Animate card dealing

[Galarun]

Hello programmers!

I have a cribbage card game programmed and I want to have cards move from one place to another as in dealing the cards to players' hands. I can't figure out how I would go around doing this. My first guess was to have a function that would move the card along a straight line (from the inital point to the final point) and have it displayed a certain intervals so it seems like it's moving. However, this seems a bit innefficient and I was wondering if anyone here knew of a better way to animate the cards going from one place to another. Any feedback would be nice as I am still a beginner programmer. Thanks a lot!

 

[hneal98]

Why would your suggestion seem inefficient? If you are animating, you are literally moving the object from one point to another and displaying at certain intervals, as you stated.

 

[Galarun]

Yeah you're right, but I was thinking there might be a way to literally move the card continuously across a line rather than display it at certain intervals along the way, but I might be wrong.

I'll do the straight line method first, but just curious, how do most people do something like this? Is there a better way?

Thanks for your replies,

 

[litton1]

This method is how all animation is done, even in the cartoons, computer animation is no different.

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[bam720]

I just ran into this and thought i'd share it with you...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/starterkit/#blackjack