Time for action – making a racecar
Take as much time as you would like to create an image of the car. Make it so that it faces right. Then, once it's in the stack, we'll start adding the required functions to its script. A size of about 40 pixels across should be about right. Our sample car is also available on www.PacktPub.com. The following is a close-up image of what we're talking about, as seen in Photoshop:
Yours can be even better than that, if you like! Save it as a 24-bit PNG that has transparency. Ok, start your engines…:
Import the image as a control and place it somewhere in the white area of the
ImageDataTests
stack. Name itcar1
.Duplicate the image as many times as you like (the following script can handle up to 100 cars) and name each one as a sequence,
car2
,car3
, and so on.Arguably, the correct object-oriented way to proceed would be to place some functions on the images and some in the card or stack script, but for performance reasons, we'll put everything in the stack script...