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to make a mini fighting game, how do u store health and change it?
just like, it shows say,
Hugo - Health 100%
he hits kick
and the Hugo - Health changes to 90% but it doesnt re print this text. where it says Hugo - Health - 100%, it stays there but the 100 turns to 90.
Well it all depends on what you're using for graphics, OpenGL, basic GDI, etc. But either way I'd recommend storing it in a variable and then updating the screen so it will show the variable's new content after it's changed. Just a suggestion, don't get ahead of yourself.
You'll want to position the cursor one the screen, or (ugh) clear the whole screen and repaint the whole thing.
See the FAQ, or try gotoxy() in <conio.h>.
thanks for the fast replys.
ok, well whats the easiest graphics thing to learn? basicly all i want to do it have writing thats explaining what you doin, like hugo punched david etc.. and then a picture to appear. basic JPEG image from a folder.
yeh i thought about making a variable to hold the health in but im not too sure on how to do it... any chance you could show me a small example of a code that would work?
also how do i refresh the whole screen?
also once i sussed out the basic part id like to add buttons with the move name on it and when i click it, it does what it would if i typed !punch or ! kick or /punch, \kick etc...
How's your object orientation concepts? The best thing to do
would be make yourself a very basic console app first - design
a fighter class and have methods for different attacks and
store health, then decrement the health for your oponent.
Here's some pseudo-code to point you in the right direction:
Get your console going first on its own, then try out loading it intoCode:class Fighter
{
private:
int health;
string name;
int kickstrength;
int punchstrength;
public:
//cxtrs here
bool kickoponent (Fighter &oponent);
bool punchoponent (Fighter &oponent);
int GetHealth ();
//and so on for more detailed attacks
};
int main (void)
{
//Create instances of your fighters
//menu stuff for turn select and attack choice
//below is what player 1 kicking player 2 might look like
if (Player1.kickoponent(Player2))
{
cout << Player2.GetHealth ();
}
else
{
cout << "Player 1 wins" << endl;
}
//and similarly for player 2 attacking player 1
return 0;
}
a window and displaying basic graphics. Then all the fancy stuff
with buttons can come along.
As far as graphics librarys go, there is some choice, but I've seen
people do amazing looking stuff with openGL in a very short
period of time, so thats the only one I could recommend.
wow thanks alot mate!
ok ive copied it down so when i get there ill use it. :)
what do u mean get the consol going first?
ok ill try n learn OpenGL , can you learn this advanced on the internet in tutorials and stuff?
the game i wanted to try would have like... 100's of different moves. like grab opponent and when u do that, lets say a list of 10 moves comes up and u can choose which one ud like to do, once you have chosen, it goes to ure opponents choice to choose to try to reverse it or let it hit.. etc... lol sorry its its long winded.
What i meant by console was exactly what you are talking about
in your other post - the "DOS box". You should code your
program so that it appears in the console - simple text menu
indicating what options are available to the player. The user
uses the keyboard to select an option and the program prints
the effect of that option. This is all very basic stuff.
In your other post, you mention that you've studied all the
tutorials on this site. Even if you have studied them in good
detail, very little of that will help you in relation to using the
buttons and the mouse - the Windows API is a very strange
beast. Keep your program simple, like the structure I've laid out,
then build on it to intoduce more moves - and then branching
them out as you wish. All of the attack functions will essentially
be the same, only deducting different amounts from the oponents
health.
If you kept on building the program, you could have a character
select menu, whereby you might code a generic base class
Fighter, with all the functionality that a character needs, then
your list of actual characters could inherit all the basic punches
and kicks from the base, saving you time - because each derived
class would have different values for attributes such as attack
strengths.
Hey all this sounds like fun, might make a basic game such as
this myself after my exams!
For openGL tutorials, one of my friends learned from this site,
and was able to develop some very cool maps and stuff from
it very rapidly.
oh i get ya lol sorry i bet i sounded so thick then.
thanks for all the help.
im going to look into the advanced part of Classes soon, about half way through this book so far.
nice, thanks for the link for the graphics, ill get straight onto that after ive finished reading this E-Book i have.
sorry to keep asking loadsa things lol.
but im just wondering how much harder it would be to make it online.. so u can fight other people who have the program open... and have a small chat room in it aswell for people to chat. i know this is way more advanced than just knowing C++ lol but its something id like to eventualy be able to do.
thanks for all the help mate. Oh and do u have MSN ?
Hugo.
It would be considerably harder to make it a networked game.
I assume that you are eventually aiming to make this a basic
street fighter style game, with characters moving at the same
time - then you would have to look at multi-threading. Also
if it was online, the program would also ahave to simultaneously
update each players screen very rapidly. The truth is that it
is not impossible, but you would need years of experience to
be able to wite a program of that calibre, and a lot of time if you
were doing it on your own too! Not trying to dishearten you,
but you need to have realistic goals, otherwise you will get very
disappointed very quickly.
Also, I am on MSN but I prefer not to use it - if you have a
question, I don't mind the PM but I can't be guaranteed to be able
to help, so it may sometimes be a better idea to post questions
here. My advice is as always, not to give in at the first stumbling
block with problems you encounter - perseverence pays off big
time in developing good coding experience, but when you are
really stuck, then you need help.
Good luck with the game - take it slow!
