Hello everybody. First of all, i am from Austria, so please excuse any mistakes i might make.

Well, last week i applied to an university, and now i got an Email with a little "home-work" to do. I guess they will look over it and if they like my game that would help me a lot for sure.

Well, we should make a game where you have to collecte 10 Rectangles, and once you've collected all the rectangles, you should get a "you win!"-Message.

Well, i don't think that this is gonna get that hard, but to make my game "shine over the others" i dont just want boring rectangles, i want cow's which you can collect with an UFO. But I'm stuck with the UFO-Part. How do i fix the ufo to my mouse?

I tryed to set rectangle mode to center, and created a 40x40 (thats the size of the ufo.png) rectangle. Then i tryed to set the position-data to mouseX and mouseY, like this:

rectMode(CENTER);
rect(mouseX, mouseY, 40, 40);

I put all of that into the void draw()-function, but now it creates 60 rectangles per second, and i think thats not how its intended to work best?
It would be better to create the rectangle first and just update the position with the draw-function, but i have no clue how to do that. Can you guys help me?


And i got another question: When i try to put the background-image intro the draw-function, it overwrites every "Cow-Square"(the orange ones). But when i put it into the setup-function, then i get thousands of the mouse-squares. Where is my mistake?

I hope you can help me and excuse me if this were dumb questions, you would help me alot! Thank you in adavance!

Greeting from austria


Here is my Code:

1. PImage bg;
   
   //Set kords for the cow-rectangles:
   
   int [] xkord={176, 114, 298, 402, 385, 245, 462, 382, 503, 544};
   int [] ykord={424, 180, 308, 288, 410, 72, 122, 169, 200, 267};
    
   
   
   void setup() {
     size(684, 600);
    
     //load background-image
     bg = loadImage("asdfg.jpg");
     background(bg);
    
    
     //load the cow-rectangles(so far just orange rectangles)
    
     fill(255, 95, 17);
    
     for(int i=0; i<10; i++){
   
     rect(xkord[i], ykord[i], 41, 39);
   
   }
    
   }
   
   void draw() {
    
   // start Ufo-rectangle(so far just a green rect.)
   fill(0, 255, 0);
   rectMode(CENTER);
   rect(mouseX, mouseY, 40, 40);
    
   }