How to Shoot...

[DonQuixote]

I am trying to make a (semi-) Starcraft game that works perfectly so far. But there's only one problem ... How do I make the spacecrafts shoot in the direction that they are facing??? This plagues up the entire game... when i tried myriad ways, all failed... Plz Help!
THANX A LOT!!!

[SuperGenius]

It depends on the viewpoint. I assuume you used an isomatric setup like in starcraft?

[AsianSensation]

well, if you know what angle they are facing, then shooting is easy.

instead of normal bullets that goes straight up like this:

code:

loop     y += 5     drawfilloval (x, y, 5, 5, red)     cls end loop

do something like this:

code:

loop     y += sind (angle)     x += cosd (angle)     drawfilloval (x, y, 5, 5, red)     cls end loop

where the variable angle is the angle they are facing.