NoNoNO lol u dont understand what kind of game i mean.
i would never dream of doing one like that, im too thick lol.
its like... how to explain it, kind of card game but not lol.
like this will be a bit long winded.
u start match ( lets say wrestling \ boxing etc.. )
it asks you to choose a fighter ( could be anyone , The rock , Triple H , Mike Tyson etc.. )
when both players have chosen a person, it loads up that fighters health, and his moveset ( all fighters have different move sets and finishing moves \ blows ) but u cannot see each others health. maybe a condition ( Great , Good , Woozy , Very Hurt, Dead on his feet)
u start in open play where u cant do too much, maybe, catch high, catch low, duck , punch and maybe a kick. once the person it starts with chooses, nothing happens apart from giving the opponent a choice, he can do either one of them too. now say i punch and he Catches high, He will get control. or i punch he catches low, my punch will hit and i will be in CLOSED PLAY in control. now say he got control.
now hes in CLOSED PLAY and he has a bigger selection of moves.
say , Grab, Behind opponent , running, these are kind of setup positions, when you choose one, a NEW moveset comes up with the actual moves you can attempt from that position. say u choose, running and then dive at opponent, then the other player then has a selection of moves that could reverse that, duck, jump out way, high kick etc.. based on either random numbers again, it could hit, or the other player may reverse it. if reversed, other play then gets CLOSED PLAY in control, if it hits, player remains in CLOSED PLAY and probably have opponent on the floor. then has a new move set to choose one from.
when opponent health = very low, can go for the finishing blow which K.O or in wrestling, can finish and then pin.
now each Position has 1 single JPEG appear on screen, not moving. then when he attempts a move, a NEW still image shows the move thats being performed and if it hits, can show another one of them laying down, ducking, and so on.
really sorry its long winded but i just wanted to explain my idea.
now do you understand?
Yes i see. Well the good news is that it sounds considerably
easier than what I thought you were working towards. Classes
deinitely seem to be the best tool for this job - when you get
handy with them you will see that you could store the fighter's
current status (open/closed play), the other oponents choices
can affect your current characters status.
It sounds like that the only hard part of the program will be
working out your menu structures. The program is definitely
going to be a work in progress for a while, but all of your attack
functions will be similar, but coding all the details of all the
character unique data will be tedious. Sounds like a solid task
in program design structure - the individual parts of the code
to do the various things will be easy, but arranging it well will
be a challenge.
ok thanks.
yes i got the idea from a game coded in mIRC lol. but everyone can get all the source in that and maybe edit it. so C++ is safer.
i was thinking about using seperate classes per wrestler. like
the rock
[stats]
int health = 120;
float stamina = 1.2;
float adrenalin = 12000;
not sure what variable the moves could be set to. could be wrong as im new in classes lol just trying to get small idea.
[open play]
catch high(0, 0.1);
catch low(0, 0.1);
punch(4, 0.3):
kick (5, 0.5);
etc...
[closed]
(set of closed moves and more positions)
[grappling]
[in corner]
[opponent down]
[opponent staggered]
[on top rope]
etc... and each position holds like
punch(5, 0.3) as in 5 damage and takes away 0.3 adrenalin from you.
kick(6, 0.6)
and like
finishing move(19, 11.5, 10) the last 10 adds a higher winning chance for this turn.
if you get what i mean. ne chance you could type 1 small class example of how i could store a wrestler and the positions \ moves? even just like 5 moves for the example with the damage, adren factors.
also a match starts at Turn 0 and goes up each time a move connects. a normal match has max number or 200 turns and then its declared a draw. not likely to last that long though.
Hugo.
Well its all a matter of design choice really. Adrenaline is a good
idea - remember in fighting games where you have to build up
a status bar by making powerful attatcks, and when you reach
a high enough level, you can pull of a special move?
Your classes are going to be of a similar form as the one I
posted earlier, so I'll just show you an implementation of one of
the functions in in it, whereby a player kicks another player.
here's the class again
Now an implementation of kickoponent:Code:class Fighter
{
private:
int health;
string name;
int kickstrength;
int punchstrength;
int adrenaline;
public:
//cxtrs here
bool kickoponent (Fighter &oponent);
bool punchoponent (Fighter &oponent);
int GetHealth ();
//and so on for more detailed attacks
};
I mentioned inheritance earlier, and it is a good application of it.Code:bool Fighter::kickoponent(Fighter &oponent)
{
if (oponent.health <= kickstrength)
{
oponent.health = 0;
return false //oponent is dead!
}
oponent.health -= kickstrength; //performing damage of amount kickstrength
adrenaline += 10; //increasing adrenaline by some amount
return true; //player still has some health, so let main know about it
}
What you would do would be to write a base class with some
very basic functionality, such as basic moves such as punches
and kicks, methods to return the health and so on. Then
you can create a whole bunch of classes which inherit all this
functionality and can implement extra things such as player
specific moves. Each class will inherit the same types of attributes
but can have different values for those attributes - one character
can have stronger kicks than another, but the code that executes
a kick is the same - you only write it once!
You should get started on implementing the above class - just
do one class type and test it out in a program that looks like the
pseudo-program I posted earlier.
nice, thanks mate.
how do i set health to a certain number at the start?
thing is, i need to make the consol fight back or i dont know if its working well... :/
could i
save this as a header and #include it in the main source code and it still calls the variables and does it how it should?Code:class Fighter
{
private:
int health;
string name;
int kickstrength;
int punchstrength;
int adrenaline;
public:
//cxtrs here
bool kickoponent (Fighter &oponent);
bool punchoponent (Fighter &oponent);
int GetHealth ();
//and so on for more detailed attacks
};