I'm trying to figure out how to offset a body on another body so that it follows with with its rotation. I cannot find many clear resources on the subject. I'm working on a space shooter and I'm new to game development. I appreciate any help. main.lua function love.load() love.graphics.setDefaultFil...

Here is my code. It works! Thank you again for all your help. function love.load() love.graphics.setDefaultFilter('nearest', 'nearest') world = love.physics.newWorld(0,0,true) redship = {} redship['body'] = love.physics.newBody(world, 0, 0, "dynamic") redship['shape'] = love.physics.newRec...

Sorry for the double post. I've read your OP again now. Certainly I wouldn't use local coordinates to do that. An approach that may give decent results is to turn the ships at constant angular velocity. You need the difference between the original angle and the target angle, and the sign of that wi...

Here is my script so far. function love.load() love.graphics.setDefaultFilter('nearest', 'nearest') world = love.physics.newWorld(0,0,true) redship = {} redship['body'] = love.physics.newBody(world, 0, 0, "dynamic") redship['shape'] = love.physics.newRectangleShape(5,5) redship['image'] = ...

I'm new to love and I am building a little space shooter. I need to figure out how to get local coords to manipulate a physics body in the game. Basically I need to figure out how to rotate my ship on screen using the mouse, and then I want to dampen the rotation so it feels slow like a ship or tank...