Hlw do I make joints?

WorldLover

I'm making a gane and I want a stickman to be the main character. I didn't find a stickman the way I wanted them to be so I thought of making it myself. I made a function to draw the body parts (the stickman will be "stuffed", like the one you'll see if you search Stickman Hook on google, not like the ones made of black thin sticks) and now I have to animate it. I will put the stickman in all the positions I need and then draw them on the pixel display and save the image so I can make the animation. But it would be easier if I had a function to keep the legs and arms attached to the body while I rotated them. So is there a way to make a joint like this?

jstrout

Not built-in, no. You can do it with math, though. You need to (1) calculate where the joint position is, relative to the center of the body part image, for a given rotation using sin and cos; then (2) add that offset to the position of the parent joint to properly place the body part.

Jim

good