Sorry if this is something easy but I'm making an rpg game and I'm rotating a sword around its origin. I want to calculate damage based on the speed of the swords movement, is there anything I can do to track rotation speed?
#Calculating Damage in GML
runic meteor
honest lantern
How're you rotating it?
runic meteor
image_angle = point_direction(x,y,mouse_x,mouse_y);
every step its being aligned with my player
weak violet
you could track how much image_angle is changing each step to get that speed
var prev_angle = image_angle;
image_angle = point_direction(x,y,mouse_x,mouse_y);
var rotation_speed = abs(image_angle - prev_angle);```then take that number and apply whatever multipliers you want to it to get the damage
runic meteor
thank you ill try that
honest lantern
thank you ill try that
You may want angle_difference
Subtracting may get a lil tricky
weak violet
ah yeah that'd also work
runic meteor
what would that do
weak violet
angle_difference returns the difference between two angles
honest lantern
Angle difference takes two angle values. And it will account for things going from 359 -> 0 or 0 -> 359
runic meteor
oh ok
weak violet
yeah what I posted before will get weird if it went from 340 to 20 or something
so angle_difference would be better
var rotation_speed = abs(angle_difference(image_angle, prev_angle)); just swap out the subtraction stuff for angle_difference
runic meteor
thank you ive been thinking of a way but i just started like a week ago ill try that
weak violet
I added the abs (makes any negative number positive) because you presumably don't wanna do negative damage to something if you rotate the sword to the right lol
runic meteor
makes sense lol