Trigular Motion

[TheZsterBunny]

So I'm putting off doing a biology project by playing with turing again.

I've decided that i'mma gonna make an asteroids ripoff.

'cept its gonna be 2 player.

Right now i"m working on the motion of the ships.

I have a parameter called 'orientation' which stores the angle of rotation of the ship (degrees).

How would I go about having a ship drift and alter course?

--edit--

Question still stands, but i'm going to do this in java.

Move me plz?

-Z

[Cervantes]

Zster wrote:

So I'm putting off doing a biology project by playing with turing again.

Bah! I put off four projects (three of which are ISU's) all day, due to playing with Turing. 8)

Anyways, to your question:
Check out Zylum's tutorial on ship movement for Asteroid type games. It should help you greatly.
Actually, what exactly do you mean by, "drift and alter course"? If you mean something other than what Zylum has done in his tutorial, please clarify.
-Cervantes

[TheZsterBunny]

Right.

Forgot about that, but i've already some similar code.

I'll bet you've played EVNova before. In this game, you can change the direction you're facing (ship) without moving in that direction. Sort of like a drifting car.

I've attached some prelim. turing code to show what the game'll look like.

Of course, i don't yet know the equiv. of array char of boolean in java

-Z

--edit--

lol. reviewing code. Seems i'm more used to having many procedures now. thanks java

[Cervantes]

Never played EVNova before.
Perhaps you could have six buttons for each player. Forward, back, turn left, turn right, strafe left (move perpindicular to the direction you're facing) and strafe right.
That seems to easy, you must have thought of that already. I guess I'm still not understanding the question

[TheZsterBunny]

Alright, I'll try to explain in a more general sense.

When you drive a car, your wheels apply force to the road to move you foreward. Because of this design, cars can only move in the direction that the wheels dictate.

In space, however, once you're moving, there is very little that slows you down. Once you've accelerated in a certain direction, regardless of where you're aiming at, you will continue in your direction untill you accelerate (thrusters) again.

?

-Z

[Cervantes]

Wow. When I first ran your program, I thought to myself, "He should really fix it so that your ship doesn't always move in the direction it's facing."
Here's my mod:

[TheZsterBunny]

domo

^_^

-Z