game-development

[heady ginkgo]

Example menu.py is the menu: will check if you have any game/saves
If none it will create a new file and save.
Else it will read the data from save file.txt and launch the game

Im trying to find answers for this

[heavy pelican]

Hello, I wonder- Is there any tutorial how to make your virtual assistant play checkers board game?- like you put board under the camera, python detects every move and make his own moves but just in computer, but i play in real life.

[dawn quiver]

import sys
import time 
from pygame import mixer
import os

os.system("cls")

def typewrite(string):

    mixer.init()
    typeSound = mixer.Sound("TypeWriteSoundEffect.wav")
    typeSound.set_volume(0.2) 
    typeSound.play(loops =-1)    

    for i in string:
        sys.stdout.write(i)
        sys.stdout.flush()
        time.sleep(0.06)
   
typewrite(f'''

    ░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐘▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░   
 
    Welcome adventurer, what is your name?
    ''')
username = input()  

typewrite("Alright " + username + ", let the adventure begin!")

How do I make typewrite stop after first f''' is done and afterwards it resumes

[eternal vessel]

can't you just do typeSound.stop()?

[heady ginkgo]

What does typesound do again?

[eternal vessel]

We fixed it, we're chillin

[dawn quiver]

typewrite("\n    Alright " + username + ", there is a tough journey ahead, are you sure you want to continue?".lower())
    typeSound.stop()
    userContinue = input()
    typeSound.play()

    if userContinue == "y" or "yes":
        typewrite("Good luck on your journey adventurer!")

    elif userContinue == "n" or "no":
        typewrite("I see, this journey is not for you.")
        break
    
