This a is a tutorial about how to build a simple 'asterids' type game using
the program.
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First start up the program (if you have not
loaded the program go here)
The game starts with two large 'rocks' moving slowly around the screen. If
you were building a realistic game you would probably want to build a rock shape
using an Indexed Face Set, but since the aim here is just to demonstrate the
principles, I have used a simple box shape.
Since we require a variable number of these, then we will put them under a
'multiple' node.
Press '+' button to bring up an 'add view' window.
Drag 'multipleBean' from 'add view' to 'tree view'
In the properties view set initialInstances to 2 and maximumInstances to 10.
set the name of this node to 'large'.
Create a box under the multiple bean. The easyest way to do this is to use
the 'quick shape view' (under the view menu). Drag boxBean (or whatever shape
you wan) from the Quick Shape view to the 'large' node in the tree view.
Set the parameters of the shape to suitable values.
Under the TransformGroup add a kinematics node. Set its randomMinMax parameter
to (0.0 , 0.01).
This will cause each of the 2 instances to move in different, random directions.
Also undet the TransformGroup node, add collisionDetect and collisionAction
nodes.
Set the parameters of the collisionAction bean to the following values:
The collideWith parameter is set to 'bullet' (set it by hitting the edit button.
Also add a constraint node with the following values. This makes sure it moves
around in the viewable area.
Create a similar structure for a medium sized rock. The easyest way to do this
is to select the 'large' node and then do a duplicate (from the edit menu).
And again for a small rock.
Now create a space ship, only one of these required so it does not need to
be under a multiple node. But we want the space ship to be able to fire bullets
or missiles of some sort. So we can create a multiple node under the ship TransformGroup.
Set initialInstances and maximumInstances to 20.
Add a suitable shape for the bullet and change the name of the transformGroup
node to bullet.
Add kinematics and contraints nodes under the transform group.
We want the bullets to appear to be continously fireing, to do this set the
constraint bean as follows. The restart option causes the bullets to start again
after they reach a the boundary.
To allow us to fire the bullets add a touch sensor to the ship.
Use a route node to link the touchSensor to the enable property of the kinematics
node.
To display a score use a score node, put this under a transform node and set
the scale to (0.002,0.002,0.002) and position to (0.25,0.04,0.8) to put it in
the top right of the screen.
Add a route node to link the count parameter of the collisionAction of the
large rock to the count parameter of the score node.
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