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small crown
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It’s a game I have played with my dad and uncle since I was a little kid

dawn quiver
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never played card games

small crown
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I’m also moving from Spain back to the USA so I’m distracted

small crown
dawn quiver
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ohh

dawn quiver
small crown
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Interesting

dawn quiver
small crown
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Have you at least seen a standard deck of cards?

dawn quiver
dawn quiver
small crown
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The game is simple u have to match the suit or the card number after the pile is shown. So a 5 can match with any suit of the same number and the suit can be matched with any other number with that suit… 5 ♠️ matches with 5 ❤️♣️♦️ + ♠️ A, 1, 2, 3…K

small crown
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And then when I finally get the logic right I still have to add an optional points tally 😄

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So 2 modes lol

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And this is something I want to share with the family so it’ll eventually be a mobile and/or desktop multiplayer app as well… which means Xcode

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And my first day back to school is Aug 1st plus I’ll probably have to find a job… it’s going to take me a while to develop this game fully

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The discord bot command is more like a proof of concept project

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If it works on discord Xcode will be a breeze

dawn quiver
dawn quiver
small crown
brisk yew
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You could use pygame.image.tobytes to get the byte data of an image, then store it in some variable or just directly put it into pygame.image.frombytes and you can store those images in code

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also you're forgetting to convert those surface

versed aurora
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please tell me thats not what i think youre trying to say

dawn quiver
brisk yew
marble jewel
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uncut nymph
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frank fieldBOT
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The `dict.get` method

Often while using dictionaries in Python, you may run into KeyErrors. This error is raised when you try to access a key that isn't present in your dictionary. Python gives you some neat ways to handle them.

The dict.get method will return the value for the key if it exists, and None (or a default value that you specify) if the key doesn't exist. Hence it will never raise a KeyError.

>>> my_dict = {"foo": 1, "bar": 2}
>>> print(my_dict.get("foobar"))
None

Below, 3 is the default value to be returned, because the key doesn't exist-

>>> print(my_dict.get("foobar", 3))
3

Some other methods for handling KeyErrors gracefully are the dict.setdefault method and collections.defaultdict (check out the !defaultdict tag).

pearl linden
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FNAP in working

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🙂

pearl linden
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s

dawn quiver
spark violet
dawn quiver
neat heart
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very interesting idea

dawn quiver
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It's so good

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How you maked graphics

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??

dawn quiver
brisk yew
dawn quiver
brisk yew
# dawn quiver Whats pygame-ce, i just used regular pygame

pygame-ce is better: better maintained, new features, more optimizations, new governance model, core contributors of pygame have moved over to it
Here's the initial announcement on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pygame/comments/1112q10/pygame_community_edition_announcement/
You can follow the latest updates starting from here: #772506385304649738 message
Installation:

pip uninstall pygame
pip install pygame-ce

That's it, you probably don't even need to change anything in your current code, it's still import pygame, for example.

dawn quiver
brisk yew
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also, barely any reason to stick with pygame/pygame when you can use pygame-community/pygame-ce, you literally just have to type two lines to install it and you're set

manic totem
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why my laser doesnt work properly


class Laser:
    def __init__(self, x, y, img):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        self.img = img
        self.mask = pygame.mask.from_surface(self.img)

    def draw(self, window):
        window.blit(self.img, (self.x, self.y))

    def move(self, vel):
        self.y += vel

    def off_screen(self, height):
        return not(self.y <= height and self.y >= 0)

    def collision(self, obj):
        return collide(obj, self)
class Object:
    CoolDown = 30

    def __init__(self, x, y, health=100):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        self.health = health
        self.ship_img = None
        self.laser_image = None
        self.laser = []
        self.cool_down_counter = 0

    
    def draw(self, window):
        window.blit(self.ship_img, (self.x, self.y))
        for laser in self.laser:
            laser.draw(window)

    def move_laser(self, vel, obj):
        self.cooldown()
        for laser in self.laser:
            laser.move(vel)
            if laser.off_screen(HEIGHT):
                self.laser.remove(laser)
            elif laser.collision(obj):
                obj.health -= 10
                self.laser.remove(laser)


