Hello folks,
I have a big problem when I try to rotate my projectiles along with the ship’s rotation.
I want my spaceship shoot two shots at once. So I used my first array of projectiles and placed them at the right side of the ship (one shot on the left and one on the right). So far so good.
But when I shoot with my spaceship and I turn around the rotations of the projectiles look very strange. It’s hard to describe so here’s an image that shows the error in action.
I have huge problems rotating the projectiles ALONG with the spaceship so that it looks really good. Currently there is one single shot only. My shooting gets screwed up when I rotate and fire at once.
The goal is to create a dual firing cannon like in the picture shown.
Here is some code that places the projectile at the left of the ship (that doesn’t really work):
var projectileRadians:Number = (player.frame / 180) * 3.14159;
tempProjectile.x = (player.point.x + 3) + 7 * Math.cos(projectileRadians);
tempProjectile.y = (player.point.y + 3) + 7 * Math.sin(projectileRadians);
tempProjectile.nextX = tempProjectile.x;
tempProjectile.nextY = tempProjectile.y;
tempProjectile.dx = rotationVectorList[player.frame].x;
tempProjectile.dy = rotationVectorList[player.frame].y;
This updates the projectile:
nextX += (dx * (speed + Math.abs(xAdjust))) * step;
nextY += (dy * (speed + Math.abs(yAdjust))) * step;
