What is the usage of ToDeg and ToRad?

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#1

How are ToDeg and ToRad supposed to be used?

Basically, angle in degrees start from 0, goes to 180, then it jumps to -180 and go all the way up to 0

Angle in Radians, start from 0 to 360 and it loops.

Using ToDeg(270) wont convert it to -90, it converts it to 15469.46… (something near that)

So, I want to know what is the utility of ToDeg and ToRad? What are the occasions where they should be used?

Is there really a event where we can use a number over or equal to 361 as angle?

Are these expressions actually working as intended?

#2

They convert between degrees and radians. Some math functions like sin() and cos() expect the value to be in radians. I don’t know how they work only that they convert between the 2 formats.

This might help. I plan to read it more myself.

https://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-guide-to-angles-degrees-and-radians/

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#3

I’ve been using some ToRad in a project.
I have my player object and a crosshair a certain distance away. ToRad comes in handy to get the X and Y coordinates to keep the crosshair positioned based on the angle of where the player is facing and the distance that’s been set.

The formula I’m using goes like this:
Player.X() + (cos(ToRad(Player.Angle()))) * ([distance variable]))
Player.Y() + (sin(ToRad(Player.Angle()))) * ([distance variable])

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#4

I’m using it in a similar way.

FYI: getXFromAngleAndDistance() and getYFromAngleAndDistance() does the same thing but in my case it’s not as flexible.