    def cooldown(self):
        if self.cool_down_counter >= self.CoolDown:
            self.cool_down_counter = 0
        elif self.cool_down_counter > 0:
            self.cool_down_counter += 1

    def shoot(self):
        if self.cool_down_counter == 0:
            laser = Laser(self.x, self.y, self.laser_image)
            self.laser.append(laser)
            self.cool_down_counter = 1

    def get_width(self):
        return self.ship_img.get_width()

    def get_height(self):
        return self.ship_img.get_height()```
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class PlayerShip(Object):
    def __init__(self, x, y, health=100):
        super().__init__(x, y, health)

        self.ship_img = UFO
        self.laser_image = BLUE_LASER
        self.mask = pygame.mask.from_surface(self.ship_img)
        self.max_health = health

    def move_laser(self, vel, objs):
        self.cooldown()
        for laser in self.laser:
            laser.move(vel)
            if laser.off_screen(HEIGHT):
                self.laser.remove(laser)
            else:
                for obj in objs:
                    if laser.collision(obj):
                        objs.remove(obj)
                        self.laser.remove(laser)```
dawn quiver
dawn quiver
split temple
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No module named 'Tkinter'

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why is that, i am trying to import from it but it keeps giving me an error

pearl linden
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fnap 2 in working

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yipee

brisk yew
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are you watching some old af tutorial on tkinter or sth?

split temple
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maybe i checked an old thread from stack overflow

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thanks

split temple
brisk yew
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nope

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it's tkinter.Button(...)

split temple
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oooooh

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thanks again

solemn topaz
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I have a quick question.

If I made a game on python, where would I be able to publish it?

brisk yew
solemn topaz
manic totem
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i watch this guy tutorial video and i saw he just add that and it work

cold storm
dry cloak
brisk yew
dry cloak
brisk yew
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welp

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but yeah, there are a bunch of others features that you may benefit from still

inner falcon
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Hello guys, I am currently a beginner in Python and want to become able to make games with it.

What Python concepts should I absolutely learn before starting to learn Pygame?

brisk yew
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basically just learn OOP

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and the stuff below it, like working with data structures such as lists and dicts, understand functions

pliant patrol
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lists ?

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classes ?

dry cloak
# inner falcon Hello guys, I am currently a beginner in Python and want to become able to make ...

its not necessarily python concepts you need to know, its more just general programming concepts if you want to be able to do the basics

100% you need to know/understand functions
basic data types (numbers, arrays/lists, strings, booleans)
reading/writing to files + different file types (very important if you want to be able to save game progress)
objects/classes (OOP - object oriented programming) will also be extremely useful as matiiss said
different libraries/modules (imports) and what they each are capable of (e.g. you will need to learn a graphics library if you want to make games with graphics)
and basic maths (not really a programming concept, aslong as you have atleast a basic maths ability then you should be fine)

red tusk
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@inner falcon programming basics

marble jewel
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cold storm
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@dry cloak @brisk yew - upbge engine supports python - we can pass data to shaders also using mesh attributes

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one can use 'object color' and add it to uv - and keyframe object color using 'constant' keyframes to make sprite actions

pearl linden
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teaser to my next project

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acoustic herald
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Hey! Would anyone like to team up and make a game using pygame?

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Mention me or reply to msg so i get pinged

dry cloak
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is this for some kind of gamejam? @acoustic herald

acoustic herald
dry cloak
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aye

well are you a skilled developer, novice or just okay

because im not gonna tag along if im gonna be a liability

acoustic herald
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Im pretty good ig

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Or idk

dry cloak
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well do you have any past projects?

acoustic herald
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Few

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Few games for game jams

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Mainly for GDKO game jams

half flare
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Hey I need a little help with perlin noise. So I have a script that generates a text map. so far it just randomly picks a number between 1 and 2 and puts it in a 20 x 20 block of numbers. SO what I wanna do is use a perlin noise generator to make a "heightmap" for me to use as a map. I've tried a few libraries, but for some reason I can't get them to generate perlin. Am I doing something wrong ?

dry cloak
half flare
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I had to install stuff from somewhere else and fixes that people made, but i couldn't manage.

dry cloak
half flare
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That was a while ago. I have to add. I am revisiting and old project of mine.

dry cloak
acoustic herald
half flare
acoustic herald
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So basically a nice and chill project

dry cloak
half flare
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@dry cloak I got it working. I can't remember using perlin-noise ever, but the example I got here does exactly what I want. Thanks for the help 🙂

dry cloak
acoustic herald
dry cloak
half flare
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Speaking of art. I made a bunch of hexagonal Monster logos and I think they look great. Imade a bunch of hexagonal forest, desert and tundra tiles, but I lost them.

dry cloak
half flare
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I was so impressed with myself xD
Aseprite is great for pixel art. other than that I can't do art.

half flare
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only source I have.

