Shoot stuff like in Monkey Flight?

In the game Monkey Flight you can shoot away an Monkey by aiming with your finger anywhere on the screen and there is a progressbar that will determine the strength/force to put into the shooting of the monkey.

Then the monkey just bounces around until the speed goes away or the monkey crashes with a stone or mud.

What I am interesting in solving in Corona now is the way you shoot the monkey. It is something like the shooting in the simple pool demo but here you dont have 360 degree shooting range but 180 degree and the force it not determined by the distance between the target image and the end where the touch ends.

Any one has any ideas? [import]uid: 22737 topic_id: 6089 reply_id: 306089[/import]

I’d try for a combination of physics and trigonometry.

http://developer.anscamobile.com/content/game-edition-physics-bodies#body:applyLinearImpulse
http://developer.anscamobile.com/content/math-0 [import]uid: 5652 topic_id: 6089 reply_id: 21139[/import]

Ok thanks I will try that and if I make it I will post the code here [import]uid: 22737 topic_id: 6089 reply_id: 21151[/import]