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Hi,
How can I make my actor look in the moving direction.
Of course, I've got a rotating animation, so all I need is to have the draw actor code. Thanks

IF you are using angle, just put

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animpos = (angle / 360) * nframes;

to get a basic one. For a more efficient one, if you have 36 frames, you can use

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animpos = angle * .1;

For other numbers of frames you will have to adjust the .1

Thanks Dillodude! I will make it 36 frames, but do you know any good software to rotate an image without having troubles with the blackground? Is the paint.net for example good enough?

I don't know really. Most of the time when I do rotations I use a 3d model.

use animation shop 3

I'll try that, thanks!

you are welcome

I made a very nice 360 frames animation with Animation Shop 3! It's pitty that my animation shop is trial and will finish in I think 20 days. Maybe I should make now lots of rotating sprites for my future's game projects.

Gimp will work for that too, no expiry, and it has an animation add on, also free, but i havent tried it yet.

One of my friends mentioned gimp but I didn't found the animation system from it. Maybe I just haven't got the addon or something.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

if you are using windows.. its at the bottom of that page.

THANKS!

tekdino wrote:One of my friends mentioned gimp but I didn't found the animation system from it. Maybe I just haven't got the addon or something.

If you are making a gif animation, just use the layers dialog, and add a layer for each frame.

DilloDude wrote:I don't know really. Most of the time when I do rotations I use a 3d model.

Same here!

I am also using a 3d model in one of my current game projects, but sometimes I need a smooth rotation of 360 frames.
This is one 3d model I made for Orbiter and for one of my game projects: