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C++ Function to center image?

Started by dynamiteandy Apr 5, 2013 at 2:27 PM 1 replies 5.8k views

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Apr 5, 2013 at 2:27 PM

Hey,
So i'm working with a game engine that was wrote by charles kelly for his book programming 2D games.

His engine is rather good, however positioning images is rather bad as it does it as x = left corner and y = top of image
I don't want to do the maths to center an image in the position x,y i'd much rather write a function for it..

there's already functions for getting the center x and center y.

however how would i go about writing a function so that it takes int x, int y and moves the image so that its center is x,y?


// Return center X.
    virtual float getCenterX()      {return spriteData.x + spriteData.width/2*getScale();}

    // Return center Y.
    virtual float getCenterY()      {return spriteData.y + spriteData.height/2*getScale();}

// getScale() incase needed
// Return scale factor.
    virtual float getScale()    {return spriteData.scale;}

The image to above shows what im after..

red = current setting.

blue = what im after

SimonForsman

Apr 5, 2013 at 2:45 PM

I think this should work.


virtual void setCenteredPosition(float x, float y) {
    spriteData.x = x - spriteData.width/2*getScale();
    spriteData.y = y - sprideData.height/2*getScale();
}

dynamiteandy

Apr 5, 2013 at 2:51 PM

That did the trick, thank you! :)

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