Animation

[bvbjules13]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
run multiple animations at once

so basically i have an animation goign but i want to run another animation while this one is running so that hteir working at hte same time, is there a way i can do this? i cant seem to figure it out


Please specify what version of Turing you are using
4.1

[Panphobia]

Post your code on here, we need to see the problem first

[Insectoid]

Don't think of it as running multiple animations at the same time, but as one large animation. If that doesn't help, well, I'm trying to dig up a tutorial. I know we've got one somewhere.

[bvbjules13]

Turing:

View.Set ("graphics: 1100, 600") View.Set ("offscreenonly") var xx : int var yy : int procedure Snow     xx := Rand.Int (1, 1100)     yy := 599     loop         yy := yy - 1         Draw.Fill (1, 1, 16, 44)         Draw.FillOval (xx, yy, 2, 2, 0)         delay (5)         View.Update         Draw.FillOval (xx, yy, 2, 2, 16)     end loop end Snow

thats what i have atm, i need to run that a bunch of times; ik that to make snow you normally do it another way but i couldnt figure it out

[Panphobia]

i dont think you need a procedure, but this is what id do, make a loop with a random x than set yy to the same thing within that loop, then make another loop within that loop which exits when y = 0

[Insectoid]

code:

Draw.Fill (1, 1, 16, 44)         Draw.FillOval (xx, yy, 2, 2, 0)         delay (5)         View.Update         Draw.FillOval (xx, yy, 2, 2, 16)

There's a problem with your draw order, for one thing.

You need at least one X and Y variable per thing that moves (hint: arrays are your friend). For example, here's how you move 2 things at once.

code:

var ball1X : int := 10 var ball1Y : int := 10 var ball2X : int := 10 var ball2Y : int := 10 proc Animate     ball1X += 1 %move ball1 right     ball2Y += 1 %move ball2 up     Draw.FillOval (ball1X, ball1Y, 5, 5, blue)     Draw.FillOval (ball2X, ball2Y, 5, 5, red) end Animate loop     Animate end loop

This is 2 animations running at the same time. Or, it's 1 complicated animation.

To animate snow, you'll need hundreds of X and Y variables, but that's way too much code to write. Instead, use an array and a for loop.

[Panphobia]

ohh yea (facepalm) insectoid I did not account for hundreds of snow flakes

[bvbjules13]

oh ok thxs! that makes a lot more sense now; thank you!