IMG-20230524-WA0065.jpg
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I made so many more.

dry cloak
dry cloak
half flare
acoustic herald
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Are you good at making physics and possibly shooting stuff?

dry cloak
acoustic herald
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Nice

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I havent ever even heard of pymunk

acoustic herald
dawn quiver
white prawn
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made a ticktac toe

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a while back

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like a few years ago

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i was digging thru old repls/ coding projects

quasi patrol
woven scaffold
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Well done

solemn flicker
woven scaffold
solemn flicker
pallid patio
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I've been having this utterly annoying bug where my character does a sort of half jump before being able to properly jump. I can't seem to find any solution to this

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import pygame as pg

from entity import entity
from bullet import bullet
from screen import screen
from scene2 import mask
...

#| Function that deals with  hit detection.. should be the problem here
    def borderCol(self, obj:entity) -> None:
        for maskobj in mask.getMaskDict().keys():
            mask_img = maskobj.mask_img
            mask_rect = maskobj.get_mask_rect()

            offset_x = obj.rect.x - mask_rect.x

            offset_y = obj.y - mask_rect.y


            # overlap = mask_img.overlap(mask_img, (offset_x, offset_y))

            #current problem with mask - jumping odesn't work so great..

            if offset_y > 623:
                # print(obj.rect.y)
                # obj.vel_y = 0
                obj.y -= 20
                obj.jump = False
            else:
                obj.dy = 0
dawn quiver
half flare
brisk yew
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and why have you named classes in snake_case? they should in PascalCase, so it would be from entity import Entity and so on, so that there's some distinction

dawn quiver
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@acoustic herald hello. I might be interested in helping.

dawn quiver
half flare
# dawn quiver I noticed you are making a game with hexagon pieces. Do you have a method for s...

I put a lot of thinking into it and wondered how I'm gonna render the hexagons to slow in correctly to make a honeycomb pattern. I got it down in my head, getting it into code is a lot trickier than I though. I did try it, but lost motivation and got side tracked by other things. I do design each of them individually and save them in an individual file. I feel like having a spritesheet would be better, but I decided against it. The idea is to render perlin noise, convert the image to a text file that contains the height of each pixel based on its brightness value. so black would be the top of a mountain and white would be a lake or a river, and then have another script or function generate tiles based on the values. It's incredibly complex for my abilities, but that's the basic idea.Farther than that I haven't gotten. Unfortunately.

dawn quiver
dawn quiver
dawn quiver
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I would like to help get the math right for storing and displaying the pieces.

dawn quiver
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Some of the formulas will not work correctly since you are using sprites and they are pixel based.

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Probably want to use offset coordinates

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alright well nevermind then

pallid patio
proper peak
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bit late to change to a different case abbreviation for the classes
Is it? If you're using an IDE, you can probably do it in a few minutes by using e.g. VSCode's "rename symbol".

proper peak
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When you stop jumping, you do obj.y -= 20; perhaps reset it to some initial y instead?

pallid patio
pallid patio
dawn quiver
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It could be that you need to tinker with the values a bit. I first thought it was my logic but after tinkering with the values i got a decent jump.

half flare
acoustic herald
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Sry

dawn quiver
pallid patio
dawn quiver
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For jumping it should be as simple as adding a negative velocity to your character and letting gravity bring it back down

pallid patio
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related functions that could be the fault here -- don't think they are, though

#| called when character jumps
...
    def jumpEx(self, *obj:entity) -> None:
        """Sets the exception making objects obey their gravity variable and jump.

