[HELP] Firing Projectiles From a Rotating Turret

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Hi, Kirupians!

I’m working on a top-view game in which you control a tank that fires from a rotating turret (similar to the Wii Play game Tanks). I’ve got the movement and rotation of the turret down, and I’m using this code for the turret rotation:


_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
    turretRadians = Math.atan2(_ymouse - player._y, _xmouse - player._x);
    turretDegrees = Math.round((turretRadians*180/Math.PI));
    player.player_turret._rotation = turretDegrees;
}

That part works just fine, but I’m still having trouble with getting the bullets to fire in the direction I want where I click. I’ve seen this tutorial, but I’d prefer to not just rotate a movie clip, as I may program in ricocheting bullets.

Should I be using trigonometry, algebra, or what? Any help would be very appreciated!

[EDIT] By the way, I’m using Flash 8.