Gotta Question

[Dazzle]

hello i have aslight problem and i was wondering if you could help its a 2d rpg and wen i move a space it moves a whole tile and i was wondering if there was a way to smooth out the movement... i looked it up on google and i found a couple but i dont understand them :/

[Insectoid]

Use an animation procedure. Instead of just jumping the character from tile 1 to tile 2 when a key is pressed, activate an animation to move the character across tiles pixel by pixel.

[Dazzle]

Could you possible give me an example?

[Tony]

code:

for i: 1..100 by 1    Draw.FillOval(i,100,10,10,red)    delay(100)    cls end for

vs.

code:

for i: 1..100 by 10    Draw.FillOval(i,100,10,10,red)    delay(100)    cls end for

[Dazzle]

Im sorry i do not understand that lol
umm heres an example of what im using

this is code for the picture
[code]
if tiles (x, y) = 1 then
Pic.Draw (tree, x * 32, y * 32,0)
[code]

and this is how it moves

[code]
if key ('a') and tiles (px - 1, py) = 1 then
px-= 1 Pic.Draw (wizard3 ,px * 32, py * 32,0)
View.Update
end if
[code]

But i cant figure out how to make it smooth

[Tony]

instead of taking one big step (32 pixels), take two smaller steps (16 pixels each).

[Dazzle]

but how would i do that?? :O

[Tony]

What have you tried so far? You could refer to the examples above, when trying to come up with a design.

[Dazzle]

no, i am just wondering how i could move at that speed wen i try to change the speed to under 1 is just gives me and errror..?? but how do i move at pixels

[Tony]

what kind of an error?

[Dazzle]

Assigned Value Is the Wrong Type.

[Tony]

Turing is strongly typed, so the type of variable and the values assigned to it must match up.

code:

var count : int := "some text" put count

Here it's not at all clear what integer value a text is suppost to represent, so an error is thrown. It works the same way for real values and integers. To make it clear to the compiler that you know what you are doing, you'd have to build in your conversions yourself, such as rounding the numbers the way that you want.

[Dazzle]

i am a beginner .. and i dont understand everything that poeple are say would you like me to put the code that im using in here?

[DemonWasp]

You should generally paste the relevant code whenever it changes. I'll explain what Tony is saying though:

In short, you're trying to put a square peg into a round hole. When you make a variable have type "int", it can only hold "integer" values, such as 1, 2, 3, -17, etc. It can't hold values like 0.5 or 3/4 (which are called "real" numbers, or "floating point" in computers).

Turing is trying to tell you this. The assigned value of 0.5 or whatever is the wrong type for the variable's type, which is integer. If you need to represent fractional numbers, then you should use the type real (commonly called "float" or "double" in other languages.

[Dazzle]

ok.. i kinda get it so it would be like this??

var number : int :=float(5)

?