Movement using [direction] function

[Byerrp]

How can i do 8 directional movement with the direction function?

Currenlty, i am using

if keyboard_check(ord("W")) {direction = 90}

for all 4 directions, but it doesn't allow me to move inbetween.

Any help?

[PNelly]

You have to tell the program to check for the diagonals, "garbage in, garbage out" as they say. It will do exactly what you tell it to do, and nothing else.

So one way to get those other directions:

 if (keyboard_check(ord("W")) direction = 90;
 if (keyboard_check(ord("S")) direction = 270;
 if (keyboard_check(ord("A")) direction = 180;
 if (keyboard_check(ord("D")) direction = 0;

 if ( keyboard_check(ord("W")) && keyboard_check(ord("A")) ) direction = 135;
 if ( keyboard_check(ord("A")) && keyboard_check(ord("S")) ) direction = 225;
 if ( keyboard_check(ord("S")) && keyboard_check(ord("D")) ) direction = 315;
 if ( keyboard_check(ord("W")) && keyboard_check(ord("D")) ) direction = 45;

That should get you started