My PVZ Development Log

My-Plants-vs-Zombies Development Log #2

I just finished my last final exam yesterday so hey, I finally got free time to work on this lil project :P

Just to recap, what I did in the first day are basically setting up a bunch of background images like the images for the lawn and the toolbar. The entire game interface is created so that’s a good start for me.

What I did afterward are following:

Implemented selection and dragging of the plants
Enabling the plants to be “planted” on the ground
Iteratively display the picture set in the res folder to create the waving animation of the plants
Created a starting menu of the game
Randomly creating Sunshine, and…
Display the random Sunshine.

I defined the own structure like

struct sunshineBall {
	int x, y; // Coordinates for the X and Y Coord of sunshine when falling
	int frameIndex; // Index for the current displaying picture
	int destY; // Y-Coord for the destination of the falling sunshine
	bool used; // Using or not
	int timer; //
};

which is exactly something we learned in CS135. I’m not gonna lie, struct are indeed very useful and convenient.

One of the confusing topic is the pointer variable and memories, I would’ve to read the textbook to understand what it does lol.