The sprite's movement direction in degrees.
The direction angle is a number from -180 to 180, 0 is to the right, clockwise increasing.
The velocity of the sprite, its speed and direction, can be set in many ways:
sprite.x
and sprite.y
properties within the draw()
functionsprite.velocityX
and sprite.velocityY
propertiessprite.setVelocity()
or sprite.setSpeedAndDirection()
Move a sprite in a circle.
// Move a sprite in a circle. var sprite = createSprite(200, 100); function draw() { background("white"); drawSprites(); sprite.setSpeedAndDirection(2,sprite.getDirection()+1); console.log(sprite.getDirection()); }
sprite.getDirection()
The direction angle of the sprite in degrees.
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