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Hey Everybody, I would like my actor to create a bullet in the direction the mouse is pointing But i dont want the bullet to keep following the mouse. Like when i click left mouse button my actor creates the bullet going to the mouse.
If somebody could give me a code or help or something it would be greatly apreciated thanks

Just use

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angle = direction(xscreen, yscreen, xmouse, ymouse);

on bullet's create actor.
If you have a rotation animation and you want the bullet to point in the right direction, also add

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animpos = (angle / 360) * nframes;

for the standard animation starting pointing to the right, and rotating counter-clock-wise.

how do i make it wear if i click anywere on the screen my guy creates the bullet. i dont have a rotation animation its just a ball. i want the ball to go to wear the mouse was at a velocity of 10. i think im not doing something with the code that you gave me

First, you need an actor to catch mouse clicks. Either use a filled region or an actor that follows the mouse using the FollowMouse function. If it follows the mouse, it's a good idea to make it a largish circle or something. Then set visibility state to DONT_DRAW_ONLY, and you can change the cursor if you like. Now, you have two options: right-click on the sensor actor, say add new activation event, set it to mousebuttondown->left mouse button, and select your player as the receiving actor, or ad a mousebutton down script editor event with

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sendActivationEvent("Player");

Now on your player actor, add a new event, Activation Event, from your mouse sensor, and use a CreateActor to create a bullet. On the bullet's create actor event, say

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directional_velocity = 10;//adjust value to your preference
angle = direction(xscreen, yscreen, xmouse, ymouse);

When i did that my bullet was just created from were i clicked not from my guy

You need to have the guy receive the activation event and create the bullet, rather than have the actor that receives the mousebuttondown event create it.

for an example look at the abuse demo. you'll have to sort through a bunch of other code to see what you are aiming for though.

Thanks DilloDude i got it working now!
your very good at explaining

whenever i do this the bullet simpley goes slightly up and slightly over
like it goes toward the 10# on a clock