Need to rotate and move images in processing? - processing

Question

I am fast approaching several deadlines for my highschool graduation project so any advice you can give would be great. My project is to code a movie. The idea is to use processing to move the characters like tokens and also use code to animate things like rain and fire. Right now I am finding it very difficult to move images and/or rotate them. This is a big hurtle for my project. The current code I have for this is butchered and complicated but here it is.
Image of leading lady, Radial: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x3gvendnaeftapj/radialoutlinel.png
/*
Radialrolling
*/
PImage img; // Declare variable "a" of type PImage
float ballX = 10;
float ballY = 200;
float h = 300;
//create a variable for speed
float speedY = 2; // spped set to 0 in order to test rotating. Necessary for rolling motion
float speedX = 0.;
void setup() {
size(800,800);
smooth();
noStroke();
background(0, 0, 0);// Load the image into the program
// change the mode we draw circles so they are
// aligned in the top left
ellipseMode(CORNER);
img = loadImage("radialoutlinel.png");
}
void RadialRoll(){
rotate(0);//if this is anything but 0 ball will appear of screen
image(img, ballX, ballY, h, h); //create a continuos rotation using the new fun
//nctions in the draw things
}
void draw() {
//clear the background and set the fill colour
background(0);
fill(255);
//draw the circle in it's current position
// ellipse(ballX, ballY, h,h);
//add a little gravity to the speed
speedY = speedY + 0;
speedX = speedX + .02;
ballX = ballX + speedX;
RadialRoll();
if (ballX > width - h) {
// set the position to be on the floor
ballX = width - h;
// and make the y speed 90% of what it was,
// but in the opposite direction
speedX = speedX * -1;
//switch the direction
//speedY = speedY;
}
if (ballX > width - h) {
// set the position to be on the floor
ballX = width - h;
// and make the y speed 90% of what it was,
// but in the opposite direction
speedX = speedX * -1;
//switch the direction
//speedY = speedY;
}
else if (ballX <= 0) {
// if the ball hits the top,
// make it bounce off
speedX = -speedX;
}
if (ballY > height - h) {
// set the position to be on the floor
ballY = height - h;
// and make the y speed 90% of what it was,
// but in the opposite direction
speedY = speedY * -1;
//switch the direction
//speedY = speedY;
}
else if (ballY <= 0) {
// if the ball hits the top,
// make it bounce off
speedY = -speedY;
}
}
How can I move images on screen and rotate them with little hassle?
Thank you very much.
-TheIronHobo

Answer 1

First when you look at rotate() function it take radians (values from 0 to TWO_PI) as argument so when you want fluent rotation use something like this
rotate(counter*TWO_PI/360);
Where counter could be integer value increased in every draw() loop. But if you just add this to you code image will be rotating around point [0,0] (upper left corner) and you will not see image for 1/4 of the rotation. To better understanding this you should read this TUTORIAL then you could start with basic rotation:
PImage img;
int counter = 1;
void setup() {
size(800, 800);
smooth();
background(0, 0, 0);
img = loadImage("radialoutlinel.png");
imageMode(CENTER); //you can change mode to CORNER to see the difference.
}
void draw() {
background(0);
fill(255);
counter++;
translate(width/2, height/2);
rotate(counter*TWO_PI/360);
image(img, 0, 0, 300, 300);
}
Then if you want also move image from left to right side you will just adjust translate() first parameter.