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Simple Question - TGB

by Justin Proffitt · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 07/08/2009 (3:45 pm) · 3 replies

I am having trouble thinking today, and I am still some what new to Torque (had it a few months). I am certain that I encountered a tutorial which provided one line of code which will calculate the angle from point a to point b, without having to do any conversions because of Torque's way of using degrees (0 at top progressing clockwise; range from -359 to 359). So, given I have provided enough information, how can I do this in one line/statement? Or is it technically impossible without doing some conversion somewhere?

Edit: No longer so simple.
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    Torque Owner Tyler Slabinski
    #1
    07/08/2009 (4:18 pm)
    You're just in luck! This is my code that I used to get an angle between when you click and release the mouse:

    function convertAngle()
{
      %xSlope = (%bX - %eX);
      %ySlope = (%bY - %eY);

      %angle = ((mRadToDeg(mAtan(%xSlope, %ySlope)) + 90) * -1) + 180; //Get the arctan of the slopes. Then convert it to degrees.}

    %bX and %bY are the beginning points of what you want the angle to be. The X and Y positions of them.
    %eX and %eY are the ending points of what you want the angle to be.

    Then it does math to get the arc tangeant of the slopes. Does a few mathematics, and then puts it into degrees form.

    Torque Owner Justin Proffitt
    #2
    07/08/2009 (6:54 pm)
    In theory your code works, thank you :)

    Edit: fixed, tackling syntax issues now but that is all.

    Torque Owner Justin Proffitt
    #3
    07/09/2009 (8:35 am)
    Well I am on to a different problem, how can you return two values from one function, like getPosition() does, in torquescript?

    Edit: This gets its own thread.