How to get a sprite to face towards mouse pointer ?

[pa2aa]

Hi, can anyone give some advice please on how to get a sprite (top down character shooting type game) to face towards the mouse pointer ? Ive created the gun sights/crosshairs, and have made these follow the mouse pointer using Always, Position, Xmouse etc. Character is set as 8 direction movement, how can I get it to face the direction of where the crosshairs are ?

[Olivier]

You need to set the direction of your Player object to look at your Crosshair object. In the Event Editor under your Player Active object > Direction > Look in the direction of and then select your Crosshair object.

• Always
   - (Player) Look at (0,0) from (Crosshair)

[mobichan]

It also depends on whether you made all the art for the player facing directions or want to rotate the sprite manually. Olivier's idea works only if you set different rotated images to the different directions of your sprite's animation. If you intend to just rotate the player, make an image that is facing right, put it in the "0" direction of the animation (that is the default direction). Now you would need to make some code like so:

+Always
-- Set Angle of Active to (ATan2(Y( "Active" ) - YMouse, XMouse - X( "Active" ) )) <---- (this is what you would put in the expression editor when it asks what angle to set)

This is a great resource as well: http://www.create-games.com/article.asp?id=1898

Good Luck,

Reg