Vehicle direction

[pnekdo]

Hey,

I have a 2D hill and a 2D vehicle on that hill. How can I make the vehicle look in the right direction relative to the hill. So if it is more at the base that it is lookig more upwards and at the top it is horizontal? What movement do I have to use? The goal is that the vehicle would move and change it's direction, similar to this example:

truck1

[CoxyofNewp]

Hi there mate! I'm new to MMF.
But I think what you are looking for is the
scale/Angle - set Angle. under the object you want to change.

then you need to work out how much angle you want the (truck/object) set to as it moves up the hill!

this will make the object/truck look like it's going the right direction!

Hope it some help!

[LB]

The tough part is figuring out the angle. If you're trying to make a car/truck/cart/ect movement, then it would be much easier, faster, and simpler to just use one of the two Physics extensions - Chipmunk, and Box2D. They handle all this stuff for you without lag that could be caused by fastloops. All you would have to do is make the body of the vehicle and then add the wheels.

[pnekdo]

Well I am trying to make a flash game and I think that the two mentioned extensions are not suported in flash. I will try to figure out something with angle changing although like LB said I know that it will be hard to figure out the angle. And I can't use the platform movemet becaus it has only 4 directions so I am probaly left with the vector movement witch is also quite hard. Thanks for the advices.

[LB]

For this you won't need any of the built-in movements. It will be easier in this case to make your own.

http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=181821

That should help you get a grip on what you're trying to do.

[pnekdo]

:grin: GREAT :grin: This is pecisely what I was looking for Thanks!!! :grin: