Feature request: Custom angling and imagepoints

If by "mother sprite" you mean you're spawning bullets from another sprite, then don't use spawn use create (I've heard that spawn uses the angle of the parent).

I think that's what you're talking about, otherwise you can do "set angle" in bullet behaviour to "no" if you don't want the display and movement angle to be the same.

wtf, anyone else seeing my posts before his?

When I implement bullet mechanics I find it very frustrating that the bullet angle is determined by the angle of the "mother" sprite.

I miss an imagepoint option to determine in which angle other sprites are spawned.

So for example, if I fire a bullet from imagepoint 1 i want the potential bullets to fly off in a 15 degree angle, independent of the mother sprite.

That's really odd, — I do see your posts after his!

In regards to original poster: why not use 'set angle' after the spawn action?

Yeah, alspal seems to to the original poster... Weird.

Well, I have experimented with the set angle property and spawning the bullet on a custom coordinate. The problem is that as soon as I set the bullet angle, it affects all other bullets currently on screen making previously fired bullets reverse their direction.

<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1024727/c2/bulletmother.PNG" border="0" />

Any actions after a created object will only affect that newly created one, so make sure you put the "set angle" after the creation and not before.

That did the trick! Much appreciated!

Heh, I think our server changed its clocks at 2am for the end of British Summertime (BST)... causing a weird posting order bug!

Anyway, I don't see a need for additional features here, it seems covered by the 'set angle' action.