Pictures

[yusong]

I am making a game and there is one part where depending on the element that the player picks, a different coloured orb is drawn.

So it would be like this if your element was Fire
Pic.Draw (FireOrb, CharX, CharY, picCopy)

But what if the element was say, water, but i dont want to do
Pic.Draw (WaterOrb, CharX, CharY, picCopy)

Is there a way to do something like this?
Pic.Draw (Element + Orb, CharX, CharY, picCopy)

[Tony]

not quite in this way. That's a variable pointing to the picture, so instead of just

code:

fireOrb := Pic.New() waterOrb := Pic.New()

you should also have something like

code:

elementOrb := fireOrb

and then you can always Pic.Draw(elementOrb), and later change what that particular element variable points to.

[yusong]

kk, thank you for the help.

[yusong]

Also, I would like this orb to move to the point I click on the map, how would I do that?

[Sean]

Are you saying, redraw the picture there?

[Tony]

Quote:

Pic.Draw (Element + Orb, CharX, CharY, picCopy)

set your CharX and CharY to the location of the mouse. You can get the coordinates of the latter with Mouse.Where()

[shakin cookie]

also, you could PicMerge the element colour and the orb, or use turing's new picBlend

Pic.DrawSpecial(200,100,picCopy,picBlend,100)

[Sean]

Yes, use mouse_x, mouse_y then if button is pressed, clear screen and redraw orb where mouse_x is.

[yusong]

No, I mean moving it across the screen, as in like a magic spell moving across the screen.
Sry for the confusion.

[Tony]

use a for-loop

[yusong]

What do you mean?

[Nick]

for x:orbx.. mousex
orbx:=mousex
end for

Tony wouldn't it be better to rather increase the orb x and y each run through the main loop to make it look cleaner?

[yusong]

So... How do i do say, from one point to another, that is not on a line or diagonal?

[Nick]

hmmm I'll see if I can find some old code that you can learn from

EDIT:

found some

Turing:

process moveGuy1     if chara (1) = true then         anox := x%this is old code I'm sorry for the         anoy := y%poor structure and x and y are mouse location         loop     %also you probably don't want a process sso try to switch into a procedure             if anox > movex then                 movex := movex + 1             elsif anox < movex then                 movex := movex - 1             end if             if anoy > movey then                 movey := movey + 1             elsif anoy < movey then                 movey := movey - 1             end if             exit when movex = anox and movey = anoy             %delay (2)         end loop     end if     onlyOnce := false end moveGuy1

also please note I no longer write like this and cannot believe I ever had :S

[yusong]

kk, THX
but, it is a 2D Tile game, so, whenever I click, it just stops and the pic does not show.
how do i stop that?