Is this a good way to find the angle of the mouse to a set position in pygame

Question

I am trying to figure out trigonometry so i can use it in some projects, and this part of it in particular seems like it would help a lot in making games. Are there any other/ better methods to do this?

https://sololearn.com/compiler-playground/cgR23FqZuYtF/?ref=app

Answer 1

At a quick glance, that looks normal. In case it’s what you were asking, yes, trigonometry is what you need here. One thing I noticed he doesn’t deal with is that some of the trigonometry functions will trim off increments of either 90 or 180° if I remember right, so you have to do some checking as to if any axes are negative to add those back in. I don’t remember which ones, but his program will show you the angle changing in real time, so you can figure it out from that.