GameMaker: Studio 100 Programming Challenges

© Ben Tyers 2017

Ben Tyers, GameMaker: Studio 100 Programming Challenges, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2644-5_66

66. Distance from Object to Mouse

Ben Tyers¹ 

(1)Worthing, West Sussex, UK

Challenge Outline Create an object whose instances calculate and display its distance and direction from the mouse cursor.	Level 1 Beginner 12 Minutes Medium 8 Minutes Advanced 4 Minutes
Additional Challenge Allow a mouse click to add and remove instances.	Points In Time 10 Additional 20

Notes on Approaching This Challenge

Just get the distance and angle using appropriate scripts.

Guide

You can get the distance and angle:

dist=distance_to_point(mouse_x,mouse_y);angle=point_direction(x,y,mouse_x,mouse_y) ...