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I'm trying to calculate the angular direction of a projectile, knowing it's X and Y velocity I can find the magnitude of its movement, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around getting the angular direction (in radians) that it is moving...

I assume there is a tan or a sin involved, but I'm a bit clueless otherwise...

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    \$\begingroup\$ As a side note ... why? Most calculations for a game, including rotations by the same angle, you can do without touching trigonometric functions. \$\endgroup\$
    – Martin Sojka
    Commented Sep 15, 2011 at 18:14

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read the following page you have to use atan2 : http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_atan.asp

so angle = atan2 (vy,vx); and speed = sqrt(vy*vy + vx * vx)

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Nothing wrong with the W3Schools page, but just to let you know: W3Fools.com \$\endgroup\$
    – Some Guy
    Commented Nov 23, 2011 at 9:39
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angle = tan_inverse(VelocityY/VelocityX)

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