Some newb lua questions.
I want give the projectile angular velocity but clockwise or counter clockwise depending what side the actor faces.
I.e. when the actor with the gun looks to the left the projectile he just shot will be given self.AngularVel = -10 and self.AngularVel = 10 when facing right while he shot it.
Basicly it's for a gun that shoots a big ball that i want to give angular velocity so it will roll forward , away from the actor , thus i need to know were he's looking at.

When an actor has HFlipped true, they're looking left. Or right. Not entirely sure.
It's HFlipped you want to look at anyways.

Just make it check the direction it has velocity in then give it rotation in that direction.

This. In the Create function, look for the actor and do

Then fiddle with the sign of the AngularVel ini the .ini if it's going the other way.

oke , so i have to make it get the actor that shoots it , like the homing missle does for checking for team , sorta , then pass that actor onto actor.HFlipped and mod the ini to make the projectile rotate as if the actor was HFlipped = false right ? , i'm familliar with programming just not with lua

Yeah. There's a few different methods of getting the closest actor, there's a thread about Lua snippets here somewhere...
You can use the homing missile one if you want, it's right there.

EDIT: Tricks thread

i can't quite get it to work. this is the script i have so far. also it's not getting its mass increased so i think this is a problem with syntax


using code tags is not exaclty perfect , tabs especially so ill add it as attachment

Tabs don't matter for Lua scripts, but they make them human-readable.

You're missing an end at the, well, end of the script.

ya , i still need to get used to those end's
actually i ment the way the Code tags show your lua code is not as it is written when i copypasted it.

I agree with with Lizard here. Using HFlipped is perfect when spawning objects in an actors code but since you are working with a projectile from a gun using HFlipped just makes things more complicated. Try this instead: