how do I flip a sprite based on the mouse's position relative to the player?

[SamuraiDan]

I have a gun that aims correctly, but when I aim to the left of my player it just flips upside down and looks wrong. I have a second sprite that flips it so the orientation is correct, but I can't find any way to check whether the mouse is to the left or right of the player to change the frame with. a little help, please?

if it helps, I'm aiming the gun by setting the angle equal to a vector that's set to xmouse and ymouse.

[SamuraiDan]

figured it out almost by pure accident. anyway, I have an aiming reticle that follows my mouse and I check the position of the reticle itself. if it's greater than the x position of player I set the gun to the "facing right" frame, and if it's less than the player's x position -1 I set the frame to the "facing left" frame. I guess that reticle was the piece of the puzzle I was missing, since I can't track the mouse's position directly I had to add an object that could track it for me.

[drgonzo42]

Maybe late but I want to make clear that you CAN track your mouse position. You just have to use "Compare two general values" from the "Special" conditions.

* XMouse > X( "Player" )

* XMouse < X( "Player" )

[SamuraiDan]

wow, maybe late is right. this is from a year ago! I don't know if that feature even existed when I made this question. thanks, though.

[Linky]

Originally posted by SamuraiDan:

wow, maybe late is right. this is from a year ago! I don't know if that feature even existed when I made this question. thanks, though.

This existed since Klik and Play which released in the 90's