Hey everyone, I need some help with this game i'm making . So it's a game where you character is shooting up through the sky (vertically), and I need to, 1. when the character presses right, to go right AND for the sprite to rotate to the right as well. (same with left). 2. when the character is going right and releases the right key, to slow down and eventually stop (friction, I guess?) and rotate back to the left. 3. the character angle/direction should be equivalent with the amount of horizontal speed the character is going. (for example, if the character is barely moving to the right, the sprite should not be FULLY turned over at 90 degrees.) I'm very sorry if I am asking for a lot, but I've been working with this game forever, and I just can't seem to get any of this working correctly. Any help will be greatly appreciated and you will be given credit.

There's two things you can do to rotate: -Make a rotate sprite or -get GM Pro then use image_angle to rotate For smooth motion step event: [code] //****************** //Keyboard checks if keyboard_check(vk_right) hspeed += anything if keyboard_check(vk_left) hspeed -= anything //****************** //Friction (Used from my Mario) hspeed = (abs(hspeed)-fric)*sign(hspeed) //One line!!! //****************** //Max hspeed if hspeed > maxspeed hspeed = maxspeed if hspeed < maxspeed*-1 hspeed = maxspeed*-1 [/code] But I don't know about the rotating. You have to put the origin of the sprite to the center.

The game doesn't know what "fric" is. :( Also, I assumed that I initialize the maxspeed varible in the create event to whatever I want it to be. This is correct, no?

fric = friction but I think friction goes too fast for slowing down. It's a variablee that should be put in the create event. You're right about the maxspeed, it's a variable. Use this update: [code] //****************** //Keyboard checks if keyboard_check(vk_right) hspeed += anything if keyboard_check(vk_left) hspeed -= anything //****************** //Friction (Used from my Mario) hspeed = (abs(hspeed)-fric)*sign(hspeed) if hspeed = 0 fric = anything else fric = 0 //****************** //Max hspeed if hspeed > maxspeed hspeed = maxspeed if hspeed < maxspeed*-1 hspeed = maxspeed*-1 [/code]

Now the character moves left and right without any acceleration/friction.

How big are your variables? Try this then. [code] //****************** //Keyboard checks if keyboard_check(vk_right) and !keyboard_check(vk_left) { hspeed += anything movepress = 1 } else if keyboard_check(vk_left) and !keyboard_check(vk_right) { hspeed += -anything movepress = 1 } else movepress = 0 //****************** //Friction if movepress = 0 friction = anything between 0 and 1 else friction = 0 //****************** //Max hspeed if hspeed > maxspeed hspeed = maxspeed if hspeed < maxspeed*-1 hspeed = maxspeed*-1 [/code]

Ugh... it still does the same thing. So that code goes in the step event, right? and the only variables that go in the create event are maxspeed and movepress, right? Also, I set maxspeed=5 and movepress=0 Is this right?

It works fine. Did you change the frame rate to 60?

If by that you mean room speed then yes