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[ChilePepper]

heya folks. I was just wandering how to wright numbers with decimals such as 0.5, 2.6, 3.4 etc. Any help would be appreciated

[bogax]

depends on what you're trying to do

 

this is probably what you want

[ChilePepper]

here is an example:

 

You know the tinkernut tutorial, right? That has you making a game in which a squirrel-thing chases a nut thing. to make the squirrel move you would use some lines of code like 

 

if player1y > player01 then player1y = player1y -1

 

how would I make it so that it would be like "then player1y = player1y - 0.5" aka, slowing down the squirrel. Help is appreciated. Thanks.

[KevKelley]

Definitely check the link provided as it is a big help. Basically you have to define a special variable, so do something like :

 

dim squirrelthing_move = a.b

 

Then you define a and b.

 

So a=0 and b=5

 

So you can do this:

 

if player1y > player01 then player1y = player1y -squirrelthing_move

 

But if you are really interested in learning, I highly recommend reading the forums and Random Terrain's website. There is a lot of helpful information out there!

[ChilePepper]

uh oh, now its not moving period.

 

 a = 0
 b = 5
 dim slowspeed = a.b

 if player1y < player0y then player1y = player1y + slowspeed
 if player1y > player0y then player1y = player1y - slowspeed
 if player1x < player0x then player1x = player1x + slowspeed
 if player1x > player0x then player1x = player1x - slowspeed

 

once again, thanks for the help

Edited April 23, 2020 by ChilePepper

[bogax]

 

  dim p1y = player1y.p  ; p is the fractional part 

  if player1y > player0y then p1y = p1y - 0.5

Edited April 23, 2020 by bogax
typo

[ChilePepper]

Okay, so bogax's thing worked, except the speed of the squirrel seemed to change randomly, sometimes going painfully slow, sometimes turbo speed. How would I fix this? thanks for the 4th time.

Edited April 23, 2020 by ChilePepper

[Lillapojkenpåön]

50 minutes ago, KevKelley said:

Definitely check the link provided as it is a big help. Basically you have to define a special variable, so do something like :

 

dim squirrelthing_move = a.b

 

Then you define a and b.

 

So a=0 and b=5

 

So you can do this:

 

if player1y > player01 then player1y = player1y -squirrelthing_move

 

But if you are really interested in learning, I highly recommend reading the forums and Random Terrain's website. There is a lot of helpful information out there!

This would not work, it would only add a to player1y, and in this case it's 0 so nothing would happen,

and I don't think 0.5 sets b to five, probaly 128 or something.

[KevKelley]

Thanks. I knew I should double check! I was feeling brave enough to post something from memory. This reinforces my statement about reading the website!

[+TwentySixHundred]

7 hours ago, ChilePepper said:

Okay, so bogax's thing worked, except the speed of the squirrel seemed to change randomly, sometimes going painfully slow, sometimes turbo speed. How would I fix this? thanks for the 4th time.

Using this method you will need to add a statement for when player1 is less then player0, add this aswell

if player1y < player0y then p1y = p1y + 0.5

Im assuming what you're experiencing is when your player is above player1 it goes full speed

 

As for the speed being too slow - you will need to tweak the value as desired

[ChilePepper]

this is what i got: 

 

 dim p1y = player1y.p
 dim p1x = player1x.p

 if player1y < player0y then p1y = p1y + 0.5
 if player1y > player0y then p1y = p1y - 0.5
 if player1x < player0x then p1x = p1x + 0.5
 if player1x > player0x then p1x = p1x - 0.5

 

still moving slow and fast and stufff. Thanks.

Edited April 23, 2020 by ChilePepper

[+Random Terrain]

You are reusing the same variable. Try something like this instead:

 

   dim p1y = player1y.p
   dim p1x = player1x.o

 

Here's an example on the bB page:

 

randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-batari-basic-commands.html#fixedpoint_p0_p1

 

There's also an example program:

 

randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-batari-basic-commands.html#ex_fixed_point_sprite

[ChilePepper]

Sweet! Thank you!