Drop bullet speed depending on distance

Hey-ho,

I'm having some headaches: I want a bullet to slow down proportionately depending on its distance from another object, so that by the time it gets to the object it stops.

The speed should only start to decrease when the distance between the bullet and target object is less than half of what it was originally.

Any ideas? I haven't been able to get any stable results.

Something I did for someone else a while back that is almost what you want. Not quite, but the distance formula is in there. Pick it apart and see if it helps any..

light distance

procrastinator - Thanks for that, but I just can't seem to get it to translate to what I'm after. I may just have to live with what I've got, I have spent hours on it and it's really not so important at all.

Couldn't you compare positions, averaging the result as a variable then set the speed to this value ?

Couldn't you compare positions, averaging the result as a variable then set the speed to this value ?

Exactly, something like: Bullet.Speed = floor(distance(bullet.x, bullet.y, target.x, target.y)-stopDistance could work. Also add an event that rounds it to 0 if it goes negative. :)