Hi,

This guide shows how easy it is to add a simple Sprite object into an AppGameKit project and get it moving. Sprites are amazing powerful 2d objects, that can be moved, rotated, scaled, faded, collided with and a whole host of other effects. This simple tutorial starts with the basics and will be expanded on in depth in future guides.

You will need to copy and paste some of the media that is provided with AppGameKit as explained in the video. This media is located in your projects folder, in the Sprites/SpriteAnim1/Media folder.

As with the last example, you can find the resulting code below the video.


// Project: making a sprite move.
// Created: 2014-11-21

// set window properties
SetWindowTitle( "making a sprite move." )

// set variables
screenwidth=1024
screenheight=768
fullscreen=0

// set display properties for platforms that support windows, e.g., Windows or Mac.

SetWindowSize(screenwidth,screenheight,fullscreen )

// set display properties for mobile devices.

SetVirtualResolution(screenwidth,screenheight)


// Set up a sprite data

balloonsprite=1
balloonx=512
balloony=384
balloondirection=1

balloonimage=LoadImage("item0.png")

// create a sprite with ID that uses the balloon image
CreateSprite (balloonsprite,balloonimage)


// Main loop

do

// set the sprite position.
SetSpritePosition (balloonsprite,balloonx,balloony)

//move the balloon along the X axis by the amount specified by balloondirection
balloonx=balloonx+balloondirection

// check to see if the balloon is near the far right edge of the screen and if so, reverse direction
if balloonx+GetSpriteWidth(balloonsprite)>screenwidth
balloondirection=-1
endif

// check to see if the balloon is near the far left edge of the screen and if so, reverse direction
if balloonx<1
balloondirection=1
endif


Sync()
loop