        Args:
            obj (entity): the objects to obey the exception
        """
        for o in obj:
            if o.jump:
                o.vel_y += o.gravity                
                o.dy += o.vel_y
...

...
#| entity draw function

    def draw(self, screen: screen, scale=False, coord=(0,0)):
        """Draw the entity to the game screen [Overwirtes the object function]

        Args:
            screen (screen): Game screen object
            scale (bool, optional): Whether to scale the object or not. Defaults to True.
            coord (tuple, optional): The coordinates of the of the object to . Defaults to (0,0).
        """

        self.rect.x += self.dx
        self.rect.y += self.dy

        self.gx += self.dx
        self.gy += self.dy

        self.x = coord[0] + self.rect.x - (self.imgoffset[0] * self.scale) 
        self.y  = coord[1] + self.rect.y - (self.imgoffset[1] * self.scale)

       

        if self.img == "": pg.draw.rect(screen.SCREEN, (255,0,0), self.rect)
        else: 
            # pg.draw.rect(screen.SCREEN, (255,0,0), self.rect)
            self.img = pg.transform.flip(self.anim_list[self.action][self.frame_index], self.charaFlip, False)

            super().draw(screen, scale, (self.x , self.y))
...
pallid patio
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the jump works fine as long as the collision works fine, the problem being the latter

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which is why the code snippet I showed earlier related to the collision calculation, and not the jump itself

dawn quiver
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why not do a simple rectangle vs rectangle collision instead.

pallid patio
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because I want to feed a mask image into the code and easily get out a mask level that the character traverses, that corresponds to the underlying image for the level screen

half flare
pallid patio
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so optimally this would mean I can just draw a level in paint and it works directly since it just checks for the collisions with the mask created from said level

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^ using a static value for the character to return to breaks this, which, well yeah it fixes the problem but also kind of defeats the purpose

pallid patio
dawn quiver
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Gotcha Part of the problem with using rectangles instead of masks is that it is difficult to place them. If you had soem sor of editor to place them then it would be easier.

pallid patio
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yeah I'm sort of jumping that problem entirely by creating masks from an image I feed into a class and then render when appropriate

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so then I can draw a big dumb rectangle on paint and get back something I can use for my level

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took me a little while to write but I think it works decently well

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surprisingly nice performance wise, too, if not a little messy

dawn quiver
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import pygame as pg

from entity import entity
from bullet import bullet
from screen import screen
from scene2 import mask
...

#| Function that deals with  hit detection.. should be the problem here
    def borderCol(self, obj:entity) -> None:
        for maskobj in mask.getMaskDict().keys():
            mask_img = maskobj.mask_img
            mask_rect = maskobj.get_mask_rect()

            offset_x = obj.rect.x - mask_rect.x

            offset_y = obj.y - mask_rect.y


            # overlap = mask_img.overlap(mask_img, (offset_x, offset_y))

            #current problem with mask - jumping odesn't work so great..

            if offset_y > 623:
                # print(obj.rect.y)
                # obj.vel_y = 0
                obj.y -= 20
                obj.jump = False
            else:
                obj.dy = 0
dawn quiver
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this doesnt make sense to me

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shouldn't you pass in two masks

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instead of one

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Did i ask stupid question or did you find the problem XD

pallid patio
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it should be

overlap = mask_img.overlap(obj.img, (offset_x, offset_y))
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or something of the like

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unless I'm missing something here

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but it shouldn't matter nonetheless, I don't need to calculate the overlap

dawn quiver
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I thought you needed the overlap to test if something has collided or not

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Also youd need to reset the player by a difference calcualted from the overlap

pallid patio
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all the overlap is is a boolean value of whether or not maskA collided with maskB

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in this case I just need to know the offset between the mask and the collision anyway

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the calculations are at the offset

pallid patio
dawn quiver
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hmm

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In the video you posted are you supposed to be on top of the sand or in the middle like in the video

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hmm or are you using a invisible mask for collision

pallid patio
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the position is fine

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I can adjust it if needed

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the problem is purely the bug cited

dawn quiver
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Well if it were me I would do some preliminary tests. For example I would test my undstanding of masks and their offsets by making a lil demo program. Then get jumping to work with only jump code and a static line to return to. Then try to merge them together

