Problem with 360 degree aiming.

[Watermelon786]

Hey, it's been a while since I was on these forums. Anyways, I was working on a remake of my game Survival Space (On Gamebuilder.info) and I'm having some trouble with aiming. Aiming while still is fine, but when I move and shoot, the bullets don't go where I want them to. This game is still very much incomplete so please ignore the incomplete stuff.

[netninja]

I'm pretty sure it's only because you ship is moving that the bullets look odd, and they're actually moving as they're supposed to. I think it's a problem with relative velocities.

So to make it look how you want it to, I think you need to add the ship's velocity to the velocity of the bullets. When you shoot a bullet, set the bullet's X speed to the Ship's current X speed + the speed of the bullet. Do the same for the Y speed.

Real life example: If you are in a car going east at 60km/h and you throw a ball at 20km/h east then the ball will go at 80km/h east.

The effect isn't noticeable in many games where bullets move much faster than the characters, however the ship moves so fast in your game that you can see a noticeable difference and in fact are able to move faster than the bullets in some situations.

[Watermelon786]

Oh thanks that works!