Easier way to write if else statement

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Hello,

and welcome to the forum! Nice to have you here!

The command if() can be replaced with switch() (in this case).

Approach with a For-loop

In this case: You could also use a for-loop

for(int i=0; i<=lives; i++) 
    image(heart, (heartX1-15) + i*(heartWH+12) , heartY , heartWH, heartWH);

This for-loop

  • uses lives as upper bound (i<=lives), so that the number of loops is determined by the variable lives (how many hearts we see)
  • uses i to calculate the x position for each heart: (heartX1-15) + i*(heartWH+12). This can be simplified.

Remark

I would recommend to use image only with 3, not with 5 parameters. This slows things down. Avoid this everywhere in your game!

Instead apply resize() command once to “heart” in setup().

Chrisir

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