# Movie clips that point towards the mouse
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-that-point-towards-the-mouse/186674
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 23, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-that-point-towards-the-mouse/186674 "2006-04-23T15:27:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@willgoldstone7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/willgoldstone7)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-that-point-towards-the-mouse/186674/1 "2006-04-23T15:27:54Z")
hi i am looking to be able to have a movie clip that always faces the direction of the mouse and don’t have the first clue how to do it. all i can guess is that it uses radians in some way. please can you help me?
cheers
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### Author:  [@ostmalm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ostmalm)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-that-point-towards-the-mouse/186674/2 "2006-04-23T17:17:10Z")
here you go
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### Author:  [@willgoldstone7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/willgoldstone7)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-that-point-towards-the-mouse/186674/3 "2006-04-23T18:49:04Z")
thats great thanks
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### Author:  [@engghost](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/engghost)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-that-point-towards-the-mouse/186674/4 "2006-04-23T19:56:33Z")
thanks a lot ostmalm for ur file
but i hope u can give some hit a bout the code
jut to know how to think in such problems
thanks again