Cocos Creator face to pointer - pointers

i am struggling with angles in cocos creator.
I am trying to make my sprite facing my mouse when i am moving it. But i cant make it at all.
Image shows what i want to accomplish
I wanna from this gun to move and face the mouse, just like crosshair.
Ive done some coding, and this is what i have for now:
var canvas = cc.find('Canvas');
canvas.on('touchmove',function(event){
var pos = this.node.getPosition();
var ang = pos.angle(event.getLocation());
var degr = cc.misc.radiansToDegrees(ang);
this.node.setRotation(degr);
console.log(degr);
},this);
This is in onLoad function and connected to my gun sprite.

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new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: loader.load('resources/images/flower-1.jpg')}),
new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: loader.load('resources/images/flower-2.jpg')}),
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I'm using ArcRotateCamera, when I click on mesh, I have to focus camera on
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1st - what you are doing is executing a code action after a click, instead of simply running the code in the callback after a pick has occurred. You are registering a pick action (technically user click) on right on the first frame, but only if the mouse was found in the right location at the right moment. My guess is that it didn't work every time (unless you scene is covered with meshes :-) )
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There are a few ways to solve this. The first is this:
scene.onPointerDown = function(evt, pickInfo) {
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camera.focusOn([pickInfo.pickedMesh], true);
}
}
The ArcRotate camera provides focusOn function that focuses on a group of meshes, while fixing the orientation of the camera. this is very helpful. You can see a demo here:
https://playground.babylonjs.com/#A1210C#51
Another solution would be to use the setTarget function:
https://playground.babylonjs.com/#A1210C#52
Which works a bit differently (notice the orientation change of the camera).
Another thing - use the pointer events integrated in Babylon, as they are saving you the extra call for a scene pick. pointer down is executed with the pickinfo integrated in the function, so you can get the picking info of the current pointer down / up / move each frame.
**** EDIT ****
After a new comment - since you want to animate the values, all you need to do is store the current values, calculate the new ones, and animate the values using the internal animation system (documentation here - https://doc.babylonjs.com/babylon101/animations#basic-animation) . There are many ways to achieve this, I took an old function and modernized it :-)
Here is the demo - https://playground.babylonjs.com/#A1210C#53

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I've got an issue that I simply can't figure out; probably because I don't have the correct knowledge.
I have a TMX map made in Tiled. The Map is bigger than the screen size (tiles are 32x32pixels and there are 100x100 tiles).
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To illustrate the problem I'm seeing on screen when I swipe the screen using the code above:
It seems that if I touch the center of the screen, the bottom left corner of the map will jump to that touched coordinate and will move with my touch until my touch is lifted.
The Map's bottom left corner will always move to where I begin my touch.
Also while the map is being moved, it flashes like crazy and if moved excessively, disappears entirely.
Thanks again All, much appreciated.
Best and Kind Regards,
hiro
I found the solution to the problem.
There's a very bright person in the Cocos2D community who has written a controller to not only pan around organically, but zoom in and out.
Link to Controller, example and preview movie
You wont need to write your touchBegan, Moved and End methods; this Controller does it all for you.
My init
self.theMap = [CCTMXTiledMap tiledMapWithTMXFile: #"city_map.tmx"];
self.bgLayer = [theMap layerNamed:#"bg"];
// boundingRect is the area you wish to pan around
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theMap.anchorPoint = ccp(0,0);
[self addChild: theMap z: -1];
// _controller is declared in the #interface as an object of CCPanZoomController
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_controller.zoomOutLimit = _controller.optimalZoomOutLimit;
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