need help with Gamemaker pro 8

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I'm making a 2d third person shooter. I want a set of crosshairs, that will stay in front of the player controlled character about 30 pixels away wherever it is facing, corresponding to arrow key presses. I cannot work out the correct code for this. I have tried using Cartesian coordinates but the gunsight is just drifting off the screen and not stopping.

If anyone is familiar with GML, I would be incredibly grateful.

Didnt know they had game maker software.

How does that work?

What kind of things can you design with it.

Not interested in 'action'- not into looking through crosshairs and being a soldier shooting bad guys.

More into general and admiralship- units or warships maneuvering across a big map.

If you have the pro version, you can make almost anything.

Its a cheap engine so while its capable of 3d it isn't the best. Certainly not unless you learn how to program. My main grievance is that while the drag n drop facility significantly reduces the barrier to entry, its impossible to do much without knowing GML. Unfortunately GML is a proprietory language so its often awkward to find tutorials and source code.