Gravity-Bound Projectiles that Trace Position

In some games, such as Mega Man (again), there are some enemies that have the ability to fire shots that somehow manage to both get your X position and yet at the same time throw shots in an arc.

https://youtu.be/aZMXvt1kppc?t=1m36s

Is there any way to possibly emulate this in Construct 2 (either using behaviors or purely through events)?

maybe every tick create a track sprite at object.x and object.y?

What gumshoe said pretty much...

Every tick; (or every X seconds for a slower angle correction)

• Set angle of projectile.sprite towards player.X,player.Y

On "enemy shoot"

• create projectile.sprite at enemy.X,enemy.Y
• set angle of projectile.sprite to (something not already aimed towards the player - maybe straight up?)

Note, the faster your projectile and the slower it angles itself will all affect the arcing motion.

~Sol

there have been other topics for that. The equations for the motion of a falling projectile is this:

y1=y0+vy*t+0.5*gravity*t^2

x1=X0+vx*t

X0,y0 is the start position

X1,y1 is the end position

Vx,Vy is the velocity

t is time

If you pick a time and then solve those equations for vx and vy that would do it.

I think it's referred to elsewhere as predictive aiming. You could also Google kinematics for more tutorials about the equations used.