Movement Stuck With Options of Up and Left...

2012-06-10 Thread Jack Maney
Everyone, First of all, thanks to Tobias Leech for so quickly answering my previous question on alpha values. Now, I'm trying to understand movement. I managed to hack together a simple, choppy, movement by teleportation app in which one can use ASDW to move a rectangle around in the screen.

Re: Movement Stuck With Options of Up and Left...

2012-06-10 Thread Jeffrey Palmer
Hi Jack, The problem is that an SDL::Rect stores it's x and y coordinates as integers. When you subtract a small value from the coordinate the new coordinate is truncated, which is why you are able to move in negative directions. When you add a small value the same thing happens, but the