Lerp at Angle

I'm trying to figure out a way to lerp an object in the opposite direction of the player a couple hundred pixels, but can't seem to figure out if it's possible.

Currently I've created instance variables on the lerping sprite as SpriteX & SpriteY, and also an AngleToPlayer isntance variable as angle(Player.X, Player.Y, Sprite.X, Sprite.Y), but I can't figure out how to set the spritex & y instance variables -/+ 200 pixels based on the characters position.

In lamen's terms, I'm trying to make it so when you kill an enemy, a coin spawns on them and slowly moves away from your current position stopping in 100-200 pixels.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

would "set angle to player+180 degrees not work?....

With maybe a fade behaviour added,destroy after fade

Or an animation that once ended destroy?

Or bullet when distance travelled...

It would, but I want to do it with the lerp effect so as it moves away, it progressively gets slower.

Add targetx and targety variables which you set at coin creation to point to desired target coordinate. Then each tick set position lerp(coin.x, coin.targetx, dt) . Same for y coordinate.

Hey Vee,

That's how I'm trying to do it currently, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to calculate Coin.TargetX & Coin.TargetY.

Fortunately, I figured out a different way to do it using the Bullet behavior.

I set an event "If Bullet speed > 0, change speed to Sprite.Bullet.Speed-5 every tick" to create a fake "lerp" effect.

I am still curious if there is a proper math equation to calculate Coin.TargetX & Coin.TargetY based on the angle between the object and you if anyone knows of one.

I am still curious if there is a proper math equation to calculate Coin.TargetX & Coin.TargetY based on the angle between the object and you if anyone knows of one.

Sure, just google up Pythagoras. It forms a triangle which you can use to calculate the X, Y if you know the angle and distance.