    else: 
        typewrite("Please answer with either yes or no.")
```  why doesnt this work

The result^^

[heavy pelican]

Hello, I wonder- Is there any tutorial how to make your virtual assistant play checkers board game?- like you put board under the camera, python detects every move and make his own moves but just in computer, but i play in real life.

[grim abyss]

Computer Vision...

What is Nvidia's implementation...?

Oh right, it's...CUDA

I think?

[grim abyss]

!pypi fastai

[frank field]

fastai v2.7.10

fastai simplifies training fast and accurate neural nets using modern best practices

[grim abyss]

^ has a cv library too...

[slender trench]

or "yes" is always True because you need to do or userContinue == "yes"

[eternal vessel]

!or

[frank field]

When checking if something is equal to one thing or another, you might think that this is possible:

# Incorrect...
if favorite_fruit == 'grapefruit' or 'lemon':
    print("That's a weird favorite fruit to have.")

While this makes sense in English, it may not behave the way you would expect. In Python, you should have complete instructions on both sides of the logical operator.

So, if you want to check if something is equal to one thing or another, there are two common ways:

# Like this...
if favorite_fruit == 'grapefruit' or favorite_fruit == 'lemon':
    print("That's a weird favorite fruit to have.")

# ...or like this.
if favorite_fruit in ('grapefruit', 'lemon'):
    print("That's a weird favorite fruit to have.")

[scenic dome]

What if the most crazy "out-there" Python game project you have ever seen? (unfinished projects are OK)

[vagrant saddle]

that one is impressive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJfUvZjSyys

[scenic dome]

Woah those graphics, the style is beautiful! It's hard to describe, like half cartoon half realistic but it works well together.

[vagrant saddle]

and that one https://grimfang-studio.org/games/theTravelingFox.html

[scenic dome]

How did they animalte the characters? With Blender?

[vagrant saddle]

i guess so, but it's also possible to re use free mocap files

[scenic dome]

Mocap?

[vagrant saddle]

motion capture files

[scenic dome]

Got it! That is a useful game asset indeed!

[molten path]

Do you have a link to source code?

[snow hill]

https://github.com/harfang3d/car-simulator

sure!

[molten path]

Thanks!

[versed plank]

What's that

[glass knoll]

is there any good minecraft python interupters

[snow hill]

https://geekflare.com/python-game-development-libraries-frameworks/

[lyric pawn]

First time switching from a straight road to a curve for the robot cars 😄

https://github.com/harfang3d/car-simulator

[dawn quiver]

import testingmodule1
import os

os.system("cls")

testingmodule1.typewrite(f'''

    ░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐘▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░

Welcome adventurer, what is your name?
''')     

testingmodule1.typeSound.stop()
userName = input()  
testingmodule1.typeSound.play()
    
testingmodule1.typewrite("\nAlright " + userName.capitalize() + ", there is a tough journey ahead, are you sure you want to continue?\n")

testingmodule1.typeSound.stop()
userContinue = input()  
testingmodule1.typeSound.play() 

while True: 
    if userContinue.lower() in ("y", "yes"):
        testingmodule1.typewrite("Good luck on your journey adventurer!")

    elif userContinue.lower() in ("n", "no"):
        testingmodule1.typewrite("I see, this journey is not for you.")
        break
    
    else: 
        testingmodule1.typewrite('''Please answer with either yes or no.\nDo you still want to continue?''')
        continue
    break

How do i stop it from looping

[dawn quiver]

i fix it

[eternal vessel]

Noice

[feral mesa]

i wish you good luck well you are going in good way

[lyric pawn]

A bit of improvement today ! Cars do not appear to be buggy and have a stable speed

[scenic dome]

What physics engine are you using?

[dusty crown]

anybody familiar with pygame please ping me

i only need help at an introductory level

[eternal vessel]

I am

[dusty crown]

thank god okay one sec lemme pull a screenshot

[eternal vessel]

Okay

[dusty crown]

how come there aren't any black lines to split the yellow rectangel? The black lines should be equally distributed throughout the yellow area

[eternal vessel]

Are you talking about the one big rectangle at the start

[dusty crown]

ye

[eternal vessel]

is it because of the extra 4?

[dusty crown]

in line 27?

[eternal vessel]

yeah what is the 4 for?

[dusty crown]

that's to make the line thinner

[eternal vessel]

Oh okay

[eternal vessel]

Yeah I normally use images so I forgot that existed

[dusty crown]

ye

So do you know what else might bethe problem?

[eternal vessel]

I'm confused

[dusty crown]

whats up?

[eternal vessel]

How does it work for everything but the start?

Oh wait

I'm dumb

[dusty crown]

exactly my question bro

[dusty crown]

ye??

whats the problem??

[eternal vessel]

I read your code wrong

[dusty crown]

oh

[eternal vessel]

Is it because you do 50+i

so it skips the start?

[dusty crown]

oh that might be the case

lemme try removing it and ill get back to u

[dusty crown]

i mean at least there's something in the start now 😂

[eternal vessel]

well you still need to increment with the i

[dusty crown]

ye

[eternal vessel]

just change the starting x coord

[dusty crown]

what would i change the x coord to?

[eternal vessel]

like the size of one step

that you have in the for loop

[dusty crown]

what line num u talking about?

[eternal vessel]

the 2nd floop

[dusty crown]

oh ok

[dusty crown]

so what exactly wouild i change??

sorry for being slow btw just learned pygame today in class

[eternal vessel]

for 2nd for loop

You pretty much just start the black line range by too much

[dusty crown]

YOOOOO IT WORKS

[dusty crown]

🙏

Thank you my g

[eternal vessel]

When I said step I meant you had to lower it by 50

[dusty crown]

Ohhh

[eternal vessel]

since that's the size of it

[dusty crown]

i see

if you aren't busy do you think you can help me with the next step which is adding orange and then adding the black lines to that

i can do it on my own for now but if i run into a problem i could ping or dm u if u want

[eternal vessel]

Sorry for late response I just ate dinner

[eternal vessel]

Sure I don't mind

[dusty crown]

dw its fine

[dusty crown]

thank you 🙏

[eternal vessel]

though it shouldn't be a problem, since it's just vertical now

[dusty crown]

about that

[eternal vessel]

lol

[dusty crown]

wait sorry scratch that

[eternal vessel]

Okay

[dusty crown]

size of screen is 800x600 btw

[eternal vessel]

Yeah I saw from previous ss

[dusty crown]

oh yea

[eternal vessel]

You aren't incrementing the y coord

[dusty crown]

K ima fix that rn

is the first line of my for loop okay tho?

[dusty crown]

its changing the whole thing to orange it looks like

[eternal vessel]

I think so

[dusty crown]

oh damn ok

[eternal vessel]

Y cord must be off

[dusty crown]

Hm one sec ima try fixing it

[dusty crown]

no matter what im changing it to it does this same thing

[eternal vessel]

Are you incrementing it?

[dusty crown]

wait by y coord, do you mean the second number or fourth number?

[dusty crown]

Yea im doing the plus i

[eternal vessel]

for which one?

[dusty crown]

bottom line

[eternal vessel]

Mb was doing something

[dusty crown]

its fine

[eternal vessel]

Okay well you might need to move the y coord up so it isn't covering

[dusty crown]

yea but im a little confused as to what the y coord is now 💀

is it 0, 500, 100, or 210?

[eternal vessel]

x, y, width, height

so try 400 instead of 500

[dusty crown]

oh damn im si dumb

ight

getting closer

[eternal vessel]

Noice

You're gonna have to put it on the top or bottom though

[dusty crown]

ill put it on top

so i change x now right?

to put it at the top

[eternal vessel]

The Y is up and down

X is left and right

[dusty crown]

jesus christ

ignore i ever said that 😂

[eternal vessel]

But you also have to account for the width/height

[dusty crown]

ye

[eternal vessel]

so how it works, if you have the coords set to 100, 100 then whatever you put the width/height it adds to it and draws the square so [100, 100, 100, 100] is a square placed at 100,100 that's 100pixels wide and tall

[eternal vessel]

got it placed right noice

[dusty crown]

i see

ye question is asking for it to be 100x50 btw

[eternal vessel]

It was just an example

[dusty crown]

ok so all i have to do is get the orange to extend all across

[dusty crown]

ohh ok

[eternal vessel]

so now try and increment it like you did before

[dusty crown]

ight

its good i fixed it

so now for the black liens

[eternal vessel]

Yep

[eternal vessel]

gotta make it go down and not to the side

[dusty crown]

Right

[dusty crown]

so the only thing that decides if something is moving from side to side or up/down is the x and y variables

[eternal vessel]

yeah

[dusty crown]

so im assuming i have to do something about my x to make it go down

[eternal vessel]

The Y makes it go down

[dusty crown]

right i keep getting that mixed up

[eternal vessel]

lol

[dusty crown]

so instead of 100, I'd change it to what

500?

[eternal vessel]

0 maybe

[dusty crown]

ight im change it to that

[eternal vessel]

I think we were talking about different things

[dusty crown]

oh shit ok

[eternal vessel]

for i in range(0, 400, 50):
    pygame.draw.rect(screen, BLACK, [0, 100+i, 100, 50], 4)```That might work

[dusty crown]

Ight one sec

oh thats super close

just need the lines to be a litle thinner

and have same thickness where it borders the red and blue

[eternal vessel]

yep

[dusty crown]

now i just need it to be it a little more thick at the bordering colours

which i am not sure on how to do

[eternal vessel]

I think it's because when it makes the black square outline side-by-side it has the size of 2 if you know what I mean

[dusty crown]

yea

so how to solve?

[eternal vessel]

I'm trying it rn and Im confused lol

[dusty crown]

yea this shit confusing ong

[eternal vessel]

I know why it's doing this

[dusty crown]

yea?

[eternal vessel]

# Orange Row
for i in range(0, 400, 50):
    pygame.draw.rect(screen, ORANGE, [0, 100, 100, 50+i])
# Black Lines
for i in range(0, 400, 50):
    pygame.draw.rect(screen, BLACK, [0, 100, 100, 50+i], 4)```

Before we incremented the width

After we incremented the Y cord instead of the height

so they were different

[dusty crown]

😌

Ok so now that we did the left side, the right side should be a lot easier and faster to do

[eternal vessel]

Have fun with the other two 👍

[dusty crown]

yea

[eternal vessel]

Yeah you just gotta changing the starting coordinates

[dusty crown]

