Element rotate's to direction heading script?

[WiZzkid]

hi i was just wondering is anyone had a script that makes an element rotate to direction its heading? or is it not possible?

Thx,
Andy

[Heightfield]

I suppose you could do something like:
(in the starting script Set x1 and y1 to any variable that does not equal myElement.x and myElement.y. This will ensure you don't get any division by 0 errors)


x2 = x1
y2 = y1

x1 = myElement.x
y1 = myElement.y

// Using a bit of code from one of blanius' functions:
myElement.rotation = atan2((x1-x2),(y1-y2))

Hopefully that should work, I'm not sure if it's entirely what you wanted though.

[WiZzkid]

urrrrm i cant seem to get it to work??? it just does nothing.

sorry i wasnt to clear in my first post what i mean it should do is , say you have made the spaceship follow the mouse around (note:using velocity NOT:"myElement.x=MouseX"()) . how would i get the spaceship turn around to the direction its heading? there must be a way? i dont know wether thats what the above codes meant to do could someone uppload an example. lol coz im still a n00b at this

Thx
Andy

[ppedz]

Check this thread out I think it may be what you are looking for.
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=632439