Believe it or not I actually get all of both of those programs. The game is going to be very simple so I doubt the game engine will not work with the graphics. Thanks for the draw() and setup() functions Im obviously going to need them to make a game. I think with a slight bit of tweaking I can make the image move with the keys. Are there any functions that work if images intersect? Im definitely going to need one for my game to work easily. Eg, there is a picture of the floor and the guy moves down untill he reaches the floor or a platform. GRAVITY! If there arent then it would save me a lot of trouble of plotting all the images exact coordinates just to use built in rectangles and circles like the bot program.

Here's the basic framework to get you started, as shown from other people's examples

Code:

//everything that you want to load should be taken care of here
void setup(){

  //define your screen size
  size(500,500);

}

//this gets called every frame and draws to screen
void draw(){

  //draw a black background
  background(0);

}

//whenever your mouse is pressed, this gets called
void mousePressed(){
  
  //if you don't believe me, uncomment the following
  //println("mouse is pressed!");
  //println("mouse was at " + mouseX + ", " + mouseY);
}

//whenever your keyboard is touched, this gets called
void keyPressed(){

  //println("the key that was pressed: " + key);

}

 

And then on a seperate "tab" for neatness sakes you can implement your objects for your game, like characters, enemies, physics engines, what have you.

Well, my idea for the primitives would be far too hard to make  becouse I would have to do some serious equations and geometry so Im going to use my original Idea. I've gotten the mask function to work how I want and I just going to use boxes around the sprites for collisions. I should be able to figure it out on my own. Im just trying to change your first animation syntax to my liking. Then Im going to work on the physics and movement. The one problem is that Im having a little trouble to get the private funcions to work. Il figure it out and keep you posted keep you posted.

An array is a single item (despite having many parts).

So for a function asking for:

ASprite(PImage[] f,PImage[] m, float fps)

you would give it:

ASprite pyros = new ASprite(mframe,  mframemask, 30);

You can't give a function the wrong number of parameters, ASprite takes 3, so it will throw its toys out of the pram if you don't give it 3 or don't provide another method that accepts what you're providing.

And if you've got files ending in numbers you could make life easier by doing this:
Code:

PImage [] pimage = new PImage[10];
for(int i = 0; i < pimage.length; i++){
  pimage[i] = loadImage("myimage"+i+".jpg");
}
 

The procedural nature of computers is fairly ubiquitous. If you want to work with computers you should generally have the mind set that everything you're going to do is going to run like so:

Action 1

Action 2

Action 3

Action 4

Action 5

So you would design what's going in to draw() in some magic order and accept the intrinsically non-parallel nature of computers today.

Or you can research threads.

As much as I would LOVe to do a multithreaded game, it would only overcomplicate a simple game. I will just execute all of my functions using draw and by using the thing you suggested. I need a little advice on one part though. I've sucessfully put in animations and made movement of the character.

There are two things I need help on. First, is that I used if statements under keypressed() to make movement (if (keyCode == UP) then move up etc) but the movement starts out sluggish before getting up to speed. I tried using while keyCode == UP in essentially the same way but the program freezed as soon as I pushed UP. Is there any way to get the while to work or to get rid of the sluggishness?

Second, to do the intersections, I am making a class for eac different guy which has their collision size in it (basically a rectangle with coordinates). In order to simplify the collision, I need to be able to get the class to return its built in coordinates at command. How can I get the class to return integers on command which it has stored? Even if the integer is private, I should be able to make a function of the class to make it return the integer right?

Thanks, You guys have been a huge help so far

Ok everything so far is working. The one thing I need now is a way to flip the picture horizontally. Is there a way to do this in processing? Either using a command/ built in function or a relatively easy way of making my own function. If it is too complicated then I an just flip the pictures in Paint and import them into the library as a different name then call them up as something else. The one problem with this is that I'm trying to keep the game small a flipped version of the same picture uses up valuable space. Thanks for the keyReleased thing, thats really useful.

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<grin> It propably will, but you're propably in for quite a lot, so take your time with this, start small and try to build up step by step. I would like to heavily recommend http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg which IMHO provides a good introduction on the subject and covers all techniques you will need to get succesfully going.