yup

[dusty crown]

sorry to bother but im not sure why this isn't working? I changed the coords and everything but its still not showing up for some reasno

[eternal vessel]

Because your range isn't for loop range isn't valid

You have the starting number as 700 and the ending number 400 and it adds 50

so it doesn't ever loop

[dusty crown]

Oh shit

for i in range(0, 400, 50)

should i do that

[eternal vessel]

yep

[dusty crown]

Let's goo

This is the last part of my homework

[eternal vessel]

It seems you're going to need a white background

instead of black so you can draw the black outlines

and then just make a pure black rectangle on the bottom

[dusty crown]

i could also just leave the bottom blank right? cuz its automatically black anyway

[eternal vessel]

or make the entire rectangle white that covers all of middle then make the black outlines

[eternal vessel]

Yeah you could just leave it, and make one big white rectangle that covers mid

[dusty crown]

Yes I wanna do this

unless you think thtas the more difficult way of doing it

ima just starty by adding the hwite

[eternal vessel]

Their not really much different

[dusty crown]

oh ok

[eternal vessel]

But I'd say just making a white square and then the black outlines is probably easier

so you can keep the black rectangle on the bottom

[dusty crown]

yea im going w/ that

[dusty crown]

so far so good

[eternal vessel]

Noice

[dusty crown]

now for the outlines

[dusty crown]

oh shit i just realized it said to make each white space 25x25 pixel size

oh well

gotta fix that now

@eternal vessel im in a pinch

[eternal vessel]

Okay

[dusty crown]

theres a hint here

[eternal vessel]

He did give a hint that requires a double for loop

yes

[dusty crown]

ye

[eternal vessel]

Also it'd be black with the outline wouldn't it?

[dusty crown]

Yeah

[eternal vessel]

What's it look like with that

[eternal vessel]

Oh nice you got it

[dusty crown]

oh no thats not my work 😂

[eternal vessel]

Oh

that's what it's supposed to look like

[dusty crown]

thats just what the teacher showed for what we need to have

[dusty crown]

yea

[dusty crown]

mine is still at this tho

[eternal vessel]

I meant change that for loop color to BLACK and give it the outline

[dusty crown]

ohh ok one sec

it just gives tis

[dusty crown]

ohh wait u want me to give it a black outline first?

before adding the white?

[eternal vessel]

You don't need a forloop for the white background part

[dusty crown]

oh damn

[eternal vessel]

you just need a large white rectangle I thought you already had that

[dusty crown]

ight

[dusty crown]

No because i did this when the instructions asked for this

so now i have to change it to 25x25

[eternal vessel]

yep

[dusty crown]

and this is as far as im getting with that

[eternal vessel]

^?

Oh you're doing white squares while the background is black

[dusty crown]

how would you make it a 25x25 rectnagular white background without a loop?

[dusty crown]

yes

[eternal vessel]

I was thinking of it has white background and make black outlined squares

I guess they'd both work

[dusty crown]

so do u want me to go with my way or your way?

[eternal vessel]

we can do yours

[dusty crown]

ok thank u

[eternal vessel]

Holdup I gotta go do something

[dusty crown]

Ok

as soon as this is done I am going to celebrate

[dusty crown]

ok ima just go with this idc if the teacher wants it 25x25 i need to get this done

better than submitting late

ight

@eternal vessel this as far as im able to come but i have no choice but to call it a day

[eternal vessel]

I am back

[dusty crown]

if you see this please give me instructions on what to do next

yo

no way

[eternal vessel]

I got back a couple minutes ago

[dusty crown]

ight i can still stay but im going to have to speedrun

[dusty crown]

ight my man

[eternal vessel]

when's it due

[dusty crown]

8:45

[eternal vessel]

Oh gosh

23 min?

[dusty crown]

i just need the black lines bro

[dusty crown]

yea bro

[eternal vessel]

I mean to take the easy way out you could just repeat that process over and over again lol

till you cover the whole white square

[dusty crown]

do u know a way where i could just use for loops instead?

[dusty crown]

i will keep this in mind if all gets too desperate tho

[eternal vessel]

Alright

Lemme think

[dusty crown]

ok bro

no rush

[eternal vessel]

lmao

Crap I got something

[dusty crown]

YOYoo

[eternal vessel]

but it isn't how it needs to be

[dusty crown]

what is it??

Ok

im all ears

or eyes

[eternal vessel]

for i in range(0, 400, 25):
    for j in range(0, 600, 25):
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, BLACK, [100, 100, 25+j, 25+i], 4)```

[dusty crown]

is it possible to get these lines to be a little thinner

like this

[eternal vessel]

Yeah that's what the problem is

[dusty crown]

oh ok

Honestly tho

im still very happy with this

I think I will submit it here

[eternal vessel]

It's because the rectangles and big squares aren't aligned

I think

[dusty crown]

oh damn

[eternal vessel]

for i in range(0, 600, 25):
    for j in range(0, 600, 25):
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, BLACK, [100, 100, 25+j, 25+i], 2)```

[dusty crown]

this is what i did for the squares

[eternal vessel]

2 looks better to me

I think it's due to the black outlines

[dusty crown]

this is what i did for the squaresyea

[eternal vessel]

Might want to just play it safe and go with this

[dusty crown]

honestly

yea

[eternal vessel]

It's just off a couple pixels

[dusty crown]

yea

but thank you man

i never would have come this far if it were not for you

[eternal vessel]

Np lol

[dusty crown]

i wouldve been stuck on adding the yellow if it weren't for you

[eternal vessel]

I suck apparently, but it's just because I haven't tried this drawing crap before

[dusty crown]

you dont even know me and you are helping me like a brother
what my teacher teaches in several classes is nothing compared to what you taught me in a few hours

[eternal vessel]

I could probably do this quite easily with each blank color being an image

[dusty crown]

nice man

[dusty crown]

if ur crap at this then idek what that makes me 😂

But anyway

[eternal vessel]

welp wasn't able to get that 100% to something I should be able to do lol

[dusty crown]

idk what shit you going through but whatever it is i hope you come out stronger than ever before

[dusty crown]

until next time my brother

i will never forget you

[eternal vessel]

yup

lol

[potent ice]

If this grid doesn't change often you can also draw it to separate surface once (or when it updates) and just blit that to the screen. It makes things a lot less heavy

[eternal vessel]

Yeah but it seems his work was just to make the patterns easily

[potent ice]

So you are only drawing it once? 🙂

[lyric pawn]

I am using Bullet Physics engine which is integrated into the Harfang 3D engine (which is the Python framework I am using for the whole project).
If you need more information about the project you can check the Readme and the code here : https://github.com/harfang3d/car-simulator

[scenic dome]

Thanks.

[spiral bramble]

\

[fallow glade]

\

[eternal vessel]

Yeah

it's not even in a while loop

[dawn quiver]

Hello future programmers I am looking forward to help you giving challenges that will help you to upgrade your abilities if you are interested dm me it is totally free

[eternal vessel]

Sure I'll take some challenges

[mild orbit]

i am trying to install pygame but every time i do, i keep getting an error, this isnt my first time downloading pygame on mac, but it is the first time I have gotten an error, note I am using the following command to install pygame: python3 -m pip install -U pygame --user

[winter bone]

not sure if it falls here, its a simple thing im new to coding

but could someone help me

`choice1 = input("Welcome to Hamza's rock, paper, scissor game!\n Type Rock,Paper, or Scissor to begin. ")
choice1NEW = choice1.lower()

print(f"Your choice was {choice1NEW}")

if choice1NEW == rock:
print(rock)
I have the variable rock as a hand symbol doing the rock
but every time i run the code it doesnt print rockheres the full code:import random

`rock = '''
_______
---' )
()
()
()
---.(_)
'''

paper = '''
_______
---' )
______)
____)
)
---.)
'''

scissors = '''
_______
---' )
_)
______)
()
---.()
'''

choice1 = input("Welcome to rock, paper, scissor game!\n Type Rock,Paper, or Scissor to begin. ")
choice1NEW = choice1.lower()

print(f"Your choice was {choice1NEW}")

if choice1NEW == rock:
print(rock)

elif choice1NEW == paper:
print(paper)
else:
print(scissors)

PCnum = random.randint(0,2)

if PCnum == 0:
print(rock)
if choice1NEW == paper:
print("You won!!")
elif choice1NEW == rock:
print("You drew...")
elif choice1NEW == scissors:
print("You lost :(")

elif PCnum == 1:
print(paper)
if choice1NEW == paper:
print("You drew.. :/")
elif choice1NEW == rock:
print("You lost :(..")
elif choice1NEW == scissors:
print("You Won!!!")

elif PCnum == 2:
print(scissors)
if choice1NEW == paper:
print("You lost..:(")
elif choice1NEW == rock:
print("You won!!!")
elif choice1NEW == scissors:
print("You drew..:/")`

[mild orbit]

would it be alright if i put this into my python to mess with it, to see what is wrong with it?

if not, i think you need an else at the end of it, not sure though, it has been a while since i did that

[mild orbit]

^

[frank field]

Hey @soft zenith!

You either uploaded a .txt file or entered a message that was too long. Please use our paste bin instead.

[soft zenith]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/iwonoyezug
connect 4 with pygame

probably ugly and inefficient but it works

[scenic dome]

Anyone else interested in making the google "Jerry Lawson" game editor?

Lol it's so fun to control multiple characters and brick-breaker paddles at once. Get Goomba-stomped by a vertical tower of 4 Marios!

[frank field]

Hey @rotund smelt!

It looks like you tried to attach a Python file - please use a code-pasting service such as https://paste.pythondiscord.com

[rotund smelt]

Hi everyone, I'm currently working on my game that I made with tkinter ^^

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/wejikugipo

There are no many things that works, but I am working on it

[rotund smelt]

you have also the link here

[scenic dome]

How does tkinter compare with pyGame?

[dawn quiver]

there used for different purposes

one is for user interfaces and the other to make games

[scenic dome]

I don't have a good sense of how "gaming interfaces" are different than "user interfaces". Except for the fact that gaming interfaces are more fun. Both have callbacks and mainloops. What are some tasks which are easy in pyGame and hard in tkinter? Visa-versia?

