Getting an actor to constantly face another

[Travis]

I'm having trouble using setactorangle to get an actor always look at another actor. It probably requires some sort of math equation which I fail too much at to do?

[LilWhiteMouse]

This function makes one actor face another:

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function int face (int facer, int target)
	{
	int x = (GetActorX(target) - GetActorX(facer));
	int y = (GetActorY(target) - GetActorY(facer));
	SetActorAngle(facer, VectorAngle(x, y));
	return 0;
	}

Then just use this in a script to make your actor face another, where TID1 is the tid of the actor you want to turn, and TID2 is the actor you want it to face.

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face(TID1, TID2);

[Travis]

Oh wow, that simple, huh? *smacks forehead*

Thanks LWM!

[Isle]

if you do
function VOID name(args)
you dont have to retrun anything.

[solarsnowfall]

You know there's absolutely no reason for that function to return a value. I wrote this explicitly for uses like this. The idea was that it returns an angle that you can do whatever you want with.

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Script 1 (VOID)
{
    SetActorAngle (1, GetTargetAngle (1, 2));
}

Where tid 2 is the actor you want tid 1 to look at.
[edit] Damn you Isle!!!

[LilWhiteMouse]

if you do
function VOID name(args)
you dont have to retrun anything.

That's good to know, thanks.