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Trying to make a pong game. Please help!

2006-01-26T19:18:54-05:00

Or, you might want to try something a bit different for collision detection. Deleter's way works just fine for most situations... but in some instances it can cause the ball to vibrate madly back and forth inside the object its colliding with. I dont feel like coding anythnig right now, but think in terms of... ill say "collision paths". Instead of just checking to see if your inside an object, check to see if your next move is gonna hit the paddle and if it does, place the ball on the paddle farthest away from the center of the paddle while keeping the ball in the collision path. Its sounds confusing, but Ill let other people get in depth with it. This way, ever if you over shoot the paddle cause your moving so fast, the ball wont get stuck inside but will bounce directly off the surface. A little bit of interesecting line math is needed for this one and some fairly tricky logic. Did I make any sense?

Statistics: Posted by Zamaster — Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:18 pm

Trying to make a pong game. Please help!

2006-01-20T15:03:59-05:00

I agree with deleter. I used POINT for my first pong clone, and results weren't very pretty...

Statistics: Posted by {Nathan} — Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:03 pm

Trying to make a pong game. Please help!

2006-01-19T15:34:50-05:00

you would probably be better off using collision detection with bounding boxes.

something like this:

Code:

if ( ball.y - ball.radius ) < ( paddle.y + paddle.height ) then    if ( ball.y + ball.radius ) > ( paddle.y ) then        if ( ball.x - ball.radius ) < ( paddle.x + paddle.width ) then            ball.xSpeed = -ball.xSpeed        end if    end ifend if

Statistics: Posted by Deleter — Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:34 pm

Trying to make a pong game. Please help!

2006-01-19T02:24:48-05:00

The POINT command returns the color of a point on the screen. So basically if you've got a black background, you could see if the color of the point in front of the ball is black or not, and if not, then bounce the ball. (You need to check in front of the ball and not actually AT the ball because checking the point where the ball is at will always make it bounce, since it'll "see" the ball as an object to bounce off of.)

The basic syntax:

Code:

c = POINT(x,y)

Which returns the color value of the point at (x,y).

Statistics: Posted by Xerol — Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:24 am

Trying to make a pong game. Please help!

2006-01-18T16:51:18-05:00

Hello, everyone. I've been working on a remake of Ping Pong. So far I've got the ball moving, the paddles controlled. Now, for your help. I would like to know how can I make the ball bounce in the other direction if it hits the paddle. I was told by a senior to use the point command. I have no clue what/how that works. Please, an explanation on point command will be appericiated.

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:51 pm