====== Part 6 – Objects ======

Sprites in Orx are called Objects. These are the heart of games in Orx.

Our platform game is going to need a hero. Let's replace the default object in our game with a hero object.

We will need a graphic image for the hero. There's one available over in the Orx project in object assets folder: ''orx/tutorial/data/object''. Look for ''soldier.png'':

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Copy this file into your ''MyGame/data/texture'' folder.

Next, we need to create a graphic in the ''MyGame.ini'' config that knows about the soldier.png image:

<code=ini>
[HeroGraphic]
Texture        = soldier.png
</code>

Next, let's create an actual object that will use the HeroGraphic:

<code=ini>
[HeroObject]
Graphic  = HeroGraphic
Position = (-350, 100, 0)
Scale    = 2
</code>

When a HeroObject is created in code, he will be placed at co-ordinates -350, 100 on the screen (from the center) and scaled up 2x in size.

In the Init() function, replace the ''orxObject_CreateFromConfig("Scene");'' with our:

<code=cpp>
orxObject_CreateFromConfig("HeroObject");
</code>

Compile and run. You should get the following:

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So that's great! Now you might be wondering, how does ''HeroGraphic'' know how to get ''solder.png'' from the data/texture folder? The answer is in the ''[Resource]'' section:

<code=ini>
[Resource]
Texture = ../data/texture
</code>

We can specify multiple paths here and we will do so further down the track.

So good job! Next step is to animate our soldier.

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Next: [[en:guides:beginners:spritesheets_and_animation|Part 7 – Spritesheets and Animation]].

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