TUTORIAL NO 12

PACMAN Animation Programming part2

In this tutorial you will learn: 1. Game Programming 2. Swing Animations 3. Event handling 4. JAVA awt 5. JAVA swing 6. Adapters Now we will continue making our PacMan animation. In this tutorial we will write the functions and conditions for up , down ,left and right. Which we were calling in our detect collision function. If you haven’t read my previous tutorial please read that tutorial first http://www.sourcecodester.com/tutorials/java/7525/pacman-animation-programming-part1.html Basic step: Download and install ECLIPSE and set up a JAVA PROJECT. Then first go through my pacman tutorial part1 then follow this tutorial. Follow these steps 1.DIRECTION CONTROL FUNCTIONS: We will write the conditions for setting the directions according to the function name. In this function we will write two conditional statement one for the pacman mouth open animation and other one for pacman mouth close animation. In the first condition we check for the angles first that they satisfy the mouth up conditions then we start incrementing the starting angle and decrementing the ending angle. Then we check for the maximum mouth open limits , when they are satisfied then we set the angles to make the mouth close conditional statement to true. In the mouth close animation we start decrementing the starting angle and incrementing the ending angle. We again keep checking for the minimum limit, when that condition is satisfied then we simply simply make the other condition true. So that our animation remains smooth. Now in the second function we again do a similar thing first set the conditions for mouth open then for mouth close. In this function again we write two conditional statements for mouth open and close animation but this is for when the pacman is moving in the left direction. In the first condition we will increment the starting angle and decrement the ending angle while in the second condition we do the opposite decrement the starting agnle and increment the ending angle. Now the last function that we want to write is for right movement we again do the exact same thing. Two conditional statements, incrementing angles in the first one and decrementing in the second. Now all are conditions are complete now we want to make a class to implement the key listener for pacman’s movement using arrow keys. 3. WRITING THE PUBLIC PACMAN CLASS In our public class we first implement the keylistener interface then make our panel and frame object. We will add the pacman’s panel in the frame like we did in all previous animations. First of all setting the frame by making a setFrame function and calling the size , close operation ,background color and visibility functions in it. After that we make add components function in which we implement the key listener to the frame and add the pacman’s panel in it. Now we override the key pressed function and set the angles according to the key pressed. We make check which button is pressed and set the angles of the pacpanel class (Remember: The angles are declared static in our pacpanel class so that we can set them in another class like we are doing right here ). For any keypress we set the start angle , end angles , direction string and the flag. So that our animation becomes perfect. In the end we simply provide the null body implementation for the remaining functions of the keylistener interface and then write our main function in which we make our pacman object , set the frame and add the components in the frame. After that we close our main as followed by the class. Now our animation is complete OUTPUT: