Thursday, December 6, 2007

ahhh due tomorrow and poll

scratch wouldn't work on my computer. i couldn't install it!!! I don't know why? maybe i don't have enough room on my computer? i mean hey its pretty full but yea seriously!!! or maybe its just .......... so now i'm going to have to go to school early tomorrow and try and edit the last bit of my assignment AHHH!!!!! thank goodness all i have to do is one more broadcast page which is the 'YOU WIN' section!


and the poll... yea about that how do i do that?

**edit:
OK so my poll is up though its on a different blog. you can find it here, please complete it ^^
http://itpoll.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

problems that have arised / solutions

The making of the assignment i found was quite easy. In other words it never took long to complete a particular section as it seemed to be very easy to construct.

the positives/easy things of my assignment were:
Movement was easy to make as well as the constant costume change for my bat sprite. Other things which were quite straight forward were the making of my backgrounds and other sprites (the flying rocks).
it took me about 15 minutes and some playing around to get the sprites to start up in a particular position and to only start up once the 'start' button was pressed.
For the sprites i used the broadcast command so that when the start 'button/sprite' was clicked they would start up i used the forever command to wrap this up and put in the command when 'recieved start broadcast' go to x=90, y=-231. To get them to start moving in random directions i used the forever loop again but also used move 0.5 steps so it wouldn't be to fast and turn anti-clockwise 0.5 and clockwise 0.6. but to make it different for each sprite i would slowly change the direction so instead of 0.5 i would put 0.4 and for 0.6 i would put 0.3 or something.

The only other major thing i had problems with was the background changing costume and setting my bat sprite to the left hand side again when it reaches the end of the page on the right. The solution to this problem was to make a slightly different brown line to the very right which blended in well to the background. once the sprite went over this colour it broadcasted 'next which then sended a message to the backgrounds to go next. During the progress i use the hide command to hide my sprite and then use the set command to set my sprite back to x=110, y=-199. or some other number. after its set the next command is show and the process starts again. All this is wrapped in a forever loop.

nothing else has been that hard to manage most of my time was trying to set the above right.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Scratch assignment

For my Scratch assignment i had decided to make an action/arcade type game which involves a bat sprite like character to fly through a volcano maze to the other side where it escapes through a hole in the volcano which is represented in the way of light. Sounds easy enough however i added in some extra sprites in the form of flying lava rocks which fly around randomly and appear out of nowhere. once touched by these its game over! To add to this you are also surrounded by a wall of lava and like above if you run into the wall its game over.

To give it the effect of flying through the maze i added in a number of cave backgrounds. i think about 7-8. Other backgrounds include a game over 'you lose page' for when you run into the lava/rocks, a gameover 'YOU WON!' page for when you reach the light, and a start up page which has the options of just beginning and instructions!

To control the bat is quite simple. it flys slowly around automatically when the 'start' button is pressed however when the left mouse button is held down the bat flys faster and also changes costume. (to give it the effect of flying.)

Friday, September 21, 2007

parallel ports..and blog no.17

for my info on parallel ports i used the site http://computer.howstuffworks.com/parallel-port.htm
It had helpful information explaining what the parallel port is primarily used for.

*edit 1*
JUST INCASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW:
this is the site i've been working on http://ist94.wikispaces.com/Ports
its the ports page under motherboards.


signed louisa

DONE:

OK i've finally completed this wikispace and it was painful, luckily my fustration as well as stress level has dropped. =)
I also noticed one thing, it seems that the times on the websites are wrong! including blogger and wikispaces... i don't know how to change the time one them as well.. please keep that in mind sir whilst you're are marking that the times on the websites seem to be wrong/to where i currently am.

And 1 last thing i also found a good guide video to all those people who have no computer experience what so ever...
Its a guide to plugging your computer in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6TTuNiyeFA

**edit 1** see what i mean it says i posted at 4:12am WHY WOULD I BE UP AT THAT TIME!?!?! THE TIME IS WRONG =(