What is causing this behavior with the movement of Pong Ball in 2D? [closed]
- by thegermanpole
//edit after running it through the debugger it turned out i had the display function set to x,x...TIL how to use a debugger
I've been trying to teach myself C++ SDL with the lazyfoo tutorial and seem to have run into a roadblock. The code below is the movement function of my Dot class, which controls the ball. The ball seems to ignore yvel and moves with xvel to the bottom right. The code should be pretty readable, the rest of the relevant facts are:
All variables are names
Constants are in caps
dotrad is the radius of my dot
yvel and xvel are set to 5 in the constructor
The dot is created at x and y equal to 100
When I comment out the x movement block it doesn't move, but if i comment out the y movement block, it keeps on going down to the right.
void Dot::move()
{
if(((y+yvel+dotrad) <= SCREEN_HEIGHT) && (0 <= (y-dotrad+yvel)))
{
y+=yvel;
}
else
{
yvel = -1*yvel;
}
if(((x+xvel+dotrad) <= SCREEN_WIDTH) && (0 <= (x-dotrad+xvel)))
{
x +=xvel;
}
else
{
xvel = -1*xvel;
}
}
