[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 8 ■ Creating Your Actor Engine: Design the Characters for Your Game and Define Their Capabilities
Figure 8-12. Add eleven variables at the top of Hero class defining velocity, lifespan, damage, physics, collision
Before we add all 22 of your getter and setter methods, which would be 11 .get() and 11 .set() methods, to match
our new Hero class variables, let’s go back and finish our Hero() constructor method, and initialize these eleven
variables that we just added at the top of the Hero class.
Initializing the Sprite Control and Definition Variables in the Hero Constructor
Let’s give our Hero Actor objects (motion sprites) a lifespan of 1000 units, and set the other variables to zero, which
you can see that I have done using compound initialization statements to save eight lines of code. As you can see in
Figure 8-13, the code is error free, and the Java programming statements should take the following format:
lifespan = 1000;
vX = vY = damage = offsetX = offsetY = 0;
boundScale = boundRot = friction = gravity = bounce = 0;
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