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oh

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also

pallid patio
dawn quiver
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            if offset_y > 623:
                # print(obj.rect.y)
                # obj.vel_y = 0
                obj.y -= 20
                obj.jump = False
            else:
                obj.dy = 0
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Also the else branch does not make sense to me

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actually this whole thing does not make sense to me

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if offset_y > 623: I take this to mean if the player is 623 units above the ground

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Then in my mind gravity should effect the players velocity

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and you should add the velocity to the players position

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I am just guessing at this point.

pallid patio
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with all due respect I don't have the time or patience to explain to you how this code works - it's a pretty rudementry mask collision algorithm, most of which is both readable and simple to understand. at most the only weird part would be getting the masks from a list of masks in a dictionary

dawn quiver
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I am not confused by the mask collision

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I am confused by what i just posted

pallid patio
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They aren't relevent; yes I could (and probably should) use the object's gravity affection to push them downwards, but it isn't going to change much about how the object gets pushed down besides being at the correct rate (it doesn't fix the problem, it just makes the jump react at the correct rate), remember that this isn't final code. it's debugging code. Changing the dy value by 20 over changing the velocity value isn't relevant to the problem I'm having here

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I've infact experimented with changing different values but with no avail

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there's certainly something wrong here but using vel instead of dy isn't it as far as I can tell

dawn quiver
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dy and velocity are pretty much the same.

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dy is just the y component of velocity

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Anyways good luck

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I mean i have time.

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If you want i could try and debug this myself

dawn quiver
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Yes no maybe?

dawn quiver
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Gonna figure out this shit.

pallid patio
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fine mate I'll put it on github

dawn quiver
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I just need something to do is all

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I am bored

pallid patio
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no worries yeah, I appreciate it

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just fork the repo and send me the link if you do figure it out

dawn quiver
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I got an update

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"Returns a new pygame.Rect()pygame object for storing rectangular coordinates object based on the size of this mask. The rect's default position will be (0, 0) and its default width and height will be the same as this mask's. The rect's attributes can be altered via pygame.Rect()pygame object for storing rectangular coordinates attribute keyword arguments/values passed into this method. As an example, a_mask.get_rect(center=(10, 5)) would create a pygame.Rect()pygame object for storing rectangular coordinates based on the mask's size centered at the given position."

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this means offset_x = obj.rect.x - mask_rect.x will always be obj.rect.x

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the rectangle you get from get_rect on a mask will always have a position of 0, 0

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If you didn't already know

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You should instead subtract the position of the obstacle from the position of the player

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That will be your offset.

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Overlap will return the pixel coordinate starting from the topleft of the obstacles mask where the collision took place.

dawn quiver
pallid patio
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mask_rect is not a mask of the object

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but it doesn't matter we don't need the x offset anyway, we just need the y one

dawn quiver
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Mind if i DM

pallid patio
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sure

dawn quiver
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I just want to show some code

pallid patio
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yep go ahead

dawn quiver
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@half flare Hello. Whenever you are ready I'd like to help.

half flare
dawn quiver
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is there a python 3d game dev lib

eternal hatch
dawn quiver
eternal hatch
dawn quiver
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Hey @half flare How are you doing? 😄

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I like your name. Is that german for lightning?

dawn quiver
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It is a recreation of the game Hive.

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It was a lot of fun to make

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I used a simple two dimensional array to store the hexagons

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some bit fiddling for move generation as well as hashmaps.

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@versed aurora Hey. Want to participate in a challenge? We each make a hexagon chess that works in command prompt.

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I don't know if it should be time based or some other criteria

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Well eh its not a fair challenge. I have experience with this stuff.

