From: gregorio AT jet DOT es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Pinball-programming
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:07:42 GMT
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>I need help with my programm. I wanted to programm a breakout game, where 
>a ball moves around. I have tried to use " (sin x)² + (cos x)² = 1 " or 
>something like that to calculate the next coordinates, but it isn`t 
>working very well - in a nutshell it is bullshit -.

Too difficult. The easy way is to give the ball two coordinates at
startup. Then, you add some 'movement' values to it each frame. Say
you want a perfect diagonal move, then x_add=1 and y_add=1 if the ball
is moving right and down. If you want to move slightly down and up,
you could say then x_add = 2 and y_add = -1.

For each frame you add the values x_add and y_add to the coordinates
of the ball, and display it in the new place. Of course, before moving
you have to check if there's a brick at the place you want to move the
ball so that you can make it bounce off.

- Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz - gregorio AT jet DOT es - http://web.jet.es/gregorio
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