So I have a character on screen controlled with arrow keys, and a mouse controlled crosshair.
Current Event:
Fire 2 is pressed, shoot 'bullet' from 'player' in the direction of 'crosshair' 0'0
the thing is, its not shooting directly at the middle of the crosshair, i have the action/hotspot located in the middle of it, but most of the time it shoots just under the WHOLE crosshair, i need pinpoint accuracy.
It's becasue you're using a built-in movement for the bullet. This means the bullet can only travel in one of 32 different directions.
You need to use some simple trigonometry to make the shooting precise. If you search for "360 degree shooting / aiming" I'm sure you'll find heaps of examples, but basically it's like this:
* Fire is pressed
-> create "Bullet"
-> set Alterable Value X("Bullet") to X("Player")
-> set Alterable Value Y("Bullet") to Y("Player")
-> set Alterable Value A("Bullet") to angle between player and crosshair (use the advanced direction extension to find this).
* Always
-> set Alterable Value X("Bullet") to Alterable Value X("Bullet")+(Cos(Alterable Value A("Bullet")) * Bullet_Speed)
-> set Alterable Value Y("Bullet") to Alterable Value Y("Bullet")-(Sin(Alterable Value A("Bullet")) * Bullet_Speed)
-> set X("Bullet") to set Alterable Value X("Bullet")
-> set Y("Bullet") to set Alterable Value Y("Bullet")
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