Character controlled by WASD pointing towards mous

So I'm trying to make a 2d game where you control the character with WASD but he points towards where the mouse is. How do I do that?

I've checked out the "Diablolike-movement" guide and thats almost what I want. Just that I want the sprite to look towards the mouse and move with WASD, not by clicks.

Well, moving the character and facing it toward mouse are 2 different things so i think you have no problem with that.

Once you have the wasd moving, make the following action:

System, on Every tick, Sprite(character) Set angle toward (Mouse.X, Mouse.Y)

NB. You should have added mouse plugin to use that Mouse.X/Y expression

Hope that helps ya

But doesn't that make the result that's in the "Ghost shooter" example? Because that's not what I want. Here's a little pic example:

<img src="http://abitsal.net/1.png" border="0" /><img src="http://abitsal.net/2.png" border="0" /><img src="http://abitsal.net/3.png" border="0" />

You would set different animations for each way he is looking. then sya that when the mouse is between X degrees he is using the certain animation set to looking at that direction.

hope that helped!

I'm a bit noobish on this so I understood like 1% of that :P

Can my make an quick .capx file with comments explaining a bit further? That would be very helpful!

Ill try to explain this

You have conditions and you have actions

It works like: If (condition), then (action)

In your case i would do the following

Attach an empty sprite to the position of the character

Set action that Sets angle toward Mouse.X/Mouse.Y

Now you have the emty sprite rotating toward the mouse

If the 8 directions of the character are 8 different animations, then set the following event:

IF: System, Every tick /THEN: "Character sprite" Set Animation

and in Animation tipe "round(EmtySprite.Angle/45)"

that makes the angle from 0 to 44 = 0, 45 to 89 = 1, 90 to 134 = 2 and so on.

So now when the angle is within 0 - 44 you get 0, which is animation 0

Hope you understand it

BTW i dont know if thats the best way but i'm just trying to help.

Cheers

Didn't work :(

dl.dropbox.com/s/b3qupmzj2twr8zq/test.capx

What did I do wrong? Can you edit and add comment on where if you find the error??

Yup my bad

It works with frames but don't seems to work with animations

Anyways here is the solution... its kinda clumsy but still works

dl.dropbox.com/u/19082408/123.capx

I have started it you should finish the rest

Thank you so much!

Now I finally understand :D

Now my next question (don't know if it's possible at the moment):

I tried to make him fire bullets when holding down left mouse button. Bullets are spawning correctly (1 per 0.35 sec).

But when I tried to make them go at different directions for when he's facing another way, they just change everytime my mouse moves and character switches animation.

I added "angle of motion" on every direction event, this is how the event sheet looks like:

<img src="http://abitsal.net/event.png" border="0" />

Download a .capx here if you're OP:

dropbox.com/sh/c08d30hn4j6azci/i0AgKCgZYy

You can try to make a condition "On object created" for the bullets

That way the bullets direction will be set once when the bullet is created

Hope that is what u ment

Cheers

Yes it is!

Thank very much!

Here's a more compact way of doing the animations (what Pakost was getting at before):

8dirAnimAndShoot.capx (r119)

Nice

I always knew i lack some math knowledge :)

Thanks is very useful. <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle" />