How do i move a sprite with the left stick?

smoof1738

Need help with moving a sprite around with the left stick
I usually do setspritespeed(sprite, speed) and i have a speed vector that's modified by the control stick. That doesnt move the sprite though, even with the help of updatesprites()
I've been trying to deal with this for like 2 days now so i'd appreciate some help

Martin

Hi - welcome to the Arena!

There is an example of exactly this in the help tutorials:
https://fuzearena.com/help/view/Sprite Game

About a third of the way down the page there is a line "Now let's apply some controls:" and it introduces modifying the velocity of the sprite by the left control stick.

Dave

You could also use the sprite properties to do this. Doing setSpriteSpeed( sprite, speed ) is exactly the same as sprite.x_speed = speed and sprite.y_speed = speed.

Make sure you're reading the controllers in the loop:

loop
    clear()
    c = controls(0)

    sprite.x_speed += c.lx
    sprite.y_speed -= c.ly // we use -= because of the screen dimensions to make it move properly on the y axis, otherwise down on the stick will move upwards.

    // apply a deceleration - the 0.9 is the rate of slowdown. Numbers closer to 1 will result in longer deceleration.
    sprite.x_speed *= 0.9
    sprite.y_speed *= 0.9 

    updateSprites()
    drawSprites()
repeat

smoof1738

@Dave thanks a bunch!