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But you sort of do too. You make lot of cool things that works in command prompt

lyric gale
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Hi guys, I'm starting to create games with pygame, and I'm having a problem in the collisions

My code:


    obs1 = pygame.draw.rect(tela, (255,0,0), (obstaculo1_posY, obstaculo1_posX, obstaculos_largura, obstaculos_altura)) # Obstaculo
    obs2 = pygame.draw.rect(tela, (255,255,255), (obstaculo2_posY, obstaculo2_posX, obstaculos_largura, obstaculos_altura)) # Obstaculo
    obs3 = pygame.draw.rect(tela, (0,255,255), (obstaculo3_posY, obstaculo3_posX, obstaculos_largura, obstaculos_altura)) # Obstaculo
    obs4 = pygame.draw.rect(tela, (255, 0, 255), (obstaculo4_posY, obstaculo4_posX, obstaculos_largura, obstaculos_altura)) # Obstaculo

 # Colisões ( Caso aconteça ) PT-BR
    if player.colliderect(obs1):
        possivel_subir = False
    if player.colliderect(obs2):
        possivel_descer = False
    if player.colliderect(obs3):
        possivel_subir = False
    if player.colliderect(obs4):
        possivel_descer = False

Code summary: I am creating 4 obstacles, and when player finds in 1 or 3 (the obstacles from above) it can no longer rise, that is, it will crash, but if the player finds in 2 or 4, it will not be able to descen

The problem, is that the collisions are only happening in the 1 and 2 obstacles, and when you find in the 3 and 4, the var that speaks to whether the player can go up or down does not change

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Lib: pygame

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Help meeeee

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Plss

half flare
half flare
# dawn quiver I like your name. Is that german for lightning?

There's a mission in Farcry 3 where you meet a German guy called Sam. And in one mission he yells "BLITZKRIEG!" and charges to whatever.
At the time I was really into the German language and since I progress quite fast in games and stuff I chose Blitz along with a incorrect spelling of my name cause people can't say "Craig" correctly for some reason. I'm not German. XD

half flare
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Really thinking of dodging Pygame for the rendering and using matplotlib instead. Don't know the complications of it. I'm used to Pygame by now.

half flare
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and putting it in a loop to check for the collisions ?

half flare
median linden
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check out my code its in its alpha stage

dawn quiver
half flare
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How are you rendering hexagons?

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If it is sprite based you will want to use a staggered grid.

half flare
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Haven't started with that yet XD

dawn quiver
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find the step in the x and y direction that makes them fit together

half flare
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yes.

dawn quiver
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then offset every row

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by some amount in the x direction

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or whichever way they are oriented.

dawn quiver
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dawn quiver
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If you have any trouble coding something. Like if there is a hard to find bug just let me know.

half flare
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I will. Thanks buddy 🙂

median linden
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what do u think of my code

dawn quiver
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!paste

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dawn quiver
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It is just a paste site for viewing code.

median linden
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here u go

dawn quiver
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    if keys[pygame.K_a] and ship.x - player_vel > 0:  # left
            ship.x -= player_vel
    if keys[pygame.K_d] and ship.x + player_vel + 50 < WIDTH: # right
            ship.x += player_vel
    if keys[pygame.K_w] and ship.y - player_vel > 0: # up
            ship.y -= player_vel
    if keys[pygame.K_s] and ship.y + player_vel + 50 < WIDTH: # down
            ship.y += player_vel
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This could be rewritten as separate conditions

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Instead of checking if you go offscreen and if a key is pressed

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Just let the player move anywhere

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and clamp it down at the end

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    if keys[pygame.K_a]:  # left
            ship.x -= player_vel
    if keys[pygame.K_d]: # right
            ship.x += player_vel
    if keys[pygame.K_w]: # up
            ship.y -= player_vel
    if keys[pygame.K_s]: # down
            ship.y += player_vel
    if ship.x + 50 > WIDTH:
            ship.x = WIDTH - 50
    if ship.x < 0:
            ship.x = 0
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Do it for the y coordinate too

dawn quiver
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Keep track of the players width in there so the magic number 50 goes away.

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but i mean it works

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That is just what id do

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Just being a lil bit more tidy

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But hope whatever you do you make something youd be proud of

median linden
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alright thanks for the advice

dawn quiver
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make a surface, draw to that, flip it, display it

dawn quiver
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It may be because you did not read the documentation for the transform function.

dawn quiver
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Is it?

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pygame.transform.rotate(self.screen, 180), (0, 0) do you assign this to anything?

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Sorry answer my question

dawn quiver
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Do you assign that to anything?

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alright fair enough

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Did you try making a surface and rendering to that instead?

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That way you can flip it.

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I am not sure.

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In OpenGL there is usually two buffers.

