How do I detect the direction of an instance?

Hi,

I'm experimenting with a vertical space shooter and I have enemy ships moving downwards with bullet and sine wave behaviours. I want to detect whether an enemy ship instance is moving left or right so that I can change the sprite accordingly. How do I do this without using the enemy ship's angle (by design they always face down)?

Thanks

Godge are the enemy ships actually moving or are they stationary in one place. a screenshot would help

You make some variables, oldx, newx, oldy, newy, and set newx,y to current x,y every tick.

Then if newx is greater than oldx you know its going right, less left, newy >oldy, down, etc.

If newx, or newy is different to oldx, or oldy, you set oldx to newx, and oldy to newy.

Or, use a dummy for the graphic so that you can use the angle.

newt Thanks newt, works a treat