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I'm making a sidescroller, fantasy platformer. And I want the character to be able to cast spells and have his hand face out to where the mouse is. I have the registration point on his arm as his shoulder, but I don't know how to properly rotate his arm to the mouse point. Can anyone, please help me with this?

UnknownFury

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Posted at: 5/17/08 02:30 PM

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Use trigonometry. Calculate the x distance from the mouse and the y distance. Then use the atan2 function to calculate the angle and rotate accordingly.

xd = _x - _root._xmouse;
yd = _y - _root._ymouse;
_rotation = Math.atan2(yd, xd);

Because your arm MC is inside another its going to be a bit more complicated I guess and you'll have to use localToGlobal.

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Posted at: 5/17/08 02:48 PM

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I'm still a bit confused. Can you explain what the LocaltoGlobal function is?

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