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hmm'

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Yeah sorry i don't know.

half flare
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It works. Sort of. Now to figure out how to remove that gap.

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anyone knows godot 3.0?

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hey all

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lokin for a pixel artist for my game

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anyone there?

tranquil girder
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are you using Python?

simple pivot
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What are those?

half flare
simple pivot
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Each polygon has shift up half of side of hexagon

half flare
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Yes

simple pivot
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I am not good at coding but can i see it private chat

simple pivot
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If the code works then works

Ineed to know how much width and height are tjose hexanols are going to be

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Count x of hexagonals of blue

Before displaying and going to start displaying x =》 direction check whether you displayed 8 hexagonals if so then make the y = y + (hexagonal half)

simple pivot
half flare
# simple pivot There you go if it is understandable

The code is straightforward and focused on one thing. I just gotta figure out how to remove the gaps between the rows. Not sure yet, but yeah, if the number in World_WIDTH is uneven it renders hexagons and the uneven ones get moved to the right.

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I just can't seem to figure out why there's a space between the rows.

simple pivot
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In line 85 if statement. Checks whether that is last hexagonal or not if so change chnage y =y - (hexagonal *0.5 )

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If that is not working then i really dont know what will

simple pivot
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I am sorry about my poor English

half flare
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No problem. I've had a long day. I'm proper tired.

median linden
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guys look at my code

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nah bro sorry 😢

dawn quiver
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made this with it

dawn quiver
half flare
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oh damn

half flare
tropic snow
dawn quiver
dawn quiver
half flare
solid mesa
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solid mesa
half flare
solid mesa
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Yeah

proper peak
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godot also has a python plugin

brisk yew
brisk yew
worthy latch
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Anyone know any popular open source text-based games made in Python?

I’d be curious to check out their code and see how they work

versed aurora
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i do

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I’ve made a few

versed aurora
# worthy latch Anyone know any popular open source text-based games made in Python? I’d be cur...

https://github.com/Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts/blob/main/snake_v_2.1.py

https://github.com/Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts/blob/main/2048.py

https://youtu.be/PxgxcOSE-F8

https://youtu.be/Guh8evT68JY

GitHub
gloop_scripts/snake_v_2.1.py at main · Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts

yeah. Contribute to Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
gloop_scripts/2048.py at main · Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts

yeah. Contribute to Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

YouTube
gloop :)
Snake In Python

this is just a small demo of a script i wrote, it's a bit of a mess but it works
(i kinda suck at playing snake)

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gloop :)
2048 in Python

Like the other python videos, this is displaying a script I wrote from scratch (this actually is using text graphics), you can find it at https://github.com/Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts/blob/main/2048.py

I've tried to keep it as accurate to the game as reasonable, though one difference I added (mainly to save me a headache of coding) is that when t...

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hope these help

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my methods for these weren’t ideal tho

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for snake, i hardcoded the menus, and the rendering isn’t that great, since it’s concatting to a string , better to use a list afaik

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feel free to ask questions about the inner working of it

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I also have this:

https://github.com/Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts/blob/main/tech_test_1.py

https://youtu.be/6lZvP2yBvL0

GitHub
gloop_scripts/tech_test_1.py at main · Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts

yeah. Contribute to Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

YouTube
gloop :)
Python physics test

This is a little test I wrote to test some stuff (mainly behind the scenes), you can find it at https://github.com/Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts/blob/main/tech_test_1.py

How it works is basically you have a player or 'cursor' that you can move around the screen, you can spawn and delete particles and circles.

The particles and circles actually inte...

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my keyboard controls use this funky method i wrote, that basically polls the windows API for keystates (on linux i have it use the keyboard module), and it basically returns a list containing all the active keys, which for me works better than events because events dont work well with detecting held keys afaik, however i could possibly try something with a persistent key array and remove/add on keypress/keyrelease

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rendering uses truecolor ANSI

proper peak
versed aurora
dawn quiver
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Was 2048 made to work in command line too?

versed aurora
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yes

dawn quiver
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neat

versed aurora
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Btw i didn’t see your mention before, about the game, i might be interested

dawn quiver
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I decided to switch to OpenGL

versed aurora
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For a while i’ve been out of it due to me losing access to my meds (kinda my fault, lol)

versed aurora
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i got nAABB working if you didnt see that btw

dawn quiver
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But I havent started so I might do it in ncurses.

