How to create object at mouse position?

[qenio]

How to create object at mouse position?

[happygreenfrog]

It's simple:

First, you create the object outside of the frame, then set its x position to "Xmouse" and its y position to "Ymouse".

[qenio]

OK then more tricky question:
How to make object look at mouse position?

I don't want use any mediate object.

[GoofyGamer]

To make an object look at the mouse position without any mediate object you would have to use some trigonometry.

The following Condition / Action:

Set direction to: (ATan2(Y( "Active" )-YMouse, X( "Active" )-XMouse)*-1+180)/11.25
(You select direction by using the expression editor, there is a 1+1 button on the bottom right of the of the popup window that you need to click)

Will find the angle of the line segment between your active and the mouse point. It gives us a value from 0 to 180 both positive and negative. So we multiply that by negative 1 to get rid of the negative side and add 180 to have a value from 0 to 360 ( a circle) Then, since active objects only have 32 directions we divide 360 by 32 to get (11.25). We divide the solution of (Atan2*-1+180) by 11.25 to get numbers in relation from 0 to 32.

Edit: added an example file to the post.

[qenio]

Thanks. Could I use vector movement to more precise angles?

[N64Mario]

To make an object look at the mouse position without any mediate object you would have to use some trigonometry.

The following Condition / Action:

Set direction to: (ATan2(Y( "Active" )-YMouse, X( "Active" )-XMouse)*-1+180)/11.25
(You select direction by using the expression editor, there is a 1+1 button on the bottom right of the of the popup window that you need to click)

Will find the angle of the line segment between your active and the mouse point. It gives us a value from 0 to 180 both positive and negative. So we multiply that by negative 1 to get rid of the negative side and add 180 to have a value from 0 to 360 ( a circle) Then, since active objects only have 32 directions we divide 360 by 32 to get (11.25). We divide the solution of (Atan2*-1+180) by 11.25 to get numbers in relation from 0 to 32.

Edit: added an example file to the post.

Thanks. Could I use vector movement to more precise angles?

Actually, I believe that you could use scale -> angle draw (or something like that) to get the effect of the object looking at the mouse too, without the animation being limited to MMF2's 8-32 something directions.

[GoofyGamer]

Yes you can use vector movement. Though to get more precise angles I would say to rotate the actual object you are using. You would set the angle instead of setting the direction.

Set Angle : ATan2(Y( "Active" )-YMouse, X( "Active" )-XMouse)*-1+180

360 degree rotation that will point the object to wherever the mouse is.

[qenio]

Thank you for you help.