i tried
so for this one i ended up making this floating eyeball angel thing that generates some cryptic dialogue in a manner reminiscent of 2d indie game boss fight interactions. (click the screen).
the background is very similar to the one i made for my week 2 assignment, nothing special there. I used frameCount to animate the ominous red rays eminating from the eyeball. The slightly more tricky part was getting them to actually follow the eye as it oscillates, though it was pretty easy to figure out.
as for the eyeball itself, i implemented some rotation to give it some depth, and had it oscillate via a sin() function, for which i referred back to the slides and studied the example projects provided. i think he’s my favorite part since it turned out exactly as i intended.
//eyeball & bg animation settings
push();
let pos = 200 + sin(angle) * amp; //sin oscillation
angle += 1;
translate(100, 0);
strokeWeight(0.5);
stroke(0);
noFill();
let x = 300;
let y = pos;
let pattern = 10;
if (frameCount % 8 > 6) {
pattern = 29;
} else if (frameCount % 8 > 4) {
pattern = 24;
} else if (frameCount % 8 > 2) {
pattern = 19;
} else {
pattern = 17;
}
while (pattern > 1 && pattern < 1000) {
strokeWeight(1);
circle(x, y, pattern);
pattern += 14;
}
//eyeball
strokeWeight(1);
stroke(255);
fill(0);
circle(300, pos, 95);
rotate(-5);
ellipse(262, pos + 27, 40, 55);
ellipse(265, pos + 27, 25, 35);
stroke(255);
strokeWeight(2);
fill(255, 0);
rotate(15);
ellipse(333, pos - 100, 120, 20);
pop();
the generated text was incredibly frustrating to figure out on a short notice, especially since i insisted upon having it animated in a typewriter style. I’ll be honest, I still don’t fully understand what I did, especially since I stayed up all night figuring it out after having deleted all my code by accident (would not recommend). Here I had a friend teach me some tricks, as well as ask AI mode on google to help explain how text generation works, however i did all the actual coding myself. My friend really saved my life, though.
i was thinking of adding some interactive dialogue options, but thats for another time perhaps.
im so tired bro
