Making the player rotate towards the mouse cursor

[danberry]

Hi everyone,

I'm very new to using both LOVE and Lua, and so I was wondering how I would go about making the player rotate towards the mouse cursor inside of my game. Any help is appreciated.

[togFox]

Do you have any code that draws your player?

You can copy/paste and we'll see if we can help.

[ReFreezed]

Use math.atan2() to get the angle between two points.

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local angleFromPlayerToMouse = math.atan2(mouseY-playerY, mouseX-playerX)

You could also look at this other recent thread: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=93566

[danberry]

Just got it to work - thank you!