Time for action – updating Game1 to update animated pieces
Modify the
Update()
method of the Game1 class by replacing the currentcase
statement for theGameState.Playing
state with:case GameStates.Playing: timeSinceLastInput += (float)gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.TotalSeconds; if (gameBoard.ArePiecesAnimating()) { gameBoard.UpdateAnimatedPieces(); } else { gameBoard.ResetWater(); for (int y = 0; y < GameBoard.GameBoardHeight; y++) { CheckScoringChain(gameBoard.GetWaterChain(y)); } gameBoard.GenerateNewPieces(true); if (timeSinceLastInput >= MinTimeSinceLastInput) { HandleMouseInput(Mouse.GetState()); } } break;
What just happened?
This method is very similar to its previous incarnation. In this instance, we check to see if there are outstanding animated pieces to process. If there are, UpdateAnimatedPieces()
is run. If no animated pieces currently...