[dawn quiver]

Well if you are making a game id suggest making it with pygame and making your own UI by using callbacks and a main loop

[vagrant saddle]

pygame by default does not provide GUI widgets nor the ability to place them in different moveable windows handled by a desktop environement. The default target of pygame is what is called a "framebuffer" and it is very basic.

[scenic dome]

I see. One point for tkinter. On the other hand, what does Pygame do that tkinter can't easily do?

[vagrant saddle]

pygame due to its simplistic target is able to run on web and can also use accelerated GPU, while tkinter is still far from it

so usually people make a pygame surface embedded in a tkinter app.(but then they lose web ability and probably android target too )

[scenic dome]

Good point. GPU is crucial in games. And also combining pygame and tkinter is useful for games with UIs.

[timber marsh]

can someone kindly give me the code for a snake game ?

[vagrant saddle]

here's a pyscript one https://gitlab.com/imbev/pywebcanvas/-/blob/master/docs/examples/snake/snake.py

[timber marsh]

ty

[grim abyss]

how would one go about embedding a pygame surface in a tkinter app? code?

[north solstice]

may anyone know how could i replace this in order to achieve the same result without making the program run slow? the points list has 3.6k elements and whenever i draw it starts running slow for obv reasons, but i'd like to avoid having this problem if possible, i'll post code if needed

pygame.draw.lines(screen, (255, 255, 0), False, points, 1)

[pine plinth]

Maybe you can remove some points?

It they form some shapes, you can delete half of point and still get good results

pygame.draw.lines(screen, (255, 255, 0), False, points[::2], 1)

This draws every second point

[north solstice]

right thanks, i completely forgot about slicing, was taking a completely different approach

[thick narwhal]

I need a Python library that works sort of like Processing or the JS Canvas API.
I'm really running into the limitations of py5 but I don't want to commit to writing shaders or switching away from Python. I'm working with simple shapes and text, I feel like setting up a whole new toolchain or learning low-level graphics programming is a bit excessive for these goals.
My end goal is to be able to draw the sketch (borrowing the term from Processing,) to a window or get the raw pixels of the surface so that I can pipe the frame elsewhere (namely ffmpeg.) It's the latter that is forcing me away from py5 as all the options I've tried tank the frame rate to unreasonable levels.

[normal silo]

Pygame.

Also more details needed about what you are trying to do.

[thick narwhal]

I'm writing sketches to use as the background for videos. I use ffmpeg to input audio and overlay an image on the frames received through stdin in the form of raw rgb24 bytes.

It happens that py5 makes the sketching part easy, but makes the exporting part slow

[normal silo]

Sending that much data through stdin will be slow.

[thick narwhal]

Not 5 seconds per frame slow

[normal silo]

Did you time your code to find out what takes the longest?

[thick narwhal]

No and I know I should've, but I did three tests that make me put the blame on py5.
First, I generated new frames using np.zeroes((1920, 1080, 3)) and wrote them to ffmpeg through stdin. It could do that at ~100fps.
Then I tested my py5 sketch by adding a dummy callback to it. This callback, which does absolutely nothing, killed the frame rate just as much as when I tried writing to stdin.
Finally, I skipped the callback and tried writing frames to stdin by calling py5.load_np_pixels() to get the raw pixels. This was faster than the callback version but one frame per second is still pitifully slow.

[normal silo]

Are you drawing into an offscreen buffer? Such as one made with create_graphics?

[thick narwhal]

nope. I don't think Py5Graphics exposes a means of fetching its contents except to push it into a Sketch

[normal silo]

Depending on what you are trying to render / how long that takes, try pygame.

[thick narwhal]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/898981248578514984/1048218670058446908/bokeh.gif

This is a gif of one of the sketches. The tricky part I anticipate is that blurring sometimes isn't easy to do outside shaders

[normal silo]

*Actually Arcade is probably really nice for this if you are not doing 3D.

[normal silo]

You are more or less trying to write shaders without writing shaders so it will all be kind of iffy. Best to learn them.

[thick narwhal]

If I'm learning shaders, I may as well go whole hog and just write it in a compiled language! That's what I wanted to avoid!

[normal silo]

You can write shaders from Python.

Shaders are written in shader languages, compiled languages such as C/C++, etc are not used for shaders.

(They are used for setting the shader / loading inputs to it and such, but that can also be done in Python)

[thick narwhal]

I'm aware. but the shader needs to be compiled from glsl or whatever language 😛

[normal silo]

Yes, which is actually often done at runtime.

(Like when COD lags at startup)

[thick narwhal]

I know Unity precompiles shaders

that was not the emoji I expecting

[normal silo]

Yes you can precompile them.

But the way this usually goes is that the program has either the shaders in some files or in a string in the code and it tells something like OpenGL to compile them.

If you use something like Arcade or Panda3D (/ Ursina) they wrap this so you don't need to learn OpenGL or whatever.

Just give it the shader string.

Learning shaders takes some time though.

So if the performance is not too bad, probably pygame as the easiest way.

But learning shaders is really worth if you plan on making things like that often, animated patterns especially.

[thick narwhal]

I could probably do the whole darn thing in shaders if I really wanted to. I just don't really want to

[normal silo]

Try pygame, it's pretty simple, see how the performance is and if it's fine then getting out the pixels can be done with https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/surfarray.html#pygame.surfarray.pixels3d

[normal silo]

If you are actually already setting the pixels values pixel by pixel like a shader would then doing it with actual shaders won't be difficult for you.

But if you want some shape drawing functions and such, then pygame.

[autumn pilot]

I'm making a 2D RPG(Multiplayer). Wondering if Django Channels is sufficient for this? What pitfalls could I see if I go this route?

[cold storm]

Hey all

created a system that uses a blender mesh as a pool of lines for a drawline function with life, fade , z depth / materials etc

[frank field]

Hey @cold storm!

It looks like you tried to attach file type(s) that we do not allow (.blend). We currently allow the following file types: .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .mov, .mp4, .mpg, .png, .mp3, .wav, .ogg, .webm, .webp, .flac, .m4a, .csv, .json.

Feel free to ask in #community-meta if you think this is a mistake.

[cold storm]

I guess I can't share .blends here still which is a shame

[drowsy skiff]

Finished the most basic of basics.

[peak cobalt]

whenever i try to use pygame.time it always gives me attribute errors even thouhg i have installed pygame on my machine and have imported the libaries

[eternal vessel]

I love me some good 'ol pong

[grim abyss]

Yeah me too. For about 60secs lol

[eternal vessel]

true

[hasty nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/kuzuha-vtuber-kuzuha-nijisanji-kuzuha-chronoir-gif-25081130

[dusky portal]

2

who can help me ??

my function not bug but when i run function not ex

[dusty fog]

does somebody help me supervice my code

for python flappy bird game?

[mild orbit]

sure but i wont be of muchy help since i am also new to this

[dusty fog]

okay can you join voice chat with me?

[mild orbit]

sure

[dusty fog]

to check

i dont have perm to speak

tf

[mild orbit]

go to a certain chat let me check which one real quick

[dusty fog]

okay

lemme share my screen

@mild orbit i cant

strean

aksi

also

wanna join my server if you dont mind?

[mild orbit]

im good

[dusty fog]

@ripe hornet

i dont have perm to speak

hello

how to get?

yes ye

recently started

i just come here to collab

i certainly have

i guess

how to check>

#voice-verification

[ripe hornet]

!voiceverify

[drowsy skiff]

Lol. If it feels good, do it!

[thick carbon]

Yo anyone able to help me code fire emblem like chess?

I have a good start but im having a hard time getting the peices to move

I've made the unit class, but getting the pngs to move has been hella hard.

[gray badger]

can anyone help me to resolve "Error importing tensorflow. Unless you are using bazel,
you should not try to import tensorflow from its source directory;
please exit the tensorflow source tree, and relaunch your python interpreter
from there."

[snow hill]

python "car driving simulator" by @lyric pawn (with a bit of visual tweaks by me)

[dawn quiver]

Really makes me want to try out harfang 👀

[hardy glen]

Hi guys

How I can use

Phyton

In Godot?

Or Unreal engine

[proper peak]

https://github.com/touilleMan/godot-python, I guess. though it seems fairly old and doesn't support godot 4.

[sturdy sandal]

gah damn how?

or does it use a different engine for rendering?

[snow hill]

https://github.com/harfang3d/car-simulator <- this is how 🙂
there's looooot of improvements to be done to the simulation system, but it's nicely coming along

[sturdy sandal]

oohh, thats actually very cool

[snow hill]

yes, it's based on Harfang rendering engine

[sturdy sandal]

that makes sense

i thought it was 3d rendered entirely using python etc.

heres a basic design for my entirely unfinished game

using pygame

[upper dove]

good

[sturdy sandal]

thanks

[snow hill]

super cute

[sturdy sandal]

see i dont need a high quality game if i make it styled as "goofy pixel art" and everyone likes it

[eternal hatch]

Yummy

[frank field]

Hey @dusty crown!

It looks like you tried to attach a Python file - please use a code-pasting service such as https://paste.pythondiscord.com

[dusty crown]

this is all pygame btw

pls dm me if you can help

i will send the entire file there

[eternal hatch]

You can do that with pygame.Surface.blit(..., special_flags)

https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/surface.html#pygame.Surface.blit

@foggy python has a tutorial (https://youtu.be/NGFk44fY0O4) using this technique to make a glowing effect, but I THINK it might work for the clouds (if you used BLEND_SUB).

[eternal hatch]

Oh wait, nvm. Your solution image would be totally different than this solution.

[dusty crown]

ya

[lusty burrow]

