I am still trying to animate a pong ball, I have managed to get it to move in one direction but I want it to go in a random direction from the center of the screen, I am using openGL to develop this game, I also need some instructioon on collision detection

If you are using C or C++:



Lazy Foo has some nice 2D collision detection tutorials. Check Lesson 13 and Lesson 14. He uses SDL on those, but you don't need SDL to learn that.

here is a code snippet to animate pong ball


void PongBall(void)
{

glColor3f(0.0f,0.0f,0.0f);

glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
glVertex2i(m+380,n+280);
glVertex2i(m+400,n+280);
glVertex2i(m+400,n+300);
glVertex2i(m+380,n+300);
glVertex2i(m+380,n+280);
glEnd();

m++;
n++;

glColor3f(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f);

glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
glVertex2i(m+380,n+280);
glVertex2i(m+400,n+280);
glVertex2i(m+400,n+300);
glVertex2i(m+380,n+300);
glVertex2i(m+380,n+280);
glEnd();

glutSwapBuffers();
}