How to toggle noStroke?

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gameboyboy

in Programming Questions • 1 year ago

Beginner question:

I've been assigned to make an animal for my computer programming class, and I based my animal after a little cartoon chicken (Castle Crashers, if you're interested). The chicken has some shading, so I'd thought I'd put it in. It looked good when I ran it on my computer, but when I uploaded it, I get this: http://profitablehobo.net16.net/Chicken.html. That ugly line for the shadow became bold. I put noStroke() before it and the rest of the lines under it also had noStroke() applied. Here are some lines of code with the noStroke(), wondering what I can put to toggle it off.

//Shadow

noStroke();

strokeWeight(0);

fill(224,220,215);

beginShape();

vertex(40,25);

vertex(25,65);

vertex(30,77);

vertex(40,84);

vertex(50,88);

vertex(70,90);

vertex(95,85);

vertex(107,61);

vertex(105,55);

vertex(95,68);

vertex(85,78);

vertex(75,76.5);

vertex(65,75);

vertex(50,68);

vertex(43,50);

vertex(40,25);

endShape();

//Beak

strokeWeight(2);

fill(240,164,51);

beginShape();

vertex(86,15);

vertex(87.5,18.5);

vertex(85,22);

vertex(86,29);

vertex(87,29);

vertex(97,29);

endShape();

Edit: I fixed it a day after v.k. submitted his solution. For those you wondering, it used to look exactly like the chicken does above, but the shadow had a noticeable black outline.

Replies(8)

v.k.

Re: How to toggle noStroke?

1 year ago

You just call stroke(colorDesired) to get it on again. They go until find another call to noStroke() or stroke(otherColor);

Just like fill().

so:

noStroke();

fill(someColor);

rect(x,y,sz,sz) // draw a rect with no stroke

stroke(borderColor);

rect(x1,y1,sz,sz) // draw a rect with stroke

noStroke();

rect(x2,y2,sz,sz) // draw a rect with no stroke

and so on...

By the way I loved the chicken as it is :-)

edit: Also srokeWeight() goes until next call... I believe all following function acts like this

The style information controlled by the following functions are included in the style: fill(), stroke(), tint(), strokeWeight(), strokeCap(), strokeJoin(), imageMode(), rectMode(), ellipseMode(), shapeMode(), colorMode(), textAlign(), textFont(), textMode(), textSize(), textLeading(), emissive(), specular(), shininess(), ambient()

(this is from the page linked below)

I try to call those (the ones i once modify ) every time i draw something, even if unnecessary cause if I add code later that changes one of them it won't affect what was right already. Don't know if it is a good practice... I get some unnecessary code, but after a lot of time spent looking for fix things like this i adopted this way. There is also pushStyle() that may help you. And maybe you can make all "solids" and than all shadows together to make less calls...

gameboyboy

Re: Re: How to toggle noStroke?

1 year ago

Tried adding stroke() after, but it didn't work (probably something I don't understand). However, adding pushStyle and popStyle worked! Much apprieciated! :D

calsign

Re: How to toggle noStroke?

1 year ago

For directly manipulating whether or not there is a stroke, use this:

void toggleStroke() {
g.getStyle().stroke = !g.getStyle().stroke;
}
boolean isStroke() {
return g.getStyle().stroke;
}

strokeColor, fill, and fillColor all work similarly.

gameboyboy

Re: Re: How to toggle noStroke?

1 year ago

I think this would work when I start getting into more complicated programming (around next year). I think I'll leave it as simple as I can right now. Thanks for the reply though! :)