Hi, I am making a program in which there is a small actor, and when I call the function I want many of those actors to fill a certain area in the screen, and I have no idea where to start. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks alot.
John
jhadad wrote ...
2012/9/14
Fill an area with actors
First I will define an area to put the actors and the number of actors to put there; then, I will create and place that many actors in that area (there are a couple of ways to fill the area, (1) randomly, or (2) evenly; for (2) you will need to get the width and height of the image of the actor and place them next to (and above and below) each other using them (the width and height of the image of the actor) as offsets). The following is for (1) randomly:
If the code is to be in an Actor sub-class (like a Button or something), just prefix 'addObject(...)' with 'getWorld().'.
// fields for the defining of the area and the number of actors
int leftX = 200, rightX = 400, topY = 100, bottomY = 300;
int totalActors = 100;
// if in a World sub-class, to add the actors in the specified area
for (int i = 0; i < totalActors; i++)
{
int actorX = leftX + Greenfoot.getRandomNumber(rightX - leftX);
int actorY = topY + Greenfoot.getRandomNumber(bottomY - topY);
addObject(new SmallActor(), actorX, actorY);
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