Point to mouse with lite.

With GM pro one of the features is being able to make a sprite point towards the mouse, and us guys that only have lite can't stand that we can't use it. But with a different line of code you can do this with GM lite.
Note: Doesn't work with animated sprites unless you find a way, if you do post it.

First make your sprite rotate 360 degrees in 22 frames. Make sure the first frame faces right.
Then in the step event for that object have this code:
image_single=(point_direction(x,y,mouse_x,mouse_y))/360*22

If it's not good enough make the sprite rotate in 360 degrees in 45 frames or 90. If you do change the 22 in the code to however many frames are in the sprite.
Note: If you use too many frames the game will be slow and stupid.

Hopefully you use this well and make your games that little bit better, no need to give credit if you use it.

cool!
Just make the animation 22 frames and then go into animation on the sprite editor select rotate counter clockwise (or clockwise) and 360 * and 22 frames.

Thanks carinivorous! That is a great piece of code. I just might add that in my tutorial with credit to you as creator

JS! if you edit someones post, who doesnt need to be editted, OR if its me your editting i will remove ur mod privliages.

i know im srry i just wanted to try it out. it wont happen again

alright... i was kidding.

and js1210 is the best person ever

You can make 360 degrees to; in the first sprite editor, when you click on Edit Sprite, you can click on Animation + Rotation Sequence + Counter-Clockwise.

Then you have to enter 360 as Number of Frames and 360 as Degrees.

Then, in the Step event of your object, you just have to put :

image_index=point_direction(x,y,mouse_x,mouse_y)

Hope that'll help!

Yeah but that code is Pro only. Its good but this is helpful because its for Lite.

yupp.

Pro? I though it was Lite...let me see...

No! Nothing Pro inside that code!

O yeah my bad. i though it said image_angle.

XD image_index!

oh..

Wiialex8 wrote:You can make 360 degrees to

I did that once, it goes ridiculously slow.

The best solution to rotations, is this:

direction = point_direction(x, y, mouse_x, mouse_y)
image_index = image_number * direction/360

This allows you to have ANY number of sub-images, and it will still work. I recommend 36 or 24 sub-images. Also, if you want animated sprites, here's how you can do this:

Make a new sprite, this contains frame two, repeat as many times as necessary to get all the frames in the animation. Rotate them all anti-clockwise. They should all have the same number of sub-images.
Next step, head over to the object create event, and place this code:
current_frame = 0;
image_frame[0] = 2; // Number of frames
image_frame[1] = spr_frame_1; // Frame 1
image_frame[2]= spr_frame_2; // Frame 2

frame_speed = 1; // Speed of the animation

In the step event, place this code
current_frame += frame_speed;
while (current_frame > image_frame[0]) {current_frame -= image_frame[0];}

In the draw event, place this code:
draw_sprite(image_frame[current_frame], image_index, x, y);

And that should do the job

wow.

Making direction equal point_to_mouse probably won't let the object move properly, because direction is already a variable for which direction the object is moving in.