Lets say i have for a ship at the coordinates x,y. If this ship for example is facing the top of the monitor, I rotate the picture of this ship 10 degrees to the right using api and want the ship to move 5 pixels forward in the direction the ship is now facing. How do i calculate the new coordinates for the ship?

angle += 10;
x += cos(angle) * x;
y += sin(angle) * x;

//convert to radians first if youre not using a lookout table with degrees

Thank you very much for responding. Now could you please also explain why it works?


Thanks!

x += cos(angle);

this calculates the movement along a line that has an angle from the x axis of (angle). basic trigonometry.

y -= sin(angle);

does the same thing for the y movement. as philvaz wrote this should be -= since the screen has a coordinate system that is upside down to the one you usually use so you subtract instead of adding. my bad

philvaz'' THRUST_SPEED is a variable increases/decreases the distance moved along the line. increase this to make the ship move faster

basicly what it does is it split up a leaning line to two stright lines. one parallell to the x axis and one to the y axis

to turn the ship add/subtract to angle (between 0 to 360 degrees, or 0 to 2PI radians)

Thank you very much. Now i can both use this to move things around at any angle i want, and i understand what i am doing.
Game programming is a excellent way to learn trig.