Wanted: Website Review Virtual Pizza (work in progress)

[pbryd]

I've got a website about homemade pizza

Homemade Pizza FREE Recipes Pizza Dough Kids Speciality Vegetarian Pizza recipe

And I'm also teaching myself some flash/actionscript so I thought I'd start with a little project to allow visitors to my pizza site to make their own 'virtual pizza'

I've managed to crack the code to allow the user to click on ingredients and then drag them to the pizza base.

I've only got two ingredients so far as I work on the code.

Let me know what you think.

Pizza Maker3

I'd like to add a virtual bin to delete ingredients and finally be able to print the finished pizza and a list of ingredients too.

All comments welcome.

Phil

 

[accelerator]

Nice site. I would move one of the pictures above the fold on the home page. Add a top 10 of pizza flavours list. Add an image of a pizza book on the home page to draw attn to your pizza store.

Good luck with it (Dominoes has aff programme too).

Rgds

 

[pbryd]

Thanks for your suggestions, once I've finished the virtual pizza maker I'll update the site and make a few changes.

Here's the virtual pizza as it stands so far.

Pizza Maker3

I've added a bin to which you can drag and drop toppings to remove them.

Phil

 

[squarerobot]

I think it would be better if you could drag the toppings straight from the left hand 'toppings list' to the pizza base (rather than clicking it, then dragging it from another location). I arrived at the page and assumed that was how it would work as that's how most drag and drop tools work.

All you need to do is place the draggable topping when the user hovers over the button instead of when they click it. Then position the topping over the button - instant draggable toppings

Also, surely your pizza needs a sauce on the base? It's not a proper pizza without the sauce

 

[pbryd]

I think it would be better if you could drag the toppings straight from the left hand 'toppings list' to the pizza base (rather than clicking it, then dragging it from another location). I arrived at the page and assumed that was how it would work as that's how most drag and drop tools work.

All you need to do is place the draggable topping when the user hovers over the button instead of when they click it. Then position the topping over the button - instant draggable toppings

Also, surely your pizza needs a sauce on the base? It's not a proper pizza without the sauce

Some good points there, I've altered the code using MOUSE_OVER rather than CLICK so the new ingredient appears and is instantly draggable like you suggested.

I've also upated the base with one with some tomato sauce on which I drew yesterday.

I've got the rest of the ingredients to design and add, but at the moment I'm just working on the code and getting that right.

updated version here

flashpizza6

Thanks for your comments/suggestions.

Phil

 

[squarerobot]

Just a couple of other comments for you...

Firstly, you may want to try and create your topping shapes in Flash itself rather than importing images created else where, that way they'll be vectors and won't have 'jaggies' around the outside where the transparency isn't quite right (it'll also decrease the file size and make it load quicker).

Secondly, I dragged some pepperoni onto the pizza, then remembered it needed cheese, but I can only add cheese to the top of the pizza on top of the pepperoni. It may be wise to allow each topping to only sit on a certain plane, i.e cheese is always on the bottom.

Looking good tho - can't wait to see the final polished version.

 

[pbryd]

Hi

Nice suggestion about drawing the ingredients straight in flash, I've did a rough pepperoni and it does indeed look much better.

I'm not sure how I'd achieve keeping the ingredients on their own layer so I'd like to just leave it as is for now and let the user add toppings in whatever order they like.

I've got the bin in the corner if they want to delete stuff.

Time to start working on the finished graphics I think.

Not a bad first project for someone new to flash and actionscript if I do say so myself ;-)

flashpizza6

 

[pbryd]

two more things I'd like to incorporate.

1. A random rotation of the ingredients added so it doesn't look to uniform.
2. a Bake It button to bake (darken) the pizza

I'd also like to have an array to hold the added toppings which can be printed with the final picture.

 

[pbryd]

Firstly, you may want to try and create your topping shapes in Flash itself rather than importing images created else where

I've just realised you can draw your objects in Illustrator and copy/paste them onto the stage in flash as vectors.

That'll make it easier, drawing in Flash is right pain.