[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 13 ■ Animating Your Action Figure States: Setting the Image States Based on KeyEvent Processing
Figure 13-21. Testing the InvinciBagel character animation; showing here is the landing animation, using isFlipH
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Now that our arrow keys are invoking the primary run-leap-fly-land game play states, let’s test this new S and W
key logic that we put into place at the end of this chapter, so that we can invoke some of the less-often used (evade
bullet and jump over) sprite cel states, which will add even more diversity to this character animation which we have
put into place during this chapter using only around five dozen lines of code (two dozen in InvinciBagel.java and three
dozen in Bagel.java). As you can see in Figure 13-22 on the left side, when we use the S key the InvinciBagel character
turns sideways so that the bullets fly past (in front of) him, and on the right side of the screen shot, you can see that
when we press the W key, the InvinciBagel character will hurdle over objects!
Figure 13-22. Testing InvinciBagel character animation; shown here is the evade (left) animation, and jumping (right)
You have added quite a significant amount of “wow factor” into this game’s primary InvinciBagel character,
during this chapter covering animation. This will go a long way toward making this a popular game across age groups.
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