How do I smoothly rotate a sprite towards the mouse position?

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- Grimmy
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I can use rotateToward to rotate the sprite to the position but I want it to ease in and ease out as I move the mouse. What's the recommended way?

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- Grimmy
- - Joined 20 Nov, 2012
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The answer is to Tween the property Angle. (Add a tween behaviour) and use...

angle(Self.X,Self.Y,Mouse.X,Mouse.Y)

..as the tween end value
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- damousey
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You could achieve this with linear interpolation that references its output as a sort of inline tween too.

Try setting the value to lerp([current value],[destination value],[factor out of 1]) to create a neat curve of values over ticks.