rotating sprite in direction of drag

[KonMos]

Hi there,

I want to implement a car which can be dragged and is able to turn around corners while being draged

so far I only found a posibility to turn in direction of the pointer (eg mouse) but than the car turns before it is even (pixelperfect)clicked too

any sugguesstions or helpfull links?

 

thanks:)

 

[in mono]

Collect a statistic of the last few points the car has been at and use them to smooth the rotation.

[Odk]

You can update car rotation only if button is pressed. To smooth the rotation I would calculate angle between objects ( http://phaser.io/docs/2.6.2/Phaser.Math.html#angleBetweenPoints ) and slowly correct it toward 0 if it's bigger than some small value. I would never target 0 value as it will make car vibrating. Pseudo code would look something like this:

if buttonPressed {
  if angleBetween(car, pointer) > 0.2 {
    car.rotation += (or -=) 0.1
  }
}

You need to experiment wit the values and check if this works for you.

[KonMos]

thanks for all the suggestions. the car now turns only when the input eg mouse is clicked but does not update contionously when the pointer is moving around.

any suggestions how to update?

[KonMos]

oh and it needs to be a pixelperfect drag with rotation too

[KonMos]

anyone?