Local Velocity

[NightJumper]

So was messing around with applying velocity and acceleration to sprites based on a local coordinate system of the sprite, this is useful at least for my game when using the accelerometer I want sprite to always move forward in relation to its direction when the phone is tilted forward. So instead of always having to calculate the required X and Y components to find what I need every time I want to adjust speed I made a couple of methods to do it and that way I just apply it to the local coordinate system of the sprite.

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1.     public void setLocalVelocity(float X, float Y){
2.         final float playy=((float) Math.cos(MathUtils.degToRad(this.getRotation()))*Y)+(float) Math.sin(MathUtils.degToRad(this.getRotation()))*X;
3.         final float playx=((float) Math.sin(MathUtils.degToRad(this.getRotation()))*-Y)+((float) Math.cos(MathUtils.degToRad(this.getRotation()))*X);
4.         this.setVelocity(playx, playy);
5.     }
6.     public void setLocalAcceleration(float X, float Y){
7.         final float playy=((float) Math.cos(MathUtils.degToRad(this.getRotation()))*Y)+(float) Math.sin(MathUtils.degToRad(this.getRotation()))*X;
8.         final float playx=((float) Math.sin(MathUtils.degToRad(this.getRotation()))*-Y)+((float) Math.cos(MathUtils.degToRad(this.getRotation()))*X);
9.         this.setAcceleration(playx, playy);
10.     }

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So using setLocalVelocity(0,10) would always move the sprite in the positive Y direction with respect to it (which in most cases would be down

and setting setLocalVelocity(10,0) would always move the sprite in the positive X direction with respect to itself (should be to the right)

[Nicolas Gramlich]

Moved to Tutorials subforum.

[NightJumper]

Ok thats cool, was kinda thinking it could be a quick addition to moveable objects to add in the source, a nice feature I can see a lot of uses for, but this works also.