hurt()
 

Is there any way, while using this function, I can make the player recoil in the direction I want?

I've tried changing player.hurtdx/dy but apparently they're read only.

maybe have a complete movement system ? so it would be easier.

or maybe something like

function onCreated() {
this.newdir=player.dir
}

then hurt()
this.newdir = (number);

idk xD

Nah, I don't want to do a complete movement system for a simple project. And it isn't effected by direction, but by delta.

Which way do you want to recoil? Unless I've never paid attention to it, the sprites recoil in the opposite direction they're facing. The "physics" seem right to me.

No, the recoil away from the direction they were hit... in the case of hurt(), since they weren't hit by someone else, there is no default recoil direction... which is what I want to define.

Oh, yeah. That would make sense.

Have you tried hitplayer(index, halfhearts, fromx, fromy)?
hitplayer(0, 1, 45, 50); seems to recoil the player down to the left, diagonally.

That's for hitting other players. I just want to hit the player themselves, after a hit from a projectile... I could probably rig it, but I don't want to run an extra loop if I don't have to.

Using an index of 0, I was able to hit myself.

EDIT: Actually, using an index other than 0 produces as access violation (Vista). Bug, perhaps?

Use hitplayer() with player.index. Worked for me last time I had the exact same problem as yours.

Edit: Now that I think about it, I looked for that in a pretty old piece of code, and somehow player.index doesn't make sense to me. Might just be 0...

Ya, hitplayer with 0 did work, thanks for the help :)