Working on Asteroids type game. Trying to get bullet to shoot the same direction the player is facing. Thought I had it figured it out but still not working. Could use some feedback on setting bullet direction. Here’s what I have at the moment:
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thanks,
Mike
Hi-
Few notes since: seems only the animation rotates w/ rotationspeed, and not the sprite itself-stays facing same direction, which is what I’m trying to work around. Make sprite rotate w/ the animation…thx for the hand
Here’s the link: Game Lab - Code.org
HI @michael.coyner,
I believe you are asking about the bullet directions since I see that your ship is rotating according to the arrow keys but the bullets are only shooting directly right or left. I noticed that player.getDirection only captures 0, 180, -180. So, I created a variable that captures the player rotation (lines 19 & 20 in my version) and then applied that variable to the bullet speedanddirection block (line 31).
If this isn’t what you were asking, let us know and we’ll take another look.
~Michelle
Hey-
That works. I see how you used dir variable to track the player direction. That’s the piece I was missing…Thanks so much:)