Game maker question!

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Now it's time to whip out your giant clubs of knowledge which you may smite me with!
I wish for some one to whack out he problem that I'm having with with the way game maker defines the direction in witch the object is facing.


(If you wish to know why I typed this paragraph in such a way lets just say I watch too much Beakman's World.)

For some reason direction 270 is down. I have no idea why.

No what I talking about is how does your object know where it's facing? Kind of like a virtual compass for your object.

Just make it move in a direction at speed zero to choose a direction. That should work. If thats not what you mean, make a variable that is set when you choose a direction, and set the variable to whatever direction you are meant to be facing (ie 180 = left)

If I understand your question correctly:

When you press right:
facing = 0
When you press left
facing = 180

you said compass...right?

point_direction(x1,y1,x2,y2)

This post has been edited by Elyk19 on Dec 11 2007, 09:51 PM

I have another question.
Does any of these thing work? Also where do I insert these codes?

This is what I do:

Step 1: Create your sprites(ex. mario), but only facing right. Center the x point in the sprite origin.

Step 2: Create an "Execute code" in the step event. Open it.

Step 3: This is what you put in the code -->
if keyboard_check(vk_left)
image_xscale = -1
if keyboard_check(vk_right)
image_xscale = 1
//end

ALTERNATIVE: If you mean the way its facing (from a 0-360 degree scale) you need to use this:
image_angle = ?
replace ? with a number between 1-360. 0 being right, 90 being up, 180 being left, and 270 being down.THIS REQUIRE THE REG. VERSION
I've attached an open source(Directional.gmk) and an exe for those without gm7.

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