I won't be needing physics, any way to move the player without it?

[SlimTim]

I realized that I need to set the velocity of the player in order to move, but that requires adding physics to the player which is pointless since no physics is used in the game.

 

Is there a way to emulate velocity without adding physics?

[ram64]

Maybe add in the update loop something like:

var xVel = 5; // Velocity on the X directionplayer.x += xVel; 

Or if you want to have acceleration also:

 

Define the acceleration and set the velocity to 0

var xAcc = 0.5; // Acceleration on X axisvar xVel = 0; // Initial velocity is 0

And in the update loop:

xVel += xAcc;player.x += xVel;

[valueerror]

player.x += 20;     will move it  20px aproximate 60 times a second.. so 120px in one second..

 

to move left you type player.x -= 20;

 

 

i didn't test it but i think it should work as expected... 

[SlimTim]

Made it work, thanks.