What are some things I should learn before I try making games with Python? Are there any good libraries to use such as Pygame?

[summer granite]

Has anyone here ever tried to make and program a private server of an old mmo online game?

[normal silo]

Be comfortable with Python, be able to make algorithms and data structures, learn the basic mathematics of game development.

[eternal hatch]

And have good art skills

maybe not very good, but good enough

[sweet shard]

For 2d libraries look into Pygame and Arcade and for 3d look into Panda3d or Ursina

[lusty burrow]

Are there any resources I can use for graphics? I’m not so great at art

[olive geode]

itch.io or <opengameart.org/> have tons of assets

[lusty burrow]

Thanks! Appreciate it

[spring maple]

How would i add a save feature to a little cookie clicker clone?

[tall willow]

how? i want to learn how to do that too

[snow hill]

you want to google on "raycast car"

[cerulean nimbus]

maybe try to add it in a text csv or json file and then import them on restart

[fathom mauve]

Can someone help me with this python turtle game I am working on in trinket.io within "Pygame"

I am relatively new to coding but it's hard

I'm getting multiple errors but need someone's expertise

[opal jacinth]

this is gunna go crazy fr

[final depot]

yo can i use python in unity?

[snow hill]

Use Harfang instead

Unity is built on top of Mono/C# so whatever you try, Python integration will always be a problem

[final depot]

hm, i might just have to give in and learn c++

[olive geode]

you don't need to learn c++ if you want to make game, except if you plan on making a AAA game targeting multiple consoles

[tall willow]

what about a 3D game is it possible with python ?

[dawn quiver]

Hello everone

i have a huge problem with my boxes

if i wanna start the game, the boxes will be invisible on one side, otherwise i habe created a full box

can somone get in the talk and help me?

There is my Code:

def add_box(pos):
e = Entity(
parent=scene,
model='gras.fbx',
origin=0.5,
position=pos,
texture='gras.png',
)

[sweet shard]

It is more then possible. Look into Panda3d or Ursina, which is built on top of Panda3d

[vestal iron]

hello i have a question why there is lag time between surface.fill? When window is created i can see the black color and than it changes to different color? Is there a way to avoid it? or i have to create loading screen or smthng

[brazen flint]

coding on ipad is really nice

[vagrant saddle]

why not making web games in python with pygame then ?

haha maybe learn to make sticks before making the stickman walk 😉

sure everything is possible but you should start simple and pygame is a way

[kindred heron]

What is the most used library generating such output?

Learn pygame library, start with simple games such as snake game or dice game and so on
And of course you can joun ai with games, I will give you the following intermediate platform to understand AI\ML and howe to transform the data learning into a python code or scratch project, use ⬇️

https://machinelearningforkids.co.uk/

[snow hill]

in the Python ecosystem ?

[kindred heron]

Yes 👍🏻

[snow hill]

no idea, unfortunately 😦

googling "python" "raycast car" leads directly to our repository based on Harfang 😅

[sly quail]

Is the coordinate system Cartesian in arcade?
or is it like pygame, where top left of the screen is 0, 0
pygame is really problematic for me because of that
if arcade is follows the cartesian system I'll move on to it

[vagrant saddle]

https://api.arcade.academy/en/2.5.7/pygame_comparison.html

[eternal vessel]

I really don't mind the default being top-left corner, I've gotten pretty used to it at this point

[onyx narwhal]

what's the best method of timer to use for rounds in a game with a limit?

[torn jackal]

hi guys I am new to GitHub and I d like to upload a big folder, but it contains more than 100 files (and I have to upload only one folder, not a folder split in files) if you know how to upload more than 100 files in one time, please mention 🙏

[wintry notch]

you can do it locally

[dawn quiver]

dose

how do i fix this

[ashen condor]

im doing a simple generator using perlin noise... and i made a "generator" class to use for different stuffs at different layers of complexity

but... i am stuck in a 3d for loop and i dont know how to make it work faster

[dawn quiver]

I have a question for game inventory. I need help for a checker when I loot to replace an item. because every action I make asks to replace an item in my inventory even if I am not adding an item to my inventory

[velvet parrot]

do i learn how to do is in intro to computer science

[sly quail]

ah, thanks.

[snow hill]

No idea 🤷‍♀️
This is something you would rather find online if you look for game dev tutorials, I guess

Or maybe in a gamedev oriented school

[modest portal]

what engine does this use?

[modest portal]

or library

[snow hill]

Harfang

[dawn quiver]

i have a doubt

help me #data-science-and-ml message

[proper peak]

Generally speaking, if you end up writing a loop over a large number of elements in Python, it'll be pretty slow no matter what, just because Python loops (and other seemingly tiny operations like assignments, etc) are fairly slow. You'll want to e.g. rewrite parts of this using numpy.

[blazing void]

Hey, I use the pygame menu library and I want to use unicode as title for buttons, is this posssible and if no, is there an other way to use symbols as title

[unborn flume]

Hey guys I'm new here lmao😅

And learning python, I made a calculator today

It would be great if you guys can give me piece of advice as a beginner

[scenic dome]

Two general pieces of advice:

1. There are many tutorials. But they are suited to different learning styles. Find the ones you enjoy the most.
2. The tutorials teach the mechanics of the language. However, it is crucial in programming to understand the tradeoffs you have to constantly make. Do I automate this task or just do it manually? Do I have FourWheeledVehicle inherit from RoadVehicle or just have a general Vehicle class with a wheel_count attribute? What functions should I document for another user using this program? How should I represent my data structures? Tutorials don't really cover this kind of decision making.

[silk vessel]

can you draw rectangles with an alpha value for the color?

[vestal iron]

Anyone can help me match right side wall of rectangle?
Took me 2 hours to learn how to set rectangle bottom to another rectangle top now i need to do same with the wals

ping me if you can so i can find later the answer

[dawn quiver]

Currently working on a template for creating rpg like games with no libaries like pygame, wanted to know if anyone would find that usefull ps its kinda messy rn

I was thinking on putting it on github but i was not sure if anyone would actully use it since it better to just use libaries

[dawn quiver]

anyone who wants to look and modify code is welcome https://github.com/Python-John/PyRPG.git

[vestal iron]

You should do something like this

ball_dx = your_number
ball_dx = ball_dx * - 1

You called it before defining

[vestal iron]

I made window transparent but i hate that i can click through.
If anyone familiar with with this code, help me.

 transparency_color = (255, 0, 128)
    
    # Create layered window
    hmwd = pygame.display.get_wm_info()['window']
    win32gui.SetWindowLong(hmwd, win32con.GWL_EXSTYLE,
                            win32gui.GetWindowLong(hmwd, win32con.GWL_EXSTYLE) | win32con.WS_EX_LAYERED)
    # Set window transparency color
    win32gui.SetLayeredWindowAttributes(hmwd, win32api.RGB(*transparency_color), 0, win32con.LWA_COLORKEY)

[lunar venture]

Completely transparent windows propagate every mouse (and maybe keyboard) triggered event

Probably to allow non rectangularly shaped windows (what isn't rendered doesn't exist basically)

[vestal iron]

so the fix to my problem may not exist

[lunar venture]

You can use a value that's almost completely transparent

Works like a charm on me and my friends

[vestal iron]

can you tell me where i put it that value?

[lunar venture]

I have no idea

I experimented with that in tkinter

[vestal iron]

oh i hear tkinter has something with transperacny but im using pygame and i think these 2 wont work togeter

[vestal iron]

well if i wont make transparent screen i might make a fake transparency

fake transperancy should fix the mouse problem

[unborn flume]

Thank-you man! I got it👍

[cosmic crown]

Wassup mans ! I just want to know if anyone can help me for a project python ? If u can please add me in private it Will be realy cool !

[cold osprey]

can somebody help me with a trigger bot dm me

[modest elm]

Hi 😄

How to use pygame

And make button and slider in it

???

[sweet shard]

Since pygame doesn't come with a gui out of the box you'll have to use a library like pygame-gui or write your own gui library

[ashen condor]

well, there inst much i can do with numpy, i could look around for a "better perlin noise" or something like that

is multiprocessing helpful in that?

[vivid lichen]

What is the fastest way to guess a 4-nonzero-unique digits code, if I will be given for each guess:
1 - number of correctly placeed digits.
2 - number of misplaced digits

[vagrant saddle]

sounds like mastermind algorithm

[vivid lichen]

Yeah, but the difference is that I don't know what the correctly placed digits are

[pine plinth]

watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA
there is a solution for similar problem

[tight ocean]

Hey, i am interested in it, how can I change the code?

[dawn quiver]

@tight ocean you can download it and edit it I have discussions on if you want to post your changes👍

[tight ocean]

Ok

[tight ocean]

I think it would be better if we use gui.

[frank field]

Hey @true goblet!

You either uploaded a .txt file or entered a message that was too long. Please use our paste bin instead.

[true goblet]

I guess there's a much better way of doing that but here how I deal with controls in my menu-intensive game
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/amagutasah

any ideas of how I could make it better?

to give more context, it's supposed to be a Dwarf Fortress inspired game

[cloud jasper]

make the clouds a class and a function to check if it collapses, it checks it everytime and when it did collide which is something else than the background check if to grey and in the else function do the color to be white

idk how to do that

[cloud jasper]

use git for console

[frank field]

Hey @heavy totem!

It looks like you tried to attach a Python file - please use a code-pasting service such as https://paste.pythondiscord.com

[versed aurora]

im doing terrain gen, thinking maybe using just some math to make a pseudorandom function, probably by caching trig to make it faster

