in a brick breaker how to make the racket move with the mouse

[Zoltars55]

in a brick breaker how to make the racket move with the mouse and prevent the racket from going out of the screen from left to right?

 

[TsukaYuriko]

The mouse's position is stored in mouse_x and mouse_y. You can assign these to the coordinates of any instance.

You can use the clamp function to limit a returned value between a lower and upper bound. The left side of the screen's x coordinate is 0, while the right side's is room_width.

 

[Yal]

Instance coordinates are the variables x and y, just for the record.

 

[woods]

something as easy as...?

step event of the racket

racket .x = mouse.x

 

[TheouAegis]

Not that easy. That's just going to make the paddle teleport around the screen.

if abs(mouse_x - x) > 4
hspeed = median(-4, 4, mouse_x - x);

Change the 4 inside the median to how fast the paddle can move.

 

[Yal]

something as easy as...?

step event of the racket

racket .x = mouse.x

It would work, but...

and prevent the racket from going out of the screen from left to right?

...it wouldn't stop the racket from going out of the screen.

So we need to limit the racket at the edges of the screen... we could clamp the coordinates at the edges:

racket.x = clamp(mouse_x, 64, room_width - 64);

(replace the 64 with however much empty space you have outside the level, they don't even need to be the same on the left and right sides)