8 Direction movement problem

[Lukiester]

I was wondering how to do the 8 direction movement but without it changing the characters direction and just moving it? This is because i want the mouse changing the direction of the character so i can face one way but move the other.
Thanks for the help, Lucas

[schrodinger]

I can think of 2 quick ways:

1) create an active object for mouse pointer
always
>>> (pointer object) set X coordinate to xmouse
>>> (pointer object) set Y coordinate to ymouse
>>> (player) direction - look in the direction of (pointer object)
(would change direction while moving though )

2) in a single action:
always
>>> (player) direction - choose direction - expression: OAngle( "player", XMouse, YMouse ) / 11.25
(but you'll have to set deceleration to 0 or object movement direction would change while decelerating)

other more polished options could include custom movement and angles

EDIT:
3) a quick and clean angles solution:
always
>>> (player) set angle to: OAngle( "player", XMouse, YMouse )
(but you must draw only right animation direction of player,
works well for 100% top-down games)

[Lukiester]

i am doing it with an xbox controller. This works but only when the object is still and not when its moving