Animated win screen

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#1

In my version, the player is using some software to copy folders from the computer to their own floppy disk. I made an animated progress bar for the win screen, which is the same for all difficulty levels.

terminal_hacker

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#2

Very imaginative. Nice work!

#3

That’s really cool ! I suppose you used the Update() function ?

#4

Yes, only because I glanced at its entry in the Unity API that was linked in one of the previous videos.

Here’s a class that I made, whose GetUpdatedProgressBar method I call inside Update.

class DownloadGraphic
{
    private static string[] wheel = {"-", "\\", "|", "/"};

    private int wheelState;
    private int wheelIndex;

    private StringBuilder progressBar;

    private int sectionsRemaining;
    private int currSectionIndex;

    public DownloadGraphic(int totalDownloadSections)
    {
        progressBar = new StringBuilder();

        this.sectionsRemaining = totalDownloadSections;

        progressBar.Append('_', totalDownloadSections);
        progressBar.AppendLine();

        currSectionIndex = progressBar.Length;
        // Progress bar is empty (blank spaces) initially
        progressBar.Append(' ', totalDownloadSections + 1);

        wheelIndex = progressBar.Length;
        progressBar.AppendLine(wheel[wheelState]);

        progressBar.Append('=', totalDownloadSections);
    }

    public string GetUpdatedProgressBar()
    {
        if (!IsProgressComplete())
        {
            progressBar.Replace(' ', '#', currSectionIndex, 1);
            currSectionIndex += 1;

            int nextWheelState = (wheelState + 1) % wheel.Length;
            progressBar.Replace(wheel[wheelState], wheel[nextWheelState], wheelIndex, 1);
            wheelState = nextWheelState;

            sectionsRemaining -= 1;
        }
        return progressBar.ToString();
    }

    public bool IsProgressComplete()
    {
        return sectionsRemaining == 0;
    }
}
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#5

loving the old school vibes this gives me.

A bit curious about your code though. How come wheelState throwing up an error about being used without first being initialised?

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#6

I guess it isn’t being default initialized to 0. Might have to put wheelState = 0; in the constructor before it is used.

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#7

Really cool! I’m working on a project where I could use this type of animation. Do you have the Hacker class file I could take a look at?

#8

Nice job!
Code is also very easy to follow.

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