Accelerometer - Reversed Gravity When Upside Down?

rainwaterstudiosrainwaterstudios Member Posts: 198
in Working with GS (Mac)

I'm having a problem with using the Accelerometer; When the device orientation is is left landscape mode, the Accelerometer works normally (i.e. tilt the device to the left and it accelerates left), but if I rotate the device 180 degrees (making the device orientation right landscape) the actors accelerate in the direction opposite to the way the device is tilted...
Has anyone dealt with this before or have a fix? @Socks @Guru

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  • RThurmanRThurman Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 2,880

    @rainwaterstudios -- you can determine which way is 'down' by using the formula:
    vectorToAngle(game.Accelerometer.X,game.Accelerometer.Y)

  • rainwaterstudiosrainwaterstudios Member Posts: 198

    @RThurman said:
    @rainwaterstudios -- you can determine which way is 'down' by using the formula:
    vectorToAngle(game.Accelerometer.X,game.Accelerometer.Y)

    Thanks for the tip, could you elaborate? Where would the vectorToAngle function be implemented?

  • RThurmanRThurman Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 2,880

    @rainwaterstudios said:

    Thanks for the tip, could you elaborate? Where would the vectorToAngle function be implemented?

    I guess I would need to know more about what you are trying to do.

    You can also test for device orientation:
    game.Screen.Device Orientation

    I believe it returns 1,2,3, or 4 for the different orientations.

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