[SOLVED] Power of propelling ball based on mouse pull back

G'day Guys,

I'm sure the title is cryptic. I don't know terminology and I belive my inexperience in Construct is my flaw here. I can't for the life of me work out a concept on how to do the following:

Basic ball game. Think similar to pool, marbles, even a sling-shot style game such as Angry Birds.

Help needed with concept / thoughts: Click on the ball, pull backwards. The further you pull back the harder the push / force. (atm it's just clicking on the ball and releasing that works for a pre-coded force)

I am using a screen full of balls and physics. (picture like a pool table).

Click and release is working just fine. It took me a while to work out how to make a directional arrow point where I wanted it to.

Capx attached (very small so far, very little code. Purple ball is the only ball working.

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Thanks in advance :*

You should calculate the Force using the distance and min functions:

min(distance(Sprite.X, Sprite.Y, Mouse.X, Mouse.Y), 200)

The above sets the force applied to the sprite by getting the distance between it and the mouse but will not apply a force higher 200. Remember, min always chooses the lowest value of the options passed into it. Play around with the second value until you feel you have a good max value. Also, if the distance doesn't quite feel like it is giving enough force, do a multiple of the distance. For example, you could multiply the distance by 1.5.

I hope that gets you what you need and good luck with your project.

Thanks FragFather. That seems to be exactly what I needed and shouldn't be too hard to convert into some form of visual for the interface

I really appreciate it and yes yet again my limitation is my inexperience THANKS !!!