From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-02-15T20:23:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Making an object follow another object - FAIL!

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Lasse Svensson <a02larsv@gmail.com> wrote:

>  My question is a mathematical one, here we go:
>
>  As you can see here "    angle2 = (atan((y2pos-ypos) /
>  (x2pos-xpos)))/(PI/180)" I determined the angle of the second object by
>  calculating the angle between the two objects. It works as long as
>  angle2 is less than 90 or more than 270, but if it gets between there it
>  breaks away.
>
>  Is there any problems with my math, or is there some other problem
>  somewhere in the code that makes it behave like that?

I'm not going to help with the math, but is there some reason why you
don't just keep a position buffer, the length of which (the length of
the array) determines the distance between the two sprites?  That way,
it just follows a path instead of an angle.

Todd