Creating a landscape

As the final stage of this project we will create a hill for the targets to sit on. The landscape will have a diagonal slope; we have to change the parabola trajectory to shoot at different points on the hill. The finished game will look like the following screenshot:

Creating a landscape

Engage thrusters

We could manually draw landscapes as sprites. But if we want to create many different levels, it could take a lot of work. Instead, we will make a drawing tool to create the hill.

  1. First, create a copy of the cannonball by right-clicking on the sprite in the Sprites view and choosing duplicate, shown as follows:
  2. Click on the i button on the copied sprite ...

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