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how to make characters face the direction of the mouse

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#140602892Thursday, July 17, 2014 5:32 AM GMT

i was making a game with a topdown camera and i wanted the character to face the mouse to make aiming better

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#140603136Thursday, July 17, 2014 5:35 AM GMT

why waste time doing so when you can just take what's available..? http://www.roblox.com/Top-Down-Shooter-OPEN-SOURCE-place?id=89896219

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#140603511Thursday, July 17, 2014 5:39 AM GMT

but i'll start hating you because you're not making your own things

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#140604907Thursday, July 17, 2014 5:53 AM GMT

i was asking cause i didn't know how to that and im not doing a shooter game. Man people cant ask help for one thing these days. its not like im asking you to script my entire game im just asking on how to make the character face the mouse. I would appreciate it if you helped me. i would give credit too

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#140605027Thursday, July 17, 2014 5:54 AM GMT

atan2 enough said

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#140605708Thursday, July 17, 2014 6:02 AM GMT

i might have learned what atan2 is but looking at it now i have no idea what the fk it is. atan is life, atan2 is for noobs :3

BalisticMissile

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#140605789Thursday, July 17, 2014 6:03 AM GMT

atan2 is atan with 2 arguments.

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#140606059Thursday, July 17, 2014 6:07 AM GMT

tbh i don't remember atan to well either

BalisticMissile

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#140606252Thursday, July 17, 2014 6:09 AM GMT

atan is short for Arc Tangent. Also known as inverse tangent. On a calculator this would be represented as cos with an exponent of negative one.

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#140606325Thursday, July 17, 2014 6:10 AM GMT

lolwat sorry. I said cos with an exponent of negative one. I mean tangent with an exponent of negative one.

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#140607543Thursday, July 17, 2014 6:28 AM GMT

i figured out o]how to make the character follow the mouse but now i need to know how to hide roblox interfaces like the leader board

BalisticMissile

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#140607665Thursday, July 17, 2014 6:30 AM GMT

Make a LocalScript in the Starterpack with this in it game.StarterGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled("PlayerList", false)

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#140607810Thursday, July 17, 2014 6:33 AM GMT

Thank you, you helped me a lot :3 I will make sure to give you credit cause i was stuck for a while now.