Minor Mathematical Convention Angle Bug

Problem Description

Under all normal circumstances positive angles (less than pi and greater than 0) are measured in the +y direction on a Cartesian coordinate system. However, in Construct it maps negative angles to the +y axis on the Cartesian coordinate system.

Attach a Capx

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-xiqK ... sp=sharing

Description of Capx

Angle bug display.

Steps to Reproduce Bug

• See capx.

Observed Result

The angle is mapped incorrectly to the Cartesian axis.

Expected Result

I expect that positive angles should map to the +y axis and negative angles should map to the -y axis.

Affected Browsers

• Probably all.

Operating System and Service Pack

Win7 Prof.

Construct 2 Version ID

r206

Please let me know if you actually fix this bug, as I have a manual transform in my code to account for this.

Not a bug, and actually your expected result is working correctly since +y is down, not up. Even that isn't a bug as that's a perfectly acceptable and is a very common convention used with computers.

As per most game engines/computer graphics APIs, Construct 2 increases the Y axis downwards with the origin in the top-left of the screen. So actually it's "correct" in that positive angles increase towards the positive Y direction, which is actually downwards.

We could never change this, anyway: altering something so fundamental to game logic would break just about every game ever built with C2, and make for a lot of angry customers!

Oh, that is odd. Okay, I will make note of that for my future work. I don't like it, but that will have to do.

I am coming from an engineering background, so I am used to working with standards.

We could never change this, anyway: altering something so fundamental to game logic would break just about every game ever built with C2, and make for a lot of angry customers!

I can't argue with that. :-p

Our standards are much lower than yours, literally.