particles and direction woes

[trookat]

I need someone to take a look and point out what i am doing wrong

What is meant to happen. press direction arrow , moves ship in the desired direction , particles come out flowing to the opposite direction.

what happens, ship rotates incorrectly , particles flow in weird directions.

[Taehl]

Sounds to me like you've messed up some trigonometry (math.sin, math.cos, and the like). Sadly, I'm awful at math, so I doubt I could be of much assistance. So either play with that, or someone else will be along shortly to help.

[Ellohir]

It's not a math thing. It's the way you store the angle information. You calculate the difference between previous and current "x" position and "y" position. The problem is, when you go only on the "x" position that "y differential" doesn't dissapear, so it keeps showing the ship and the particles as going diagonally. My suggestion is to widen your control "if" block with the 8 directions, turning each case into an "elseif".

[trookat]

It's not a math thing. It's the way you store the angle information. You calculate the difference between previous and current "x" position and "y" position. The problem is, when you go only on the "x" position that "y differential" doesn't dissapear, so it keeps showing the ship and the particles as going diagonally. My suggestion is to widen your control "if" block with the 8 directions, turning each case into an "elseif".

thanks i just worked it out just before rechecking the thread if your interested here is the fixed version

[Ellohir]

Nice job, control feels great now

[LiquidDandruff]

the particles look great!