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September 25, 2007

Sloped Ball Bounce Acheived!

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Written by: Christopher McCulloh

I’ve got the sloped ball bounce working… for angles sloping down to the right at least. But that’s still an accomplishment. I’ll just have to adjust it a little bit for left sloping angles (I think).

Here it is for those of you who are curious.

As soon as I get the left sloping angles working, I’ll post a tutorial.

No source code yet, because I’ve been working really hard on this and haven’t had a chance to clean up all my crazy sloppy code. I’ll post it soon…



About the Author

Christopher McCulloh
E-Commerce developer at Finish Line Co-Author of HTML, XHTML and CSS All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies Graduated from IU with a Bachelors of Media Arts and Science and a Certificate in Applied Computer Science. Tech Editor for Building Facebook Applications for Dummies and Building Websites All-in-one for Dummies 2nd Edition. Creator and maintainer of the Status-bar Calculator Firefox Extension Three years professional experience in Java E-Commerce Development and four years professional experience with PHP for a combined total of seven years professional JavaScript/HTML/CSS experience




 
 

 
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3 Comments


  1. Okay, so now how hard will it be to get the ball itself to rotate around, so that it looks like it’s rolling? Does that make sense?


  2. I have no idea how hard that will be. I’m just sort of taking this all one thing at a time. Very valid question though… I think I’ll work on that next…


  3. [...] I’m in Technorati for my math posts on the ball rolling game (which have actually been my most successful posts to date in terms [...]



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