I need to add a drag feel to my rotation. Meaning, when I rotate my player using the Left Thumbstick, it don't want it to be instant. I want it to like slowly go towards that direction... How would I go about doing that?

Here is what I have so far:

I could be wrong but I believe that if-statement will always return true..

Hold a variable for the rotation speed and increase it with the thumbstick input:
You'll need to adjust for max and min speed, but you get the idea.

Hmm, Maybe I didn't make my self clear enough; let me show you a video on the type of movement I wish to achieve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_7AKnkBcso

This video is of Geometry Wars 2, the movement is exactly like I want to achieve. Instead of the Player Sprite instant turning to the position of the Thumbstick, I like it to slowly to the position of the Thumbstick.

With the following code:


What this did was just continuously rotate the object without stopping at the position of the thumbstick.

Ah that's more clear then your first post :P

I believe this should work:
- You need a static rotation speed.
- Calculate the rotaiton of your thumbstick
- Check if it would be shorter to rotate your ship left or right to reach the rotation of your thumbstick
- Add/Substract the rotation speed dependant of which side you're rotating.
- If the ship rotation passes the thumbstick rotation simply assign the thumbstick rotation to the ship rotation.


P.s.

Your if statement still doesn't feel right.. I'll explain:

if ((stick.X >= 0 || stick.X <= 0) || (stick.Y >= 0 || stick.Y <= 0))

you're checking if stick.X is higher or equal to 0 OR if stick.X is lower or equal to 0. This actually means you're checking if stick.X has ANY value, which it will always have. You do the same for stick.Y

soo since stick.X will have a value as long as it exists, this statement will always return true.

Thank You. I figured it would be something like that. I'll post back with my results later.

First, rotSpeed would need to be outside the main loop so the speed can accumulate. This was intended to add some "acceleration" to the turning, but it won't do what you want with GeoWars-style movement.

To get that style of movement, you need to hold the current rotation, and the destination rotation. You then decide which way is shorter to turn, and add to or decrease the current rotation value until it is equal to the destination rotation value. This way it will slowly rotate towards the destination rotation.

to calculate which side is shorter you could do something like this