this works kinda but is grainy and not very random

[versed aurora]

instead of a bunch of elifs maybe consider using match case
also as a long time df fan, good luck

if it's df inspired you might not even need pygame and just use terminal graphics

for windows the msvcrt module works for keyboard, and otherwise probably some ctypes bs

import msvcrt
while True:
    if msvcrt.kbhit():
        print(msvcrt.getch())

[dawn quiver]

it is random but not smooth

[versed aurora]

yeah

[dawn quiver]

and it doesnt have varying layers of noise

like big voids

if you are interested i have a good read on noise

https://lodev.org/cgtutor/randomnoise.html

there are several ways to tackle the problem

could use cellular automata

or layer noise at different resolutions

[dawn quiver]

gloop you are cool

i like the kind of stuff you are working on

[versed aurora]

thx

[dawn quiver]

how was trig susposed to be invovled?

[versed aurora]

it’s something like sin((x+y)*(x-y)) i think

Or maybe tan

i forget

[dawn quiver]

that is x^2 plus y^2

like when you multiply it out

no

minus

[versed aurora]

yeah but i added a bit extra

idk, i was just screwing around

[dawn quiver]

thats good

https://www.desmos.com/calculator

this is probably not what you described but it looks really cool

slide the bar for h around and watch it form into a ball

[hearty yoke]

You all know if pygame works on juypter notebook?

[outer drum]

it does 🙂

[hearty yoke]

How do u download?

Do u know by any chance?

[queen wyvern]

pip install pygame in your terminal/command prompt

[hushed coyote]

Bro how do you make a game in python on a mobile device, the only plan i had for a game is its an rpg.

Just asking....

[versed aurora]

there's probably mobile APIs out there

huh, neat

((x^y)-x)^((x&y)+x)

[crystal hawk]

What are some algorithms which I can use to create wiggle function ?

I want similar movements like chaos the path traced by double pendulums

[versed aurora]

random walk

basically add a random value to a variable each step

you could also interpolate noise but i think random walk would be easier

[versed aurora]

like this?

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt,random
walkValues = {0:0}
valuesCount = 1000
for i in range(valuesCount):
    walkValues[i+1]=walkValues[i]+random.uniform(-1,1)
plt.plot(walkValues.keys(),walkValues.values(), 'r')
plt.grid(color='#333333', linestyle='-', linewidth=0.1)
plt.show()

[jagged cloud]

I'm new to programming and would like to use Pygame to visualize things. I am uncomfortable using pip and would like to click on one of the 43 links to download Pygame.

How do I choose between the different windows versions if I have a 64 bit windows system? (I tried looking things up and found I was accelerating down a rabbit hole with less and less progress)

[versed aurora]

you're gonna have a hard time without using pip

[jagged cloud]

where can I educate myself on learning pip and how to download and format it?

[versed aurora]

i mean, pip should come preinstalled

pip is also super easy to use, it's literally just 'pip install [package name]'

[jagged cloud]

When I have tried the things I have been told I seemed to always get errors. I will see if I can get it to work this time

[versed aurora]

you might need to add it to PATH (for windows, open 'sysdm.cpl', advanced tab, environment variables, then path)

the directory you'll want to add if it's not there should be Python\Python311\Scripts (replace Python311 with whatever version)

then you can just open cmd and do 'pip' to test if it works

[jagged cloud]

I get an error and it says it is something with the package

[versed aurora]

can you post the exact error?

also do you have multiple installations of python?

[jagged cloud]

I do, I would like to remove the older versions

[versed aurora]

yeah pip is kinda odd with multiple versions in my experience

you can just uninstall the versions like any other program afaik

assuming you mean python versions and not package versions

[jagged cloud]

correct

Thank you Gloop, you helped me to see that the computer can be picky in ways I would not think of.

[versed aurora]

np

yeah i had a very similar problem for a long time

if you ever have issues with pip installing to the wrong place do 'pip config list' to see where it's installing to, and 'pip config set global.target [directory]' to set it

[crystal hawk]

Yes!!

[crystal hawk]

Thank you so much. So appreciate it!

[versed aurora]

np

used to use it when i was bored to generate random 'art'

like this lol

[versed aurora]

there we go
ive been working on autogenerating maps in besiege
this doesn't use perlin noise but instead uses scuffed interpolated bitmap stuff

the pattern kinda falls apart at large scale

i think i'll cave and use numpy

[jagged cloud]

This is my error:
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired

it seems to happen multiple times

It also tells me there is: No "Setup" file

[dawn quiver]

hey gloop you check out that site i gave you?

the lodev one?

[versed aurora]

Yeah

I just used a gaussian blur on noise and it turned pretty good

[zinc ruin]

hello i have a problem with this code pls

can someone help

[hasty nimbus]

????

[zinc ruin]

idk why it's false

i have to change what

it's for a video game when my character have to turn left or right

[jagged cloud]

I believe you have to "return" it out of the local environment. It "ceases to exist" switching environments.

also I think you want to check if the key is pressed, It isn't clear from your picture you have done that

You are using a boolean check, which is asking if "q" is keyboard.key
booleans are literal and picky for example "4" != 4 in boolean logic despite them looking the same. One is a string and the other an interger.

[obtuse pivot]

Hey does anyone know how to use the godot engine, I dont know if it's allwed but I'm willing to pay for the assistance

[olive geode]

This is not allowed

[obtuse pivot]

Ohhhhhh

I'll go to fiver, no worries

I should have thought of that first

[olive geode]

np

See the rule 9

!rule 9

[frank field]

Rules

9. Do not offer or ask for paid work of any kind.

[obtuse pivot]

I got it nowe

[devout crater]

heyo i made a 170-line simple tetris game in pygame
anyone wanna look through it and give me pointers?

[torn jackal]

Hi guys, I am coding with Ursina, and I am coding a small Minecraft to train myself for the good using of Ursina. Can someone tell me if it exist something to generate a map as in Minecraft. Thanks in advance ! Mention if you can help !

[devout crater]

generally i’ve seen people use various noise maps to represent height. this will not generate caves on its own though

@torn jackal

[devout crater]

if you dont know what this means its kind of like a greyscale image generated from random data where the brightness of each pixel will represent the height of the highest block of each horizontal coordinate

plenty of great resources if you give it a google

[devout crater]

made a 63 line snake if thats less daunting to look through

[median plover]

i mean

line counting is nothing

the smaller isnt always the better

[scenic dome]

Also the best coding strats for small line-count on simple games may not work well for larger pieces of software. They may not have enough "structure" to scale up well.

[graceful yew]

what's the pygame equivalent of https://love2d.org/wiki/love.update ?

[scenic dome]

You make a while True with your logic, etc and call pygame functions within the loop.
See here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54981456/how-to-implement-a-pygame-timed-game-loop

[graceful yew]

does clock.tick() skip frames in that example?

[scenic dome]

clock.tick(60) will wait if you haven't used up the full 1/60 since the last time you called clock.tick (which is usually the last time the loop ran). This means that FPC is capped at 60. But it can still drop lower if the loop is expensive. This doesn't "skip" frames, it throttles frames.

If you want the speed of the game to stay the same under heavy load this can be done to an extent by skipping rendering frames (i.e. only calling Pygame graphics calls every other frame). Or short-changing logic frames (not calling AI pathing every frame). Doing these can keep the pace up but it has downsides.

[graceful yew]

all right, thanks, this should help me keep track of time

[tulip thunder]

hi

i dont really know in wich chat should i ask this because it is pretty base level

but why is this code printing at 0 x 04535345x and not a float number

from math import pi
class Cercle:
def init(self, rayon):
self.rayon = rayon

def calcul_aire(self):
    return pi * self.rayon*2

def afficher_info(self):
    print(self.calcul_aire())
    print(self.calcul_circonference())

def calcul_circonference(self):
    return 2 * pi * self.rayon

a = Cercle(5)
a.afficher_info()

[sweet plinth]

I have a problem here is toreate a 2 lists, one for your name (1) and another list for direction (2) (e.g: d3,f5) then randomly assgin one of the item from (2) and assign it to (1) then print it into the screen
**E.g: **an item from (2) will randomly picked up an item from (1) and print to the screen:
Nick,e4
Lisa, f4

[lavish gale]

:0

[candid fjord]

i know no 1 ask but here is my non fisnihed discount hangman
(yes its a console game)

context:
my school coding club weekly challenge this week was "make a hangman game using python"
evry1 in the club except me use pygame
but im lazy af so i used python console

here is the (unfinished) code:
print(" HANGMAN")
print(" dicount version")
print( )
print(" | -- clue: type of food ")
print(" | |")
print("___ ______")

let1 = input("what letter?")

if let1 == "b":
print(" HANGMAN")
print(" dicount version")
print( )
print(" | -- clue: type of food ")
print(" | |")
print("___ B_____"))

[devout crater]

just saying its quick to read through

if i just asked to look through my game people would assume its a 10 file 5000+ lines code and obviously thats something you dont want to look at

not from a stranger anyway

[devout crater]

i'd keep the input letters in an data structure like an array or list then use that to generate the displayed text

then you just need a while loop that ends when you've input the full word or to many wrong letters

what you're doing is known as hardcoding

[devout crater]

i made my own just now, if you have any questions i can help you and show little bits of my own code

[devout crater]

import math and use math.pi
furthermore you need to call the initializing function __init__(self, rayon)

and to square a number do rayon**2

like this

import math

class Cercle:
    def __init__(self, rayon):
        self.rayon = rayon

    def calcul_aire(self):
