Help With Dance Dance Rev.

[Uber Tankz]

Okay, a while back I posted that I was going to try somthing else, somthing easier, than DDR. Well I lied. I wanna keep doing it but now I need some more help... The background I have just writes over everything. How do I turn and animated background into a sprite...What would I use?

[Clayton]

what kind of background are you using? are you using Pic.Draw? plz post a more detailed explanation of your problem, my suggestion would be to use Pic.Draw, if you arent sure how check the Turing Walkthrough, ill give you the example however that you should use in your program:

Turing:

var myPic:int:=Pic.FileNew("whatever.jpg") Pic.Draw(myPic,x,y,picUnderMerge)

this draws your pic underneath everything else on the screen try it and see if it works

[Guest]

How are you going to do a DDR? Using parallel get?

[Uber Tankz]

This is what im gunna use

code:

const startValue := 30 const maxValue := 70 const incrementAmount := 0.1 const maxDist := 700 procedure DrawLine (x, y : real, angle : real, dist : real, inc : real)     colour (yellow)     Draw.ThickLine (round (x), round (y), round (x + cosd (angle) * dist), round (y + sind (angle) * dist), 1, black)     if dist > maxDist then         return     end if     DrawLine (round (x + cosd (angle) * dist), round (y + sind (angle) * dist), angle + inc, dist + 1, inc) end DrawLine View.Set ('graphics:700,500') View.Set ('offscreenonly') View.Set ('nobuttonbar') View.Set ('position:centre;centre') cls var a : real := startValue loop Text.ColourBack (Rand.Int (32,35))     a += incrementAmount     if a > maxValue then         a := startValue     end if     DrawLine (maxx div 2, maxy div 2, 0, 0, a)     View.Update     Time.DelaySinceLast (50)     cls end loop

[Uber Tankz]

OK, since its DDR there has to be music right? well i tried to use teh Music.PlayFile thinger but the program didnt continue until thr music was over... is there any way i can make it so that teh music plays and teh program runs?

[Uber Tankz]

Sorry about all the bad spelling mistakes...

[Guest]

Instead of using Music.PlayFile, use Music.PlayFileReturn. It's basically the same thing as Music.PlayFile in a process =)

[Uber Tankz]

aight coo', ill try that

[BenLi]

I think Music.PlayFileLoop will also play it while the program is running

[Uber Tankz]

thanks, i think ill use that instead of the process, seems better. but does anyone know how to do the sprite thing? does anyone have suggestions?

[Tony]

you just need an ordered draw logic

code:

loop draw_background draw_middleground draw_topcontent View.Update cls end loop

Where middleground would be your arrows and topcontent are things like score and what not. Just figure out your layers.

if you want your background to animate, have a procedure keep track of a frame number, and have it increment each time the procedure is called. You'd probably need to store the value somewhere outside of the procedure itself though.

[Uber Tankz]

um, sorry i didnt really catch that, due to me sucking. But is there a page you could direct me to or somthing in the turing reference that could help me more?

[Tony]

The Turing Walkthrough generally helps with "sucking"

If it doesn't, then you'd have to be more specific

[Uber Tankz]

kay thanks, i actually learnt a lot form the walkthrough. i hope not to be asking so many questions now.