Spawning bullet at certain coordinate

I know how the image points work but I need to have a dynamic spawn point for the bullet.

How can I spawn a bullet from the center (origin) of the sprite, 100px towards the mouse pointer?

create bullet (player.x, player.y)

set bullet angle of motion to player.movingangle (assuming its a 8 direction movement on it)

set bullet invisible

if bullet.distance travelled > 100 -> make bullet visible

Hmm, Create bullet?

This is what I currently have:

Mouse -> Left button is down -> Player -> Spawn Bullet on layer 2 (image point 0)

System -> Every 0.1 seconds -> Bullet -> Set angle toward (Mouse.x, Mouse.y)

What I want is to get the bullet spawn 100 px away from the center of Player towards mouse pointer instead of image point 0.

sorry my bad, im tired.

use the "Bullet" -> Move Forward (distance 100) action after setting its angle to point at the mouse

voila!

Its in the "size and position" section of the action window

If your bullet comes from a gun sprite or something like that, you can also use an image point instead of using this method.

The math way:

Create bullet at: Sprite.X + cos(angle(Sprite.X, Sprite.Y, Mouse.X, Mouse.Y)) * 100, Sprite.Y + sin(angle(Sprite.X, Sprite.Y, Mouse.X, Mouse.Y)) * 100

You can also store the calculated angle in a local variable so you only have to calculate it once, then substitute that variable into the equations.

How can I spawn something on a coordinate instead of image point?

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Ah, thanks. The basic tutorial told me tu use Player -> Spawn which only works with image points. Doh!