Get 8-direction to work with rotating layout?

Hey all, got an interesting question.

At the moment, 8-directional controls always are oriented in the same direction, regardless of rotation of layout. Needless to say, this makes it impossible to use in any games involving rotation of layer/layout.

So, there are two solutions as far as I can see...

-1. Someone comes up with a working replication of the behavior, and then we could apply trig. However, I cannot seem to come up with a good imitation of it.

-2. Ashley adds an 'Angle Offset' property, which adjusts the control direction of the behavior accordingly.

Any help or advice would be nice!

Did you try custom movement? You can pretty much move anyway you want with custom movement.

Yeah, but some of the things within 8-directional behavior I can't really seem to figure out, especially the collision with solids.

I did a quick thing in another example - it was custom movement, I just set the movingangle of the objects custom movement to the angle between the colliding object and the ball object.

The only issue would be if you had a long platform, as it'd go from the wherever the origin was - in which case it'd get a lot more complicated to code. :-/

Download here

http://www.johnnysix.net/games/windex/windex.capx

It is the event where the ball collides with the box.