[HELP] Directions

[Osteel]

Hello all you smart folk

I am currently working on an RPG with a small group and have run into a bit of trouble

Im not much of a action scripter, which is why Im not the one doing so in this project

Anyways, my problem relates to the clicking and movement of the Character (I will attach the .fla)


It works fine and everything, its just that it doesnt do diagonals. It doesnt do it because I dont know how to do the math

I found this in a tutorial and just remade it using the exact same code , and to put it truthfully, the math makes absolutly NO sense to me

Which is why im here

*Attaches .Fla*



The problem lies within this part of the code :

if ((newy-_y)<0 and (tg>3*Math.PI/8 or tg<-3*Math.PI/8)) {
gotoAndStop(3);
}

if ((newy-_y)>0 and (tg>3*Math.PI/8 or tg<-3*Math.PI/8)) {
gotoAndStop(2);
}

if ((newx-_x)>0 and (jobbal>Math.cos(3*Math.PI/8))) {
gotoAndStop(4);
}

if ((newx-_x)<0 and (jobbal>Math.cos(3*Math.PI/8))) {
gotoAndStop(5);
}



Basically, it checks where you click the mouse and then gotoandStop's at a frame in the Character movieclip. Each frame is a different direction

As you can see, there are only 5 directions including stop: Up, Down, Left, Right, but as you can probably guess, it looks a bit awkward on diagonals

So if anyone could please help me out, it would be greatly appreciated, thanks