        return math.pi * self.rayon**2

    def afficher_info(self):
        print(self.calcul_aire())
        print(self.calcul_circonference())

    def calcul_circonference(self):
        return 2 * math.pi * self.rayon

a = Cercle(5)
a.afficher_info()

[faint bane]

is pygame.display.update() or pygame.display.flip() better in general, also what cases are the other (the one that is typically worse) better (just give a general answer)

[devout crater]

is this what you want

import random
names = ["Jordan", "George", "Susan"]
directions = ["d5", "f4", "a2"]
print(names[random.randint(0, len(names)-1)] + ", " + directions[random.randint(0, len(directions)-1)])

[devout crater]

flip() updates the whole display, update() updates a portion if it

[faint bane]

does flip make the game run slower than?

[devout crater]

another key difference is only flip works if you're using opengl, documentation says update is optimized for software displaying

i dont think that means it's faster though

only more versatile

update will be faster if you only want to update a portion of the screen

e.g. if you're in a menu and the rest of the game is paused, or if you have a border around the game that does not change

otherwise they are probably identical

[faint bane]

alright

ty

[hushed coyote]

Hello.

[civic rune]

hello, can anyone help me with picking items up in a game developed in PyCharm. I would like a nudge in the right direction so i can learn what I am doing, thank you.

[hexed patio]

Apart from pygame, how could py be used for game dev.?

[vast heron]

Cloud Multi-Player Servers

[hexed patio]

Link?

Is it a lib?

[vast heron]

No

using python you can create a server to do Cloud Multi-Player

[hexed patio]

Ok

[hexed patio]

I meant, apart from pygame, there’s no other lib for gdev ?

[vast heron]

there is Arcade

and there is pyglet

and so much more

[hexed patio]

Thanks.

Ohh kivy?

[ashen condor]

does someone know how can i make a class, for a 2d tileable perlin noise?
i am super stucked on the generator part

i get only this and well, its not really what i need to generate a good world x3

[devout crater]

looks like you're missing interpolation

[ashen condor]

fixxed, i was giving the wrong x, y for the noise

now it look stimes beter x3

[devout crater]

ah looks nice

[ashen condor]

it's slow when it has to generate new chunks tho

[tight ocean]

Python for 3d rendering?

[ashen condor]

i tried ursina once, not that good

[hexed patio]

What’s that?

[ashen condor]

3d game engine in python

https://www.ursinaengine.org/

[hexed patio]

Oh. Looks great.

Easy to use and understand ?

[ashen condor]

easy to use and understand, but you have to optimize all by yourself

if you have to make something 2d id use pygame

maybe if you wanna do simple stuffs in 3d may work

[sweet shard]

Look into Panda3D it's a great library for exploring 3d rendering
Or if you just want something out of the box Blender's Python api is also good

[normal silo]

You can do it manually with the moderngl module: https://pypi.org/project/moderngl/

There is also moderngl-window if you need window / are not using pygame or something else for the window / event loop.

(You can also use PyOpenGL)

[cyan bridge]

HELLO

[frank field]

Hey @cyan bridge!

You either uploaded a .txt file or entered a message that was too long. Please use our paste bin instead.

[ashen condor]

i dont know if this is the right channel but its related to the game-ish i'm making

is there a way to make a "background" loop do something when and only when, the "main loop" is not busy "Drawing" a new frame?

[dawn quiver]

is it similar to when a game is running but then u press pause or die and other actions start happening ?

if so i think i can help you

[ashen condor]

more like, camera is not moving and no chunks are being loaded and drawn, this process kicks in and starts to generate chunks around the camera point but over the "load boarder"

to spare time when the "game" is not busy

[tight ocean]

Thx

But , python is slow

[potent ice]

It depends what's doing the heavy lifting.

[true goblet]

Super messy code I wrote, I'm sure can 100% be optimised, but it at least works

                needed = colony.GetCountByMaterialType()[item] - count
                addedItems = 0

                while colony.GetCountByMaterialType()[item] > needed:
                    for invItem in inventory.keys():
                        if addedItems < count:
                            if invItem.materialType == item:
                                while inventory[invItem] > 0:
                                    inventory[invItem] -= 1
                                    addedItems += 1

                                    if addedItems < count:
                                        continue
                                    else:
                                        break

it's basically a loop in a loop in a loop in a loop

[potent ice]

You can probably split that up

[eternal igloo]

What's the best way to make games with python

Any ideas?

[vagrant saddle]

do you want to run on mobile and maybe use multitouch ?

[dawn quiver]

What is this suppose to be doing?

[ashen condor]

i need help, this thing slows my game heavily

    def draw_world(self):
        cx, cy = [round(i / self.chunk_size) for i in self.camera_pos]

        x_correction = round(self.screen.get_width() / 2 + self.camera_pos[0] + (self.chunk_size / 2))
        y_correction = round(self.screen.get_height() / 2 + self.camera_pos[1] + (self.chunk_size / 2))

        for i in range(-cx - self.render_distance[0], -cx + self.render_distance[0] - 1):
            for j in range(-cy - self.render_distance[1], -cy + self.render_distance[1] - 1):
                chunk = self.map(i, j)
                for tile in chunk[0].tiles:
                    copy_tile = pygame.Rect(tile[0])
                    copy_tile.centerx += x_correction
                    copy_tile.centery += y_correction
                    if self.visible_noise:
                        pygame.draw.rect(self.screen, tile[2], copy_tile)
                    else:
                        pygame.draw.rect(self.screen, tile[1], copy_tile)

                if self.chunk_boarder:
                    copy_chunk = pygame.Rect(chunk[0].rect)
                    copy_chunk.centerx += x_correction
                    copy_chunk.centery += y_correction
                    pygame.draw.rect(self.screen, chunk[1], copy_chunk, self.tile_size // 2)
                    text = self.font.render(f'[{(i + 1) * 1} | {(j + 1) * -1}]', True, (0, 0, 0))
                    text_rect = text.get_rect(center=copy_chunk.center)
                    self.screen.blit(text, text_rect)

any suggestion?

[dawn quiver]

is the if self.chunk_boarder: supposed to be within the double for loop?

does it run fine without this bit of code?

font rendering is expensive i think

[ashen condor]

it maybe drawns a frame or 2, not that big issue, by default is False

[dawn quiver]

So that is not the problem

[ashen condor]

i mean

i draw like a hell of amount of tiles

but i dont know how i could make it work better

[dawn quiver]

well

assuming you have a really simple implementation

consider cacheing these tiles

into a surface for each chunk

[ashen condor]

explain

[dawn quiver]

for a chunk you have a surface

load the chunk and render all the tiles to that surface

you do this once

and just render the surfaces

this will help a bunch

[ashen condor]

this is my current chunk to make you understand a lil better

[dawn quiver]

eh i cant decipher that right now . . . maybe explain it?

like what i said will still apply

yeah

add a surface to the chunk

on chunk load

render all the tiles to that surface

and in the game loop

render that surface

there are ways to render to a surface instead of the window

tat way you are only renderering a surface per chunk

instead of a alot of tiles per chunk every frame

id advise aginst the double underscore naming convention

also how are you storing the tiles

a 1d array?

[dawn quiver]

^

the way your appending to that list seems odd

[eternal igloo]

Yes it's on mobile

[timid raft]

I have a learning project I am about to start which will basically replicate Basic DnD rules and write the modules (the red book if anyone remembers) .

What additional modules can anyone recommend (I am presuming Pygame)?

[vagrant saddle]

then pygame/panda3d are the easy entry points and you can prototype with webview before going native eg https://pygame-web.github.io/showroom/pygame-scripts/org.pygame.touchpong.html or https://rdb.name/panda3d-webgl/editor.html

[eternal igloo]

thx

[fallow glade]

❓

[devout crater]

do you want to make this?

[dawn quiver]

Hello fellow python people. I like coding as a hobby but I would like to get better at it enough so that i could potentially make a career out of it. I like the programming aspect of game development and even debugging code can be fun, but I am a terrible at coming up with ideas for games. What should i do to better myself? Ideally id like to work on a project with someone to finish a game.

[icy dawn]

You like to work in a team
And this is much better than working alone
In my opinion, you should first find a person with whom you can work in a group
Someone who doesn't disagree with you or doesn't disagree in other areas so that you can find complete compatibility with him.
To get better at ideas, it is enough to pay attention to the details of several popular or good old games
And try to improve the idea that is implemented on these games to make it better
If you do this, you will automatically come up with interesting ideas
People who have creative ideas
They see many examples of work
Few of them have exceptional talents
But this does not mean that you remain bad and cannot get better
It is enough to pay a lot of attention to the work sample and the details of the games

@dawn quiver See the details

[dawn quiver]

Thanks for responding. I think i might have found someone Im willing to work with. If i help him with his project maybe we could make something we both are really excited for.

[icy dawn]

you're welcome
But also know this
If the person you want to work with is a team
If you see that it is compatible with you
Share your ideas with it
Let him tell you his ideas
Some people keep their ideas to themselves
Maybe you will tell him your idea and he will say that I had the same thought
This is how you will adapt over time

i like this program

[dawn quiver]

oh lol i just kept that open in the background

forgot about it

[icy dawn]

xd

[dawn quiver]

I used it to make this starfish

[icy dawn]

this is animation maker

but Graphic is pixel

[dawn quiver]

i havent done much with animations the interface is a lil confusing.

