im making a bomb attack for my game that shoots projectiles in a random direction but i dont know how to do this. Can some one please help?

point in direction (pick random (-180) to (180))

That should do it

This?

Edit: Or above.

medians wrote:

This?

Edit: Or above.

or use this one; which ever one you prefer
Edit: they both do work

alright thx

if you only want it to look left or right you could also do this

when green flag clicked
forever
if <something happens> then
set [decider] to (pick random (1) to (2))
if <[decider] = [1]> then 
point in direction 90
else
point in direction -90
end
end
end

PurpleSuit wrote:

if you only want it to look left or right you could also do this

Can't you just use rotation style?? And this seems to be solved.

RealKreeky wrote:

point in direction (pick random (-180) to (180))

That should do it

medians wrote:

This?

Edit: Or above.

Minor issue with both of these, there is a direction that is slightly more likely to be chosen. RealKreeky's one could pick -180 or 180 which are both the same direction, medians' could pick 0 or 360 which is both the same.

So the fix for this is to make sure there are only 360 different directions that can be chosen, not 361.
e.g.

point in direction (pick random (0) to (359))

or

point in direction (pick random (-179) to (180))

Though if you want to pick random floating point numbers this will not be a problem, the way those numbers are chosen make this work:

point in direction (pick random (0.0) to (360.0))

medians wrote:

PurpleSuit wrote:

if you only want it to look left or right you could also do this

Can't you just use rotation style?? And this seems to be solved.

maybe you want it to point in another direction not that afterwards.