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Thread: what's not working? black window
Post: RE: what's not working? black window
| You never told anything to draw to screen. You only need one pygame.display.update or pygame.display.flip. I always recommend flip over update. Until you learn how to use update. Flip will be faster a... |
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Nov-16-2023, 05:56 AM |
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Thread: pygame, sprites, and rects
Post: RE: pygame, sprites, and rects
| That at best. There also so many other factors. Like when computer running other programs. When code has to do a lot of calculating. No program can guarantee fps. Pygame clock will idle fps down to 60... |
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Nov-02-2023, 12:52 AM |
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Thread: pygame, sprites, and rects
Post: RE: pygame, sprites, and rects
| You probably don't know what side effects it will cause.
If you had more events trigger. You would notice lag on input. |
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Windspar |
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Nov-01-2023, 03:23 AM |
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Thread: pygame, sprites, and rects
Post: RE: pygame, sprites, and rects
| Why are you using pygame.event.poll ? That does 1 event per frame. This will give you unwanted side effects.
running = True
while running:
# Event Loop
for event in pygame.event.get():
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Windspar |
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Oct-31-2023, 06:53 AM |
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Thread: pygame, sprites, and rects
Post: RE: pygame, sprites, and rects
| (Oct-25-2023, 04:25 AM)menator01 Wrote: Taking the following snippet, is it possible to create a pygame.Rect() and add it to a sprite group?
Been looking for awhile and not really found anything. Ma... |
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Oct-25-2023, 08:09 PM |
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Thread: Syntaxt error part 2
Post: RE: Syntaxt error part 2
| You just posted this in your original post. Since you are still attacking the same problem.
Are you just typing this in to idle ?
Show error. It tells you where to look.
You still need double undersc... |
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Windspar |
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Jun-12-2023, 06:25 PM |
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Thread: Pygame in 90 Minutes - For Beginners syntax issues
Post: RE: Pygame in 90 Minutes - For Beginners syntax is...
| Just a few typos. This is mainly use for testing.
# It double underscore.
if __name__ == '__main__':
# It lower case main to match your function.
main()Example
import pygame
def main():
#... |
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Windspar |
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Jun-08-2023, 07:38 AM |
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Thread: Surface and rectangle in pygame
Post: RE: Surface and rectangle in pygame
| (May-14-2023, 01:53 PM)Fabrizio_fg Wrote: but when i have to move the object we move only the rectangle, what it means?
We move only the rectangle, and the surface? Remain in the original position?
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Windspar |
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May-15-2023, 08:36 PM |
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Thread: Problem with colorkey
Post: RE: Problem with colorkey
| Converting the image first. Then set colorkey. You don't add colorkey to screen. Also you need to refresh screen.
It also better to use a path tool for joining paths. It makes it more portable.
from ... |
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Windspar |
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May-15-2023, 08:22 PM |
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Thread: platformer enemy animation
Post: RE: platformer enemy animation
| Tips.
1. You do not want to load images in sprite class. This will load the image again making another copy in memory.
2. Convert your images. Otherwise pygame will do this every turn. If it needs too... |
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Windspar |
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May-03-2023, 08:42 AM |
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Thread: Zooming on mouse position calculation
Post: RE: Zooming on mouse position calculation
| Example. Still needs a little work.
import pygame
class Zoom:
def __init__(self, area, speed, image):
# Multiply by 2 for smooth rect inflate.
self.speed = speed * 2
self.... |
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Windspar |
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Jan-01-2023, 03:55 AM |
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Thread: Pygame Help
Post: RE: Pygame Help
| Edit: Just realize this is an old thread.
Maybe this will give you some idea. Haven't done score card yet.
import pygame
import random
from itertools import count
from pygame.sprite import Group, Spr... |
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Windspar |
Game Development |
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Nov-25-2022, 03:14 AM |
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Thread: Tips on Converting BASIC to Pygame
Post: RE: Tips on Converting BASIC to Pygame
| First. You only want one main loop. Have it waiting as loop is not good. Look at fourth tip.
Second. Pygame has many predefine colors. Just use strings. "white", "black"
import pygame
for color in li... |
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Windspar |
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Oct-06-2022, 08:14 AM |
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Thread: finding local area in dictionary
Post: RE: finding local area in dictionary
| key in dict -> return bool |
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Windspar |
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Sep-02-2022, 03:10 AM |
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Thread: Text stacking on top of one another
Post: RE: Text stacking on top of one another
| Anchor in my code. Is using pygame rect position. "topleft", "midleft", "center", so on.
Here a more functional example.
import pygame
from pygame.sprite import Group, Sprite
from itertools import cou... |
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Windspar |
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Aug-30-2022, 12:42 AM |
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Thread: Text stacking on top of one another
Post: RE: Text stacking on top of one another
| I always try to avoid global. I keep refactoring my code to the smallest part. I always go for flexibility.
Example
import pygame
from pygame.sprite import Group, Sprite
from itertools import count
c... |
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Windspar |
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Aug-29-2022, 05:24 PM |
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Thread: how to use mouse to locate pixel co-ordinates
Post: RE: how to use mouse to locate pixel co-ordinates
| With pygame events you can do this.
for event in pygame.event.get()
if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
if event.button == 1:
print(event.pos) |
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Windspar |
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Aug-09-2022, 10:51 PM |
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Thread: Laggy Game Movement
Post: RE: Laggy Game Movement
| Here an example. I haven't finish it. Just let me know if this lag.
If this doesn't lag. Then something in your code is causing it.
import pygame
import random
# Why make frameworks. For you can use ... |
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Windspar |
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Jul-27-2022, 08:14 PM |
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Thread: Laggy Game Movement
Post: RE: Laggy Game Movement
| Delta is the time between pygame.display.flip. Since fps can and will vary. This is why you use pygame.time.Clock.
The clock.tick will always return in millisecond. You can simple * 0.001 to return in... |
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Windspar |
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Jul-20-2022, 02:54 AM |
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Thread: Laggy Game Movement
Post: RE: Laggy Game Movement
| By using pygame.time.get_ticks.
This is how I normal handle it. This handle three different ways. one shot timer, repeat timer, and trip counter timer.
class Ticker:
def __init__(self, ticks, inte... |
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Windspar |
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Jul-20-2022, 02:37 AM |
