Changine missle direction angle?

[Hblade]

Okay, I have a missile and it fails to change its animpos Its a homing missile, I have the homing part down pact but its the changing the animation is the problem >.>

How would I have it change? Its an 8 frame missile, here:

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I need it to change as if it's really homing in on the player

[savvy]

use this:

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angle=direction(x,y,-target-.x,-target-.y);animpos=(angle/360)*-amount of frames(8)-;

change the amount of frames to 8 in your case, and the target to what its homing in on.

[Hblade]

Thanks savvy !

[savvy]

np

[Hblade]

The variable called "nframes" will tell you how much frames is in 1 animation so use -nframes instead of 8 :3

[DilloDude]

If you already know the number of frames (which you should, considering you made the animation) you can just use the number of degrees.

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animpos = angle / 45;

This only uses one division, so is more efficient.
Even better, you can do a multiplacation - take the angle - in this case 45 - and divide 1 by it. 1 / 45 = 0.022222222222222222222222222222222
That would be

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animpos = angle * 0.022222222222222222222222222222222;

This is not quite such a nice number for it, so you may want to divide anyway. But when it becomes a nice compact number, such as .1 or .025 or whatever, you can multiply.