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[FantasyVI]

hay guys

can someone tell me how can i make the player look at the mouse like in Alien shooter ? here take a look at this video.



i'm Using SFML and c++

[JTippetts]

Reverse project the on-screen mouse coordinates into world coordinates to calculate the location on the ground plane of the mouse, subtract the player's location from this mouse position to calculate a vector, normalize that vector to unit length and calculate a rotation matrix around the Up axis that will orient the player to face along that vector. This works if your characters are 3D models. If they are 2D pre-rendered, then instead of calculating a rotation matrix, you would select the appropriate facing-direction animation from the set of facing directions.

[FantasyVI]

Reverse project the on-screen mouse coordinates into world coordinates to calculate the location on the ground plane of the mouse, subtract the player's location from this mouse position to calculate a vector, normalize that vector to unit length and calculate a rotation matrix around the Up axis that will orient the player to face along that vector. This works if your characters are 3D models. If they are 2D pre-rendered, then instead of calculating a rotation matrix, you would select the appropriate facing-direction animation from the set of facing directions.

thank you

[FlyingDutchman]

you can also do the following.

you get the x and y coordinate from the mouse..

than u divide the screen into 4 areas and let the player be 0/0 as the midpoint

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you look now in which area the mouse is and than u create a right-angled triangle.

the vector from the player to the mouse is the hypotenuse. from now you can calculate the alpha or beta radiant and use this to rotate your caracter.

I used this technic 2 weeks ago in a game i wrote which will soon be available on my blog (with source code).. http://howtomakeitin....wordpress.com/

heres the source code.. ( i know, most of the variables are useless and it could be written shorter, .. i dont know what i did, it was 5am s.th. :-)

void CObject::rotate(unsigned int pointx, unsigned int pointy, int w, int h)
{
	unsigned int midx = this->x + w/2;
	unsigned int midy = this->y + h/2;

	double squarea;
	double squareb;
	double root;
	double angleplus;

	// create triangle
	double b;			// ankathete
	double a;			// gegenkathete
	double c;			// hypothenuse			c = sqrt(a² + b²)

	// in which area is pointx, pointy;
	if (pointx > midx && pointy < midy)			// viereck oben rechts
	{
		b = pointx - midx;
		a = midy - pointy;
		this->angle = 270;						// stellt object auf 0 grad
		
		squarea = a*a;
		squareb = b*b;

		root = squarea+squareb;

		c = sqrt(root);			// hypothenuse berechnet

		angleplus = asin(b/c)* 180.0 / M_PI;

		this->angle=this->angle+angleplus;		// addiert den winkel
	}
	else if (pointx > midx && pointy > midy)	// viereck unten rechts		// gut
	{
		b = pointx - midx;
		a = pointy - midy;
		this->angle = 0;
		squarea = a*a;
		squareb = b*b;

		root = squarea+squareb;

		c = sqrt(root);			// hypothenuse berechnet

		angleplus = acos(b/c)* 180.0 / M_PI;

		this->angle=this->angle+angleplus;		// addiert den winkel
	}
	else if (pointx < midx && pointy < midy)	// viereck oben links		// gut
	{
		b = midx - pointx;
		a = midy - pointy;
		this->angle = 180;
		squarea = a*a;
		squareb = b*b;

		root = squarea+squareb;

		c = sqrt(root);			// hypothenuse berechnet

		angleplus = acos(b/c)* 180.0 / M_PI;

		this->angle=this->angle+angleplus;		// addiert den winkel
	
	}
	else if (pointx < midx && pointy > midy)	// viereck unten links
	{
		b = midx - pointx;
		a = pointy - midy;
		this->angle = 90;
		squarea = a*a;
		squareb = b*b;

		root = squarea+squareb;

		c = sqrt(root);			// hypothenuse berechnet

		angleplus = asin(b/c)* 180.0 / M_PI;

		this->angle=this->angle+angleplus;		// addiert den winkel
	}
}

[Topher Cox]

you can also do the following.

you get the x and y coordinate from the mouse..

than u divide the screen into 4 areas and let the player be 0/0 as the midpoint

Alternatively, you just use atan2.