Whats the best way to have te player turn smoothly towards a target (that i clicked on) and move to it?

this is the code i have inside a loop :

Code:

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	if(vec_dist(my.x,new_pos)>50)
	{my_speed2.x=4;
		vec_set(temp,vector(new_pos.x,new_pos.y,my.z));
		vec_sub(temp,my.x);
		vec_to_angle(my.pan,temp);
		
		ent_move(my_speed2,nullvector);
	}

 

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it turns the player to the target immediately instead of in incrememnts.

however, i did try to set the vec to angle pan to another variable ad then if my pan as greater than the target pan it would rotate left an incrememnt and vice versa. but it looks clunky and sometimes the player will miss the target and go turn back and forth.

please help,
Alex

http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/785653/an/0/page/3#Post785653
this may help

haha i tried that, but as i said before te player misses te target if its too close. how ever, i could write the varying speed as a function of distance. lets see how that goes!

here we go:
Code:

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while(vec_dist(new_pos,my.x)>20)
{
...
vec_set(temp,vector(new_pos.x,new_pos.y,my.z));

vec_sub(temp,my.x);

vec_to_angle(new_pan.pan,temp);// new_pan.pan is the value holder

my.pan+=(new_pan.pan-my.pan)/20 //"20" is te slow down factor. set it to 1 and the player will turn towards the target immediately. 
...
}

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dont know if you means this but you cn try it

Code:

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var rotate;
var speed =2;
if(vec_dist(my.x,new_pos)>50)
	{my_speed2.x=4;
		vec_set(temp,vector(new_pos.x,new_pos.y,my.z));
		vec_sub(temp,my.x);
		vec_to_angle(rotate,temp);
		my.pan = (rotate / rotate)*speed*time_step;
		ent_move(my_speed2,nullvector);
	}

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rotate/rotate? doesnt that give u one?