What we'll add now is the code that tells the bullet what the ship's angle is so that it can perform some basic trigonometry and give it the appropriate x and y velocities that will move it across the screen. Flash 5 has allowed us clumsy typers to eliminate that verbosity from our daily usage. We can access the properties of a movie clip directly using the property's name, as long as it's preceded by an underscore. And yet hellish. Because the trig functions in Flash use radians, not degrees.
Degrees are nice.
They describe a circle with numbers that go from 0 to 360. By contrast, radians are ugly. Yes, that pi. And lo, this works for any angle. Divide it by 180 and multiply it by pi.