Move direction

[Distorted]

I'm making a top-down game in which my player is facing to the top of the screen at all times, and instead the floor is rotating when I move the mouse. is there any way I could make my character move forwards, backwards, left and right in the direction which my sprite is facing?

the direction stays the same while the view_angle is rotating, I tried fixing this by typing "direction=view_angle" but that doesn't seem to work :/

 

[obscene]

Probably going to be as simple as moving your player in the direction of view_angle+90 or something like that.

 

[Joe134]

Dunno if you did this or not, but you have to specify which view angle, ie. view_angle[0]

 

[Distorted]

Probably going to be as simple as moving your player in the direction of view_angle+90 or something like that.

I already did, but that's only moving my player in the right direction. I'm still going the same direction wherever I'm facing :/

 

[Nux]

are you using hspeed/custom variables or simply speed?

if you're using hspeed, try use speed.

alternatively, if you're using custom variables, you should set them depending on the vector of speed, in other words, set then depending on the angle:

spd = 5; // pixels per frame
hsp = lengthdir_x(spd,direction);
vsp = lengthdir_y(spd,direction);

EDIT::

I already did, but that's only moving my player in the right direction. I'm still going the same direction wherever I'm facing :/

Yes. This is what happens, since you are changing the view angle and direction by the same ammount, therefore it gives the illusion you are moving constantly right, but you're not.

Remove the code that changes the view angle, and you'll soon find that you'll be moving in a line depending on direction.

 

[Distorted]

Dunno if you did this or not, but you have to specify which view angle, ie. view_angle[0]

yes

are you using hspeed/custom variables or simply speed?

if you're using hspeed, try use speed.

alternatively, if you're using custom variables, you should set them depending on the vector of speed, in other words, set then depending on the angle:

spd = 5; // pixels per frame
hsp = lengthdir_x(spd,direction);
vsp = lengthdir_y(spd,direction);

EDIT::

Yes. This is what happens, since you are changing the view angle and direction by the same ammount, therefore it gives the illusion you are moving constantly right, but you're not.

Remove the code that changes the view angle, and you'll soon find that you'll be moving in a line depending on direction.

You're amazing, thanks ^^