trying to track my ship

[stickdude32]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
collision on the ship and shooting lasers from the front


What is the problem you are having?
cant 'locate' the ships position


Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
drwing a circle at the ships variable

Post any relevant code (You may choose to attach the file instead of posting the code if it is too long)
<Answer Here>

Turing:

<Add your code here>

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
4.1

[stickdude32]

or do u guys need the pics as well?

[DemonWasp]

To actually run your program, yes, we would need the pictures as well.

That said, I think the reason that using "ship" to draw the oval isn't working is because "ship" refers to the picture ID of a rotated ship image.

[mirhagk]

I'd suggest using a type to store all the ship variables for instance

Turing:

var ship :     record         x, y : int         pic : int     end record

that would record the position and the pic id of the ship. Of course you would wanna add more to it so that it stores ALL the ships data but that should get you started.

[stickdude32]

DemonWasp @ Tue Jan 05, 2010 10:29 pm wrote:

To actually run your program, yes, we would need the pictures as well.

That said, I think the reason that using "ship" to draw the oval isn't working is because "ship" refers to the picture ID of a rotated ship image.

there u go. u can delete those startup stuff.

[stickdude32]

mirhagk @ Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:10 am wrote:

I'd suggest using a type to store all the ship variables for instance

Turing:

var ship :     record         x, y : int         pic : int     end record

that would record the position and the pic id of the ship. Of course you would wanna add more to it so that it stores ALL the ships data but that should get you started.

thing is... i didn't learn about record. all i was taught was normal movement, puting things at certain places and making a high low game. i learned about the music and other small stuff. so i tried to figure the things of an asteroid game.

[stickdude32]

heres the complete folder.

[stickdude32]

im running out of time to finish this.

[stickdude32]

stickdude32 @ Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:49 am wrote:

mirhagk @ Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:10 am wrote:

I'd suggest using a type to store all the ship variables for instance

Turing:

var ship :     record         x, y : int         pic : int     end record

that would record the position and the pic id of the ship. Of course you would wanna add more to it so that it stores ALL the ships data but that should get you started.

thing is... i didn't learn about record. all i was taught was normal movement, puting things at certain places and making a high low game. i learned about the music and other small stuff. so i tried to figure the things of an asteroid game.

nvm, i figured it out...slightly

[Ktomislav]

X coordinate of the lower left corner of the ship is variable x, y coordinate of the lower left corner of the ship is variable y.
X coordinate of the upper right corner of the ship is variable x+Pic.Width(ship), y coordinate of the upper right corner of the ship is variable y+Pic.Height(ship).

Is that what you wanted?

[stickdude32]

Ktomislav @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:59 am wrote:

X coordinate of the lower left corner of the ship is variable x, y coordinate of the lower left corner of the ship is variable y.
X coordinate of the upper right corner of the ship is variable x+Pic.Width(ship), y coordinate of the upper right corner of the ship is variable y+Pic.Height(ship).

Is that what you wanted?

i dunno i fiddled around with that but it didnt quite work i way i thought it would. could you put into a code that goes with the file.

[Euphoracle]

Why can't you put it into code? :S

Save the position of your ship from moveShip to a variable you define at the top of your program and then you can 'locate' it anywhere.

Ktomislav's post refers to 'collision detection'. Basically, if you know where the ship is located on the screen (your original question) in terms of x position and y position, and you know the height and width of the image (Turing has functions for this), then you can check if two squares are within the bounds of each other using math (as described in the Turing Tutorial forum).

[Ktomislav]

Also you don't use sprites correctly because you define variable ship as
a picture, but use it as a sprite.

[stickdude32]

Euphoracle @ Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:42 am wrote:

Why can't you put it into code? :S

Save the position of your ship from moveShip to a variable you define at the top of your program and then you can 'locate' it anywhere.

Ktomislav's post refers to 'collision detection'. Basically, if you know where the ship is located on the screen (your original question) in terms of x position and y position, and you know the height and width of the image (Turing has functions for this), then you can check if two squares are within the bounds of each other using math (as described in the Turing Tutorial forum).

thats the thing. im trying to find the ships position, but i cant. the variables for the ship are not at the ship actual position. there way up and over the outer edge.

[stickdude32]

this is the code of it now.