Need Help with Shooting from Sides

[ioncrisneamtu]

Hi folks, I'm bulding a pirate game in which you control top down pirate ships but I need some help with shooting from their SIDE, just like a normal battleship would do. I once again say that it's top down and the ship object is rotating towards the mouse.

 

[TheouAegis]

At its most basic, just set the direction and image_angle of the bullet to image_angle±90 when the ship creates it. To create the bullet off-center, then instead of creating the bullet at (x,y), create it at (x+lengthdir_x(sprite_height/2,image_angle±90), y+lengthdir_y(sprite_height/2,image_angle±90)).