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Harry
Harry

Reputation: 1091

How to move a sprite relative to another sprite's rotation?

In my game I have a rocket sprite and at the bottom of the rocket there is an animated flame sprite , I want the flame sprite to align with the bottom of the rocket when the rocket rotates.

This is the rocket when the game starts, everything is OK:

Initial position

But when i rotate the rocket the flame does not align with the rocket's bottom like this:

After rotation

How can i make it align?

here is my code:

    // draw rocket
    rocketSprite.setRegion(AssetLoader.rocketTexture);
    rocketSprite.setPosition(rocket.getX(), rocket.getY());
    rocketSprite.setOrigin(rocket.getWidth() / 2, rocket.getHeight() / 2);
    rocketSprite.setSize(rocket.getWidth(), rocket.getHeight());
    rocketprite.setRotation(rocket.getRotation());
    rocketSprite.setScale(1, 1);
    rocketPodSprite.draw(game.batch);


    //flame width and height
    int w = 70;
    int h = 20;

    // randomly change scale of flame for effects
    float sw = MathUtils.random(2f / 7f, 1);
    float sh = MathUtils.random(0.5f, 1);

    // draw flame
    flameSprite.setRegion(AssetLoader.flameTexture);
    flameSprite.setPosition(rocket.getX() + rocket.getWidth() / 2 - w, rocket.getY() - 15);
    flameSprite.setOrigin(w, h / 2);
    flameSprite.setSize(w, h);
    flameSprite.setRotation(rocket.getRotation());
    flameSprite.setScale(sw, sh);
    flameSprite.draw(game.batch);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 365

Answers (1)

m.antkowicz
m.antkowicz

Reputation: 13571

You need to change origin - point arround which your sprite will be rotated.

Your problem is that both rocket and flame are rotated arround their own centres however you would rather like to rotate them both arround rocket's one. Then you need to set the flame sprite origin with position of rocket center.

    flameSprite.setOrigin(w, h / 2 + rocket.getHeight() / 2 + SPACE_BETWEEN_ROCKET_AND_FLAME);

As I see in your case the SPACE_BETWEEN_ROCKET_AND_FLAME has value of 15 - flame.height due to this position set:

    flameSprite.setPosition(rocket.getX() + rocket.getWidth() / 2 - w, rocket.getY() - 15);

Upvotes: 2

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