Views

[Geemili]

I am making a game(no duh) using slick2d. Right now, I am trying to figure out how to make a view. I don't know how others do it, but I started thinking that I could give each entity a normal x and y, and a drawing x and y. I don't really wan't to do that, because it sounds like a lot of writing and I am kind of lazy. Any help would be appreciated!

[antelopeDJ]

If you would care to elaborate on what you want help with, I'd gladly help you. But 'setting up a view' is a tad to vague to get a decent answer.

[RylandAlmanza]

If you're trying to use a camera, you can put this at the beginning of your games render function:

1	gr.translate(player.x, player.y);

That will make the camera follow your player (But he will be at the top right corner of the camera. You might want to center it.)

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[ra4king]

Actually you may want to do gr.translate(-player.x,-player.y) since translating positive values moves the map to the right.

Then change this to:

1	gr.translate(-(player.x-player.width/2) + screenWidth/2, -(player.y-player.height/2) + screenHeight/2);

To center

[Geemili]

Thank you! But I already knew how to do that. I just didn't know how to make the views. I used hard coded values instead of doing that, which would be a better way. Thank you two for you help.

[ReBirth]

Maybe the OP means a way to avoid manipulating x and y manually.

[Geemili]

I think that I am bad at posting understandable posts. I didn't know about the translate command, but I knew how to center it. I am really bad at making posts on forums.

[RylandAlmanza]

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[ra4king]

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Is that Brainf**k code? I ran that and it said "Hello World!" hehehehehe

[RylandAlmanza]

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Is that Brainf**k code? I ran that and it said "Hello World!" hehehehehe

Lol, you got it! Maybe I'm getting better at making understandable posts!

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[ra4king]

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I don't get this part though.......

[Cero]

you have to code a "camera"