How do you measure distance?

pjnolen

For a basic example, if an object moves from one marked location to another, how would measure and display that distance?

pjnolen

the cannon template is a good example. If you removed all the walls and such where the ball lands, is there a way to measure how far the cannonball was fired from the cannon to the point where it would hit the ground?

Photics

You might be interest in The Unofficial GameSalad Textbook, as it has a great math section. It explains how the Pythagorean Theorem applies to GameSalad and how the Magnitude function can be used to calculate distance between two actors / locations.

Basically, the game is on a grid. So... if you know the X & Y locations of both points, you can use A²+B²=C² to figure out the distance. Magnitude makes this easier.