gantzos.com/cached/643dc4dd58428c0099083eee
Again, tell me if you wanted the movement in another way.

Thanks.
Works great! Tahnkyou!

MegaGiacomo wrote:

Catchat2 wrote:

Thanks, I've used your code but I've switched to the arrows for directions and kept wasd for movement only.

Do you know if there's a way to have the sprite rotate smothly?

Here is another modification.
https://turbowarp.org/editor?project_url=https://unlisted.gantzos.com/cached/643dc4dd58428c0099083eee
Again, tell me if you wanted the movement in another way.

Thanks.
Works great! Tahnkyou!
Smooth turning: In @griffpatch's maze pathfinding, he explains one technic to make a sprite smooth-turn
https://youtu.be/0faPPgOT–E?t=833