----------------------------------- colinlamm Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:31 pm Help with animating snow ----------------------------------- What is it you are trying to achieve? Im trying to make it so that when my box floats and stops my snow is still animating. What is the problem you are having? i cant seem to make my snow keep moving after the box floats Describe what you have tried to solve this problem i tried putting the snow code in a loop but it always freezes up the whole thing. Post any relevant code (You may choose to attach the file instead of posting the code if it is too long) setscreen ("graphics:800;600") View.Set ("offscreenonly") var Box_y, Box_y2, Box_x, Box_x2 : int %Moving the ipod Variables Box_y := 10 Box_y2 := 40 Box_x := 10 Box_x2 := 40 %Snowflake Animation const FlakesFalling := 400 var FlakeX : array 1 .. FlakesFalling of int var FlakeY : array 1 .. FlakesFalling of int for Flake : 1 .. FlakesFalling FlakeX (Flake) := Rand.Int (0, maxx) FlakeY (Flake) := Rand.Int (0, maxy) end for loop Draw.FillBox (0, 200, 800, 600, 105) %Blue Sky Background Draw.FillBox (0, 0, maxx, 199, 29) %Ground Background %Initials drawbox (785, 15, 745, 75, black) %second initial drawbox (730, 15, 690, 75, black) %first initial drawline (755, 20, 775, 20, black) %Second initial drawline (755, 20, 755, 70, black) %Second initial drawarc (715, 45, 20, 23, 75, 280, black) %First initial %House Draw.FillBox (20, 150, 250, 350, 111) %House Square shape var x1 : array 1 .. 3 of int := init (20, 250, 140) %House Roof var y1 : array 1 .. 3 of int := init (350, 350, 450) %House Roof Draw.FillPolygon (x1, y1, 3, 17) %Drawing Roof %Christmas Tree: var x : array 1 .. 16 of int := init (599, 599, 641, 641, 714, 668, 695, 643, 671, 623, 573, 605, 547, 599, 527, 598) var y : array 1 .. 16 of int := init (203, 156, 156, 202, 202, 248, 248, 298, 298, 346, 299, 299, 244, 244, 200, 203) Draw.FillPolygon (x, y, 16, green) % This polygon was created using Gurjant Kalsi's Polygon Generator Draw.FillBox (650, 100, 750, 175, brightred) %Presents Draw.ThickLine (700, 100, 700, 175, 5, brightgreen) %Presents Draw.ThickLine (650, 140, 750, 140, 5, brightgreen) %Presents Draw.FillBox (500, 100, 600, 175, brightgreen) %Presents Draw.ThickLine (500, 140, 600, 140, 5, brightred) %Presents Draw.ThickLine (550, 100, 550, 175, 5, brightred) %Presents for Flake : 1 .. FlakesFalling %Drop The Flake FlakeY (Flake) -= Rand.Int (1, 5) %flakeX (flake) += Rand.Int (-1, 1) if FlakeY (Flake) < 0 then FlakeY (Flake) := maxy FlakeY (Flake) := Rand.Int (0, maxx) end if Draw.FillOval (FlakeX (Flake), FlakeY (Flake), 1, 1, white) end for %Moving the Ipod Touch upwards exit when Box_y = 300 Draw.FillBox (380, Box_y, 400, Box_y2, black) %Ipod Touch Draw.FillBox (350, 10, 450, 100, 90) Box_y := Box_y + 10 Box_y2 := Box_y2 + 10 View.Update delay (50) end loop Please specify what version of Turing you are using 4.1 ----------------------------------- Linkxgl Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:18 pm RE:Help with animating snow ----------------------------------- It'll be easier to read your code if you wrap it around put "Hello World" without: put "Hello World" I don't understand the problem? Your snow is in a loop, if it wasn't it wouldn't be moving in the beginning of the script... Also, when the box moves, the snow is still falling, but in your script where it says: exit when Box_y = 300 When the box gets to 300 pixels on the y-axis on the screen, the loop exits, and the snow stops falling... All I did was comment out that exit and the snow kept falling, and the box kept flying up.. So what's the problem? ----------------------------------- colinlamm Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:36 pm Re: Help with animating snow ----------------------------------- Umm the main problem was that i wanted the box to stop at 300 exit when Box_y = 300 so when i did that, it also stops the snow from moving. How do i make it so that it stops the box, and the snow keeps continuing? o_O ----------------------------------- Raknarg Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:49 am RE:Help with animating snow ----------------------------------- Do exactly what you said. Write the code so that it only animates one thing instead of two. ----------------------------------- Linkxgl Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:22 am RE:Help with animating snow ----------------------------------- Alright, then just have an if statement before the part where you move the box saying, "as long as the box_y variable is less than 300, do the following" So something like this? if variable < 300 then %move box end if Using exit when, exits the loop you're current in. You want to keep the loop running since you need the know to keep falling, so use an if statement to check whether the box is over 300 pixels on the y, and when the if statement is false, it will stop moving the box! Edit Alright, so I just tried it, and it works perfect, I literally just added two lines of code, and erased one. The one that I erased was already mentioned, so you should be fine now! ----------------------------------- Raknarg Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:07 pm RE:Help with animating snow ----------------------------------- Basically what you were doing was something like this: loop animate_box animate_snow if box is done animation then exit end if end loop You can do that if you want to. Then what you do is make a new loop and include everything but the animating box. What Linkxgl works fine as well, but if you're going to be animating morethings, it may be best to just separate them into different loops to avoid having to use a rediculous amount of counters and such. ----------------------------------- colinlamm Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:44 pm Re: Help with animating snow ----------------------------------- Oh i see i kind of understand it now, thanks alot guys! It actually works! Thanks A LOT. ----------------------------------- chipanpriest Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:45 pm Re: Help with animating snow ----------------------------------- I super easy to fix this would be to %get rid of "exit when Box_y = 300" %Then put this instead if Box_y >= 300 then Box_y := 300 Box_y2 := 330 end if