[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 14 ■ Setting Up the Game Environment: Creating Fixed Sprite Classes Using the Actor Superclass
You can also “flip” large props, creating some very cool effects. Create an iPV1 declaration and instantiation, as
seen in Figure 14-31, and create a PropV object, which will mirror the moss rock, along the X axis. This can be seen on
the right side of Figure 14-30. We’ve made a lot of progress in this chapter using fixed sprite Prop class capabilities.
Figure 14-31. Instantiate an iPV1 PropV object, add it to the root Scene Graph, and add it to a CurrentCast List
Summary
In this fourteenth chapter, we created our fixed sprite “prop” classes that allow us to design our game scenes and the
fixed objects that our motion sprite Actor objects will interact with. We first created the Prop class, which extends
the Actor class that we created during Chapter 8. We used the .setTranslateX() and .setTranslateY() methods to take
the xLocation and yLocation parameters in the constructor method to position the ImageView on the Stage, similar
to what we did with the .moveInvinciBagel() class, only with fixed sprites a move is only made once, inside of the
constructor method, to position the prop in the Scene on the Stage.
Next we created even more complicated PropH and PropV classes, which in addition to positioning the
fixed sprites in the Scene, also mirror them automatically, around the Y axis (PropH) and X axis (PropV). We also
created a PropB (B stands for Both) class that will automatically mirror fixed sprite Image assets around both the
X and Y axes.
Next, we learned how to implement these Prop classes by declaring, instantiating, and adding (to the JavaFX
Scene Graph as well as to the CastingDirector object) them inside of our InvinciBagel.java primary game design class.
We learned how to position our fixed sprites on the screen, as well as how to create seamless mirrored tiling effects,
and tested our new Prop classes to make sure they were ready for use in designing game play levels.
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