Thread: Slot machine, animating the reels to spin

Hi, I really need help as to how to go about animating the reels on a slot machine.

Currently i store the images in a panel and when clicking on the spin button it will go through the images and stop after the counter as reached 19. However it just shows each fruit as it's going through the images and i'd like a spinning animation instead like a real slot machine and wondered how i would go about doing this?

Thank you for reading!

How do you want the animation look?
Have you tried drawing the image at different y positions over time to make it move in a vertical direction? You will need to do some algebra to compute the postion and to truncate the top of one image as it moves out of view and the next image comes into view.

Hi Norm, I'd like it to probably move vertically like you said, is this possible to do?
I have my images as labels stored in a panel and i've used random.next int to randomly generate through them at the moment.

By move I mean that you draw parts of the image starting at the top of the image and move down each time you draw it. Say first drawing shows first row of pixels to the end. Next drawing shows 5th row of pixels to the end, continuing down the rows until none left. The image would appear to move up.