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[Supertoad25]

How do I check if a solid is ahead, behind, left or right of me when rotated any degrees?
I searched Youtube but they did not have anything, please help.

Edited by Supertoad25, 19 January 2012 - 04:23 PM.

[Sirosky]

You're talking about strafing right? Like what you can do in FPS games?

[Big J]

To strafe left, you'll be strafing in direction + 90; to strafe right, direction - 90.

var strafe;
strafe = 2; //How fast to strafe
//Strafe left
x += lengthdir_x(strafe, direction + 90);
y += lengthdir_y(strafe, direction + 90);
//Strafe right
x += lengthdir_x(strafe, direction - 90);
y += lengthdir_y(strafe, direction - 90);

Edited by Big J, 14 January 2012 - 12:32 AM.

[Supertoad25]

To strafe left, you'll be strafing in direction + 90; to strafe right, direction - 90.

var strafe;
strafe = 2; //How fast to strafe
//Strafe left
x += lengthdir_x(strafe, direction + 90);
y += lengthdir_y(strafe, direction + 90);
//Strafe right
x += lengthdir_x(strafe, direction - 90);
y += lengthdir_y(strafe, direction - 90);

This is a little late, but thank you very much.
But I ran into another problem, the game shuts off when I kill another player...help?

[Big J]

Are you calling instance_destroy() from within a destroy event? Are you calling screen_redraw() in the draw event? Is a script calling itself forever? In all cases, the result is infinite recursion which causes a stack overflow and ends the game without warning and without any visible error message.

[Supertoad25]

Are you calling instance_destroy() from within a destroy event? Are you calling screen_redraw() in the draw event? Is a script calling itself forever? In all cases, the result is infinite recursion which causes a stack overflow and ends the game without warning and without any visible error message.

Okay, turns out I was telling Gamemaker to turn the event, when it's destroyed, into another event when I could of just did that in the step event.
So thanks very much for that post, it helped me figure out the problem, but, I need to know how to check solids forward, backward, etc. when rotated.