Always Angle towards object from hot spot

[Bree]

Hello!

I'm trying to make this little red guy with the yellow tip always face and move towards one of my objects and I got it SORT of working... but if you click to the side of the object it kind of floats sideways towards it. I was hoping the yellow tip of the object would always face towards wherever my other mouse object was but it isn't quite working out that way . I'm imagining the red line as a boat basically and the yellow tip should always be forward and the red body behind it.

Anybody have any ideas how I can tweak this to get it to work?

Thanks for any help!!

[schrodinger]

Hi Beejers,

trigonometry sails high on the forum these days!

If you use angles, you should likely only use one animation direction,
as angle would already take care of directions
(or clone same shape/hot spot in other directions and change other details like color etc. if you like to)

otherwise other animation directions will mess up the final effect
(because hot spots positions will jump while changing direction, shifting the object noticeably)

In short, I guess you would like something like this:

angler_1.mfa

[Bree]

Yes it does! Makes me wish I would have taken some courses in it!

Thank you SO MUCH! That's exactly what I was trying to achieve. Funny I knew at one point I needed to divide by 11.25 but I kept trying to divide my ATan2 equation instead, didn't even think of Set direction to angle/11.25. So cool, thank you!!