Diagonal animation

[legends31]

I need Help making an animation move diagonaly. I can easily make it work back and forth, up and down but how to i make to move across the x axis and the y axis at the same time?
this is what i have

code:

process ball for y : 0 .. 400 by 10     drawfilloval (50, y + 50, 6, 6, 7)     delay (50)     drawfilloval (50, y + 50, 6, 6, 0) end for end ball

thanks
Andrew

[cutecotton]

wouldn't it be like this:

procedure ball
for y : 0 .. 400 by 10
drawfilloval (50+y, y + 50, 6, 6, 7)
delay (50)
drawfilloval (50+y, y + 50, 6, 6, 0)
end for
end ball
ball

i just changed the process ot a procedure cuz i dont know how to use processes lol. but eitherway it moves upwards diagonally. I just made the x and y increase at teh same time.

[Tony]

well basically you add the counter of the loop to both X and Y of the object. If you want to move it at a diagnal other then 45degree, then you just multiply one of the axis by a decimal, such as

code:

drawfilloval(i, round(i*0.5),5,5,blue)

this will move the ball at 22.5degrees


here's the actual code for moving the ball:

code:

process ball for i:1..200      drawfilloval(i,i,5,5,red) end for end ball

Edit: well it seems like cutecotton got to post before me... oh well, I showed how to move at angles other then 45

[cutecotton]

hmm, i know this is kinda off the topic, but it's just q uick question and i didn't watn to make a whoel new thread for it. But can someone explaint o me the difference between procedures and prcoesses and when u'd use one or the other? lol ^^;;

[Tony]

procedure is a sub program that can be executed at call
process is a procedure that can be executed parallel to other procedures. So you can have more then 1 thing running at same time. Useful for background music and animation of multiple things separatly
function is a procedure that returns a value

[cutecotton]

oo i c (tks to tony) so i'd use a process when i have to use a fork, so i can say have bg music and have my program run at teh same time. But processes can't be called at any time? they jsut run in that spot and tha'ts it?

[Tony]

processes usually run in an endless loop and are called at the beginning of the program just once. Though that depends on the structure of the program. Such as for the background music you'll have

code:

process bMusic loop play music here end loop end bMusic fork bMusic %<- Just once loop actual program here end loop

Though if its something like animation or anything that needs an exit from loop, you'd have to call it up again inside main program.

[cutecotton]

oo okay i see ^^ ur so hlepful lol (i'm such a newbie ) i'll need to use processes then in my program late ron..and array's as well...

why didn't our teacher teach us all this?! damn her for being away that day that she was suppose to teach us everything *sigh*

O.o*cutecotton*o.O

[Albrecd]

Quote:

here's the actual code for moving the ball:

Code:

process ball

for i:1..200
drawfilloval(i,i,5,5,red)
end for

end ball

You should put a delay, otherwise it looks like Draw.ThickLine

[codemage]

Check the rules, please.

Don't make posts to topics that are older than a couple of weeks old AT MOST. This is called necro posting, because you're responding to a topic that is considered DEAD.

Ie, nobody has cared about this thread for almost 3 years now.

If you must, you can PM a person in the thread if you have something to add, or a related question.

[Cervantes]

Well put.

codemage wrote:

If you must, you can PM a person in the thread if you have something to add, or a related question.

Although, just to drive the point home, even this would not have any affect, as the thread starter is long gone.

And I'm locking this one. Perhaps you'd like to try to justify using many variables as opposed to an array, so I'll leave the other one open for some fun.