Aiming target

[MdNelson]

I am looking to make a simple aiming game.
On one side of screen a target, on the other an arrow.
I want to rotate arrow until it points in the direction of target.
I then want to shoot the arrow and see if it hits target and if it doesn't calculate how much it missed by.

Could someone give me some advice on what I should research to do this. Is it something to do with vectors?

[BartekB]

I am looking to make a simple aiming game.
On one side of screen a target, on the other an arrow.
I want to rotate arrow until it points in the direction of target.
I then want to shoot the arrow and see if it hits target and if it doesn't calculate how much it missed by.

Could someone give me some advice on what I should research to do this. Is it something to do with vectors?

Yup, if you want to have 360 aiming and a calculation. Maths is your friend here.

[Wackyjackie]

Check out Advanced Direction Object and its examples. They shall help you. There is a function for rotating in selected direction and other useful stuff, like calculating distances and angles between objects.

and see if it hits target and if it doesn't calculate how much it missed by.

If an arrow doesn't hit the target and passes behind it (check if position is greater than position of the target, of course, if the target is on the right side of the screen), then you can calculate distance between an arrow and the target. Like BartekB said, maths (and Advanced Direction Object) is your friend here .