Animate Your Game!!
Week 6 Reflection
Lesson 12: Draw Loops
Draw Loops have been pretty interesting working with this week. A Draw Loop is a function that allows you to make changes over time. This allows your animation to have the illusion of a flip book. The Draw Loop function will repeat the command over and over as long as the program is running. For a draw function to work, all the commands inside run line by line, from top to bottom. If you dont include the background in your loop, a new sprite will be created every second causing a distorted image to appear on the screen. Adding the background in the loop erases the past sprites created.
Lesson 13: Sprite Movement
Giving our sprites movement has been really fun. We practiced using a jet plane and changing both the x-axis and y-axis to the same counter pattern to make it go diagonal. A counter program is used to give your sprite a linear movement whether up the page (negative) or from the left to the right (positive). Counter Program is demonstrated as x=x+1. We even got to learn how to make a sprite enlarge from the middle of the page. Making our fish rotate up and down gave the illusion of them wiggling.
Lesson 14: Mini Project-Animation
The Mini projects we get to do in class are fun with a challenge. This week, we worked with Sprite Movements and turned our Sprites into scripted scenes. I chose to use a cave sprite background for my project to challenge myself a bit. For my characters, I used some rpg chararcters in the Game Lab animation tab. We had to also add shapes into our background so I made a Family or Tribe "Crest" with my shapes. Using the regpoly shapes allowed me to layer different shapes to make a full "Crest" for my characters. Using the rotation property and counter pattern, I animated my characters so they looked as though they are really speaking to one another. The third character charged off the page with usage of my counter pattern.
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