Particle System help

[prateke]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
For my ICS2OI summative, i proposed to make a Particle System in turing. The program would consist of different particle types with different properties (heavy, light, flammable, etc.) and would be physics based (gravity, friction, etc.) I need a push in the right direction before i can get to start programming the particle system

What is the problem you are having?
I'm having a problem trying to make the boxes I draw with the mouse get affected gravity. I was able to make the boxes be drawn where the mouse is and when it is clicked. The problem i had is that the boxes/particles that are being drawn have a fixed x and y position, and therefore can't change them. Here is how i draw the boxes.

code:

var x, y, button : int var px, py, px2, py2 :int loop Mouse.Where (x, y, button) px := x py := y px2 := x +4 py2 := y +4  if button = 1 then drawfillbox (px, py, px2, py2, black) end if end loop

Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
I tried to put a variable for Gravity and subtract gravity from the y values of the boxes, but it didnt work as the co-ordinates of the boxes were fixed and couldnt be changed.


Please specify what version of Turing you are using
I'm using version 4.1.1

Thanks

[BigBear]

draw your boxes with variables and change those variables depending what is affecting the box.

so if you want gravity to pull the box down have x decrement every loop iteration (make the x -= FORCE_OF_GRAVITY)

then if the boxes make contact calculate friction and change the variables where you draw the box.

[prateke]

BigBear @ Sun May 16, 2010 9:38 am wrote:

draw your boxes with variables and change those variables depending what is affecting the box.

so if you want gravity to pull the box down have x decrement every loop iteration (make the x -= FORCE_OF_GRAVITY)...
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I've already tried doing that by setting a constant named Gravity and subtracted the constant from the 2 y values of the box...but the problem is the when the mouse is clicked and the variables for the x and y co-ordinates are set, they cant be changed for some reason, its as if they are NOT variables.

[BigBear]

If you take the y coordindates in the drawing call it will draw it at that spot

say yPosition is 10 and GRAVITY is 5, the y position will now be 5, a constant.

you need to continuesly subtract GRAVITY from the yPosition.

[prateke]

BigBear @ Sun May 16, 2010 10:23 am wrote:

If you take the y coordindates in the drawing call it will draw it at that spot

say yPosition is 10 and GRAVITY is 5, the y position will now be 5, a constant.

you need to continuesly subtract GRAVITY from the yPosition.

I tried doing what you said, but it doesnt seem to work

code:

var x, y, button, px, py, px2, py2 : int const Gravity : int := 3 loop Mouse.Where (x, y, button) px := x py := y px2 := x+2 py2 := y+2 py -= Gravity py2 -= Gravity if button = 1 then  drawfillbox (px, py, px2, py2, black) end if end loop

[prateke]

Im guessing that i need to have a array for the boxes, but im not sure of how to use that

[BigBear]

Turing:

var x, y, button, px, py, px2, py2 : int const Gravity : int := 3 loop     Mouse.Where (x, y, button)     px := x     py := y     px2 := x + 2     py2 := y + 2     py -= Gravity     py2 -= Gravity     if button = 1 then         drawfillbox (px, py, px2, py2, black)     end if end loop

you get x and y variables based on where the mouse is, then you make modifications to those variables and draw a box, but next loop iteration you set px := x (where the mouse is) and py := y (where the mouse is) so it never loops and lets gravity influence is since you reset it back to where the mouse is

try making a loop to get the mouse position then a loop to draw the box then a loop around the whole thing