Pointing an image

[Anxiety]

How can i point an image to where the mouse is?

'Nuff said.

Thanks!

[Robin]

love.mouse.getPosition gives you the position of the mouse, you can use that to draw an image at that location. Note that the image will always lag behind the cursor somewhat, that's just the way it is.

[Anxiety]

Woops, i meant to not place but POINT the image where the mouse is using the rotation.

Sorry about that.

[Anxiety]

I was thinking of something like calculating the radian direction between the image and the mouse and i know some versions of Lua use (pos1-pos2).unit but is that valid in Löve?

(Thats one long sentence!)

[Taehl]

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-- Returns the angle between two points.
function math.getAngle(x1,y1, x2,y2) return math.atan2(x2-x1, y2-y1) end

Plug the image's and the mouse's coordinates into there, and it'll give you the rotation you want.

[Robin]

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-- Returns the angle between two points.
function math.getAngle(x1,y1, x2,y2) return math.atan2(x2-x1, y2-y1) end

Plug the image's and the mouse's coordinates into there, and it'll give you the rotation you want.

Something like that, but note that you might have to play with it a bit to get it right. Things you might need to compensate for:

• In LÖVE, the y value increases towards the bottom of the screen. In mathematical terms, y would decrease.
• LÖVE considers upright to be rotation = 0, while mathematics see 0 as pointing to the right.

[Anxiety]

Thanks!

Why does people always give me code snippets in dont understand how to use?

[Anxiety]

Ohwait now i got it working... Theres just one problem. The character i use is normally pointing up. But when i move the mouse around, the character looks in odd directions.

[Jasoco]

Ohwait now i got it working... Theres just one problem. The character i use is normally pointing up. But when i move the mouse around, the character looks in odd directions.

Then subtract the amount of rotation. Like since 0 is actually to the right, you'll need to either add or subtract 90. I forget which. I used this method yesterday to get an enemy to move towards the player and will use it for aiming at the player for static enemies. You just need to play around.

[Taehl]

You mean, math.pi*.5, right? Rotating by 90 radians would be like rotating by 5156 degrees...