Question

I have this in the initialization of a bullet object:

    x = startX;
    y = startY;
    double distance = Math.sqrt(((endX - x) ^ 2) + ((endY - y) ^ 2));
    speedX = (6 * (endX - x)) / distance;
    speedY = (6 * (endY - y)) / distance;

It goes to where I touch on the screen, but the further away I touch, the faster it goes. This works fine on paper, I’ve tried it with different lengths and it should work, but bullets need to move 6 pixels on the line from the player to the point touched every step. And its update method moves of course. But why do bullets move at different speeds?

Answer 1

If I remember my Java operators…

Replace

double distance = Math.sqrt(((endX - x) ^ 2) + ((endY - y) ^ 2));

with

double distance = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(endX - x, 2) + Math.pow(endY - y, 2));