[icy dawn]

I once made a game with that character software that my friend and I wanted to make that game

I don't have it, otherwise I would have shown it to you

good luck my friend

🖐🏻 👀

[buoyant vessel]

so, in arcade if you were loading a sprite you might do something like this self.player = arcade.Sprite(image_path, CHARACTER_SCALING) but a lot of gaming assets are on sheets and under the assumption that you are going to load the entire sheet and specify the individual sprite using indexes and dimensions... Could someone direct me to docs that explain how to do this, or do I need to cut up the assets into individual images?

[versed aurora]

cant believe i never did this before but line drawing

all terminal graphics

[eternal vessel]

Artists be like: "and that will be $2,000"

[runic tusk]

I was planning on making a simulation on prey vs predator
Collectively, predators(red) chase preys(green) both have a speed and energy, energy depletes over time. Predators need to eat to split, preys just have to survive

Now I need pygame to plot it, how would I make it so the map is continuous(entities can go on the other end once they reach the shape's border).

[eternal vessel]

I'm dumb I don't get the border explanation

Like if they walk to one end of the border, it'll put them to the otherside?

[runic tusk]

Exactly.

[eternal vessel]

yeah that's doable

lemme try and code up a simple example

import pygame

# Pygame Setup
pygame.init()
SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT = 800, 800
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT))
FPS, clock = 60, pygame.time.Clock()

# Player
P_WIDTH, P_HEIGHT = 50, 50
p1 = pygame.Rect(50, 50, P_WIDTH, P_HEIGHT)

# Game Loop
while True:
    clock.tick(FPS)
    keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            exit
    # Move
    if keys[pygame.K_a]:
        p1.x -= 5
    if keys[pygame.K_d]:
        p1.x += 5
     
    # Border Teleport (on the x)
    if p1.x + p1.width < SCREEN_WIDTH*0:
        p1.x = SCREEN_WIDTH
    if p1.x > SCREEN_WIDTH:
        p1.x = (SCREEN_WIDTH*0)-p1.width
    
    # Draw
    screen.fill((50, 50, 50))
    pygame.draw.rect(screen, (0,0,255), p1)
    pygame.display.update()```

@runic tusk bad code, but the border teleport works

so you just want to use that logic

[foggy python]

Just released my first Pygame game that uses shaders. 🎉
https://dafluffypotato.itch.io/hue-flowing
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/554140549310054439/1055679088964141086/2022-12-22_21-48-23.mp4

[eternal vessel]

You continue to impress me

[dawn quiver]

No way that Python 😮

[foggy python]

the source is available for download as well if you want to look

[ocean sage]

wow

[icy dawn]

The first achievement in the music industry

[pliant knot]

Anyone has experience with Houdini and vanilla media?

[eternal vessel]

tkinter, noice

[icy dawn]

thanks man...
thanks

[eternal vessel]

Uh...
You're welcome?

[icy dawn]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/910117504158937089/1055863482739871794/bandicam_2022-12-23_18-33-51-791.mp4 The Dice Game

[eternal vessel]

Nice Mario Music

[toxic stratus]

👏

[dawn quiver]

ehm

idk how to use python yet

[eternal vessel]

Better get to learning

[broken garden]

Hi I am looking for people who are interested in giving me a game idea cause I'm still learning pygame

[icy dawn]

call of duty 3 xdddd
im joking

xdd

[icy dawn]

mario is good choice for stating

[soft lion]

@icy dawn very nice. U could put the key notes instead A-L T1-T12. Also, where did u got the sounds?

[versed aurora]

just decided to try doing a rotation matrix while rendering

came out pretty cool

def rotateCoords(x,y,t):
    c,s = math.cos(t),math.sin(t)
    x2 = (x*c) - (y * s)
    y2 = (x*s) + (y * c)
    return x2,y2

[eternal vessel]

that hurts to look at lol

[versed aurora]

lol

here it is with mandelbrot

all default py if you're curious

this is terminal graphics

[icy dawn]

hi my frieand

The first time I downloaded the sounds from Google and placed them, but due to the lack of sound, I could not continue
But the second time, I noticed that the fl stadio software has a piano-like part, and I took the notes from there and edited them with Premiere (thickness and thinness of the sound).

[dawn quiver]

can someone help me reload a python module
or reload a python func
or change my program so that this kind of hackery is not needed

[brave knoll]

your future looks bright

(this is a demo room, right?)

[thick knot]

Heys, I’m creating a rpg game by text, like the old adventures game in text and I have a doubt: a game with the dr. Stone thematic is a good idea?

[grim abyss]

Cool stuff. Check out this lib...

[grim abyss]

!pypi Planar

[frank field]

planar v0.4

2D planar geometry library for Python.

[grim abyss]

Sadly, no longer maintained. Still useful...

Has vectors and stuff...

affine transforms such as a rotation are already implemented.

[grim abyss]

https://pythonhosted.org/planar/affineref.html

I don't know if you're just exploring/learning or not...Maybe you don't wish to implement a scaling transform...

[flat lava]

Is there a way to completely delete objects in turtle

[patent bear]

hello guys i just want to know how to create menu in python using keyboard arrows

[thick knot]

Depends. Are you using pygame? If yes, in the loop ‘for event in pygame.event.get()’ you can use the key K_RIGHT, K_LEFT, K_UP and K_DOWN

[pallid patio]

I'm getting started on a pygame uni project and before doing more stuff to it I need some feedback on how this looks for the game loop, is there anything I should change or would this be a good structure for it?

[fossil hound]

for some reason my game is completely black

anyone know why?

import pygame

Initialize pygame

pygame.init()

Set the screen size and caption

SCREEN_SIZE = (600, 600)
pygame.display.set_caption("Jump Game")

Set the player's starting position and velocity

player_pos = [0, 0]
player_vel = [0, 0]

Set the size of each grid cell

cell_size = 50

Set the colors for the grid, the player, and the spikes

grid_color = (200, 200, 200)
player_color = (255, 0, 0)
spike_color = (0, 0, 0)

Set the gravity and jump strength

gravity = 0.5
jump_strength = 8

Create the screen and the clock

screen = pygame.display.set_mode(SCREEN_SIZE)
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

Set up the spikes

spikes = [[5, 5], [7, 7], [3, 8], [9, 2]]

Set the player's shape (either "ship" or "cube")

player_shape = "ship"

Main game loop

running = True
while running:
# Handle events
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False
elif event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
# Handle the space key to make the player jump
if event.key == pygame.K_SPACE:
player_vel[1] = -jump_strength
# Handle the M key to switch between modes
elif event.key == pygame.K_m:
if player_shape == "ship":
player_shape = "cube"
else:
player_shape = "ship"

Update the player's velocity due to gravity

player_vel[1] += gravity

# Update the player's position based on their velocity
player_pos[0] += player_vel[0]
player_pos[1] += player_vel[1]

# Check if the player has touched a spike
for spike in spikes:
    if player_pos[0] == spike[0] and player_pos[1] == spike[1]:
        print("You died!")
        running = False

# Clear the screen
screen.fill((255, 255, 255))

# Draw the grid
for i in range(10):
    for j in range(10):
        rect = pygame.Rect(i * cell_size, j * cell_size, cell_size, cell_size)
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, grid_color, rect, 1)

# Draw the spikes
for spike in spikes:
    rect = pygame.Rect(spike[0] * cell_size, spike[1] * cell_size, cell_size, cell_size)

[uneven tide]

You're not calling pygame.display.flip() (ou update) to make everything visible

[fossil hound]

where should i add that?

[uneven tide]

https://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/MoveIt.html#putting-it-all-together-one-more-time

inside your main loop, at the end, after you've drawn everything

[fossil hound]

k thanks

[pallid patio]

yo anyone on this ? ^^

[dawn quiver]

That is an interesting way to write the game loop

Why did you nest functions?

[versed aurora]

i’ve done that before when i wanted to just restart the script essentially

[pallid patio]

so that I can directly access the object instances in the loop

you could technically do so via the objlist but it's harder to keep track of the object you're accessing

oh and it shouldn't be in the for loop, one sec

[dawn quiver]

or you could put the variables outside the loop as well as outisde the run function

Unless you are trying to stop names from conflicting but then some might suggest to use a class

[pallid patio]

that was the original implementation but some reason I couldn't access the object instances

here's what I had before

[dawn quiver]

ah well what i would have done is stick the entire thing in main

depends on how big the project is though

[pallid patio]

I somewhat find it more organized this way

the project is likely not that large, but I'd like to practice stuff that works at larger scales

[dawn quiver]

What kind of games you gonna make?

[pallid patio]

for the while I have a beatemup-type game in mind, but I'm practicing by making a simple fighting game

we've been told not to make the game yet by our tutor so I'm kind of holding back on being a total jackass and finishing it now, but I might just get a foundation of it done already

supposedly the project lasts 6 months

[dawn quiver]

What i find fun about programming games, in my experience mostly games that involve a grid, is to find out the game state.

Like how to represent the game state

[pallid patio]

wdym by the game state exactly?

[dawn quiver]

like in chess how do you represent the pieces on the board? What data structures do you use and what algorithms do you use?

Same deal with tetris

traffic jam

bejewled

[pallid patio]

once you get to the 3d stuff it gets even more intriguing. I've always found implementations of a rubik's cube in code to be really interesting

[dawn quiver]

well maybe for each cube in a rubiks cube would have a number.

this number is a bitwise composition of numbers that represent color

so six sides six colors 6 bits maybe?

[pallid patio]

you could ditch colors entirely and instead have each color assigned to a char

[dawn quiver]

then each face is comprised of a specific order of numbers'

[pallid patio]

it's a bit pointless to save that much memory but ya know

[dawn quiver]

well what i meant was each bit poisition corresponds to a color

[pallid patio]

yeah that makes sense

what I find the most interesting about a rubiks cube is the way movement works

[dawn quiver]

The fun problem is rotating the cubes

yeah