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pygame, help with making a function to detect collision between player and enemy. - Kris1996 - Feb-14-2020 Hi guys. I am making a game in pygame, where you play as a little spaceship and your mission is to shoot aliens. I am struggling on making a function, when the spaceship hits one of the enemies, i want the game to be game over. I have made a collision function for the missile, when it hits the enemy, the enemy respawn and you get + 1 in score and it works fine, but i am struggling with this. Hope you can understand my code, but ask if there is any questions. I have used a long time on the game so i hope someone can help me! Best regards. Kris. Here is my code: https://pastebin.com/5V3d1hTc RE: pygame, help with making a function to detect collision between player and enemy. - michael1789 - Feb-14-2020 Why aren't you using the pygame sprite class? Pygame has collision detection built in. It would be simple, like this for example. hit = pygame.sprite.spritecollide(player, enemies, True) if hit: game_over()So, the answer is to use the Sprite class and sprite groups. RE: pygame, help with making a function to detect collision between player and enemy. - metulburr - Feb-15-2020 I would also suggest a restructuring for a player class and an enemy class to help make things more organized. My tutorial series 1-9 actually uses a space shooter type game with similar properties. Regarding your issue, specifically this one. RE: pygame, help with making a function to detect collision between player and enemy. - Kris1996 - Mar-07-2020 Hey again. Sorry for the long answer. I have been a little busy the last couple of weeks. Thanks for the answer, i would try and read about classes in my Python book and look into it after. :D |