dawn quiver
versed aurora
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non-axis-aligned-bounding-box

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i.e collision detection on a rectangle that can be at an angle

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i did it by literally just rotating the coordinates and doing a AABB on it

dawn quiver
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I think i used SAT for that

versed aurora
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the red squares are checking for collision

dawn quiver
versed aurora
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sure 1 sec

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def point_in_box(self,point):
    corner_minimum=self.pos-self.size/2
    corner_maximum=self.pos+self.size/2
    point_rotated = rotate_coords(point,-self.angle,self.pos)
    if point_rotated.in_box(corner_minimum,corner_maximum):
        return True
    return False
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def rotate_coords(pos,angle,origin=[0,0]):
    c,s = math.cos(angle),math.sin(angle)
    pos-=origin
    new_pos = vec2(0,0)
    new_pos.x = (pos.x*c)-(pos.y*s)
    new_pos.y = (pos.x*s)+(pos.y*c)
    new_pos += origin
    return new_pos
dawn quiver
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ah so you rotate the box so you can test if a point is within an axis aligned box

versed aurora
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the idea is that a AABB is just checking if the x and y coordinates are within two vectors min and max, but you can’t do that directly if it’s angled

versed aurora
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for two boxes, i figure you can do this for each corner

dawn quiver
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yeah this is cool.

versed aurora
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it’s not very fast, but it works

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it’s two trig operations per rotation

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so not atrocious

dawn quiver
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When you are not restricted by correctness you can come up with something that works in practice

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this works becuase the objects dont move too fast

versed aurora
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If i directly copied the math it’d be 4 trig ops but i ‘pre-cached’ them if you will

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That’s an issue with literally all collision detection, to be honest

proper peak
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for collision of two nAABBs you'd need 8 point checks I think - for each point of each box, check if it's in the other

versed aurora
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At least 4, probably 8

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The real question is how to check if a point is in an arbitrary convex hull

versed aurora
dawn quiver
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yep this is true. if your player is big and the obstacles small you would need 8 point checks

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at the minimum

versed aurora
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for player detection i wouldn’t use a rect

dawn quiver
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idk

proper peak
versed aurora
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for a player, you can use discrete collision points

dawn quiver
versed aurora
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for line drawing btw i just use bresenham’s

dawn quiver
versed aurora
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not particularly, depends on the character

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I use the full block a lot

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You can get the same effect with an ansi code set to background and a space, but that does weird shit upon scaling the text or window

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i tend to prefer ascii in most cases, simply because more fonts are likely to display it, but i don’t particularly dislike using unicode

proper peak
dawn quiver
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I wanted to not use the triangles Unicode characters for the chess spaces but hexagon chess is laid out with flat toppped hexagon so doing the alternative is not great

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versed aurora
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yea

dawn quiver
versed aurora
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How many chars would the hex be? You can do it with 1 if you use fg/background trickery, but it’d be hard to add a piece there

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Also i’ve found a limitation to an extent, of how fast terminal stuff can be

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It’s how fast print() can display

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luckily most of my games tend to take up a small space; usually 30-50 chars wide

dawn quiver
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yeah

versed aurora
dawn quiver
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but that is not the only limitation

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part of it is updating the display to match what you need next frame

versed aurora
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I’ve only really ran into the print() speed issue( though i suspect it’s actually an issue of the terminal speed) on my gif player

dawn quiver
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ncurses does some trickery behind the scenes to make this fast

versed aurora
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my gif player computationally, once it processes the frames, is literally just printing frames from a list with a while and for loop, but due to how many chars it displays, it’s slow for big images

proper peak
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hmm, are you only doing one print per frame?

versed aurora
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yes

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it just caches all the frames (which are strings) to a list, and just prints, has a delay between frames with time.sleep(), then prints again

proper peak
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hmm

versed aurora
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windows terminal handles it best of all the terminals i’ve tested, but it’s a bitch to record using OBS so i tend to use cmd for my videos

proper peak
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yeah, that might be the terminal's