Recognizing direction of moving affect (any of it) on your hero in degree

[Rany-2512]

@Rany-2512

I would like to have 2 new conditions and 1 action:

• Is Moving Forward
• Is Moving Backward
  and
• Remove Impulse

Horizontal speed is always positive (unlike Vertical speed). Left and Right atm are not important. However it can set a result like Degree to Player (not to World) so Facing direction of player equals 0 degree.

Remove Impulse would be nice to use in races when you want to remove all moving affects, especially when it is in the air to remove horizontal speed affect.

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@Shanalotte-21334

Did you try to check for the angle between the velocity vector and the world vector of(forward)?

@Rany-2512

What do you mean by it?

@Shanalotte-21334

The “velocity of(event player)” value is a vector in the current direction the player is moving.

@Rany-2512

You cannot use it in “Angle between vectors” and “Angle difference” even if it results a vector…

@Shanalotte-21334

Thats strange.

@Rany-2512

Indeed. Tried different combinations…

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@Shanalotte-21334

What about “local vector of(velocity)”?

I have tried this code (below) but it returns only 180 degree max, so you cannot know if it comes from behind, side or whatever…

Code

actions
{
	Create HUD Text(Event Player, Custom String("{0}", Angle Between Vectors(Local Vector Of(Velocity Of(Event Player), Event Player,
		Rotation), World Vector Of(Forward, Event Player, Rotation))), Null, Null, Right, 0, White, White, White,
		Visible To and String, Default Visibility);
}

[Shanalotte-21334]

@Rany-2512

Angle Between Vectors(Local Vector Of(Velocity Of(Event Player), Event Player, Rotation), World Vector Of(Forward, Event Player, Rotation)))

You somehow need to compare either 2 local vectors or 2 world vectors. I don’t know how to tell the system to use the forward relative to the player not to the world, so you might instead just use the world version of the velocity. As directly inputing velocity does not work, you could either try to use “world vector of(local vector of(velocity))”, or another workaround, like “normalize(velocity)”, if this works.