Move an object along a line

[Mazerwulf]

I am assisting someone with their shooter and I am trying to work on a new movement concept for said game.


I want to have an invisible circle in the middle of the screen with the ship on the edge of the circle. When you push a direction, it moves the ship along the circular path without being able to deviate from it.

How would I go about this in the most efficient manner?


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[Chrille]

Well, if you don't want to use maths, you can use an extra active object to control the circular movement, and then just attach the ship object to that. Check this example:

exampleRotation.mfa

[Mazerwulf]

That seems to work very well! Question tho; how would I speed it up?

[Chrille]

In the expressions for the events that rotate the object, just increase the 1.