"homing" missiles?

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elseano (Posted 2004) [#1]

I've been trying to do this for a while now....Basically, what I need is an algorythm that points an enemy or enemy's missile towards the player each frame. I thought it would be something to do with sin/tan and the player's x and y position, but I can't get my head around it...:S Can anyone help me with this?

Mr Brine (Posted 2004) [#2]

yo dude! check it out: http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1073 Mr Brine

Murilo (Posted 2004) [#3]

Doesn't work for me. Is it something to do with the scope of variables ox and oy (I only had a very quick glance)?

Floyd (Posted 2004) [#4]

The upload got corrupted. ox should be o\x.

Mr Brine (Posted 2004) [#5]

Thanks floyd! Ive fixed the code so it should work ok now!