Car game help: Moving forward relative to the direction changes.

[Guest]

Hey,

Just wondering how I can determine what coordinates my car needs to when I press up on my keyboard relative to the directions the car steers to.

Basically, when I steering the car I want it to still go forward after I've steered.

Here's the function I have prepared already:

public function actions(event:Event):void {



if (upKeyDown) {








}



if (rightKeyDown) {




this.rotation+=steering;



}



if (leftKeyDown) {




this.rotation-=steering;



}


}

[moccamaximum]

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[Guest]

I've already been to that website, my problem was I don't understand where those variables were being used on the car x and y coordinates. I can only see them being set and not used. Care to explain how they are being used on the car object?

Thanks for the reply.

[moccamaximum · Accepted solution]

Look for the line where its says:

velocityX = Math.sin (this.rotation * Math.PI / 180) * speed;

this velocityX (and velocityY) is used in the enter_frame function to set the cars position on stage