Smooth rotation of objects?

[AndyBazooka]

I want to be able to rotate objects smoothly without the choppiness that comes with the 32 directions an object can look in.

Example: I want the light from my flashlight to smoothly rotate towards where the mouse-cursor is on-screen.

I have currently attached the flashlight object to my character and it is always looking in the direction of the mouse-cursor. But it uses the 32-directions when rotating, so the turns become very choppy. Any way of solving this by using "angle" or something like that?

[happygreenfrog]

Setting the object's angle is definitely the way to go. The Advanced Direction Object would be the easiest way of making it look towards your mouse pointer, by using the "direction of two points" expression (it was called something like that, anyway).

[nivram]

There are some open source 360 rotation examples on my website.

Marv

[AndyBazooka]

thanks guys.
i'll have a look on your site nivram.

will return here if i have any more questions about the angles or the advanced direction object (never used it before)

[AndyBazooka]

Okay, so I looked at the Advanced Direction Object example file that comes with the extension.
I made this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjzwes0igy...ght%20test.mfa but can't really see any difference from before.
When it comes to coding stuff like this im often really lost so I think that i've approached this in the wrong way.

You mentioned something about "direction between two points" happy, but unfortunally I was unable to find any good example files that helped me with that.




EDIT: okay, there, got the proper link up