Moving a Bullet

[InfiniteCoder]

Well, I recently started making a little top-down shooting game and I need a bit of help with the bullets!
I basically want them to fire in the direction of the mouse. Any help? Sorry for horribleness, I didn’t know how to ask question

[Longarmx]

So you want to move the bullet from the player to the mouse?

You basically want to use some trig to figure this out:

// These get the delta positions between the mouse and the player
int distX = Mouse.getX() - player.getX();
int distY = Mouse.getY() - player.getY();

// This determines the angle of the bullet using an inverse tangent function.
double angle = Math.atan2(distX, distY); // I should also note that this returns the angle in radians.

// These set the bullet's speed in the x and y axis, along with its rotation.
bullet.setDx(Math.sin(angle));
bullet.setDy(Math.cos(angle));
bullet.rotate(angle);

I hope this is what you were asking for. If you need any other help, just ask.

EDIT: Also, try this.
Also this.

[InfiniteCoder]

Ha ha thanks, But I figured it out by myself ;D
If anyone wants to know how, I basically did this:
(r is the player which is a circle)

double angle = Math.atan2((double)r.getCenterY() - (double)container.getInput().getMouseY(), (double)r.getCenterX() - (double)container.getInput().getMouseX()) - Math.PI;
bullets.add(new Bullet(new Circle(r.getCenterX(), r.getCenterY(), 5), angle));
r.setX((float)(r.getX()+Math.cos(b.getAngle())*b.getSpeed()));
r.setY((float)(r.getY()+Math.sin(b.getAngle())*b.getSpeed()));

[HeroesGraveDev]

I hate to quote myself*, but:

@HeroesGraveDev

Vector solution:

//Vector2f is any vector implementation with 2 floats.
//position, velocity and target are both Vector2f.
//Position and target are already defined

velocity = target.subtract(position);
velocity.normalize();

Non-Vector solution (still uses vector math):

//An x in the variable name is the xcoord. y is ycoord.
//all variables are floats/doubles
//p is position, d is velocity, t is target. Position and target are already defined.

dx = tx-px;
dy = ty-py;

float magnitude = Math.sqrt(dx*dx+dy*dy);

dx /= magnitude;
dy /= magnitude;

If you used the Search bar at the top left of the page, you perhaps would’ve found this yourself. :point:

(http://www.java-gaming.org/topics/rotating-bullet-bullet-shot-need-help/29482/msg/270690/view.html#msg270690)

*Disclaimer: I don’t hate to quote myself. ;D