ballStart vector incorrect

[clickyquack]

Objects like the ghost and the lava from the volcano that are supposed to send the ball to the start (using the ballStart vector variable), don't always do that? It seems to depend on the overall shape of the level where the ball actually gets sent when interacting with lava or ghosts. In some testing cases, the ball was sent to the right spot, but most of the time not. Even the current ghost level suffers from this.

[SageAndromeda]

Is there something in the code resetting ballStart at some point it's not supposed to? That feels like it would be the obvious reason. The only other reason I can think of would be that the level generation works improperly

[adietz12]

@clickyquack can you explain how you caused it, I can't seem to replicate the issue in the ghost level

[SageAndromeda]

@adietz12 On the ghost level (8) the ball usually starts about 4 squares from the top

After the ghost hits it, it's only one square away from the top.

When running tests, the lava test and a few others also sends it to the wrong location. See issue #218

[SageAndromeda]

To fix it, go to level-generation.js and find the line ballStart = createVector(levelDict.ballPosition[0], levelDict.ballPosition[1]); (should be around line 603).
Change that to ballStart = createVector(ball.x, ball.y); and move it to the end of the loadLevelFromDict() function (under this.ctx.uniform1f(this.ctx.getUniformLocation(this.shaderProgram, "maxHeight"), this.maxHeight); near line 765).

Edit: This worked on level 8, but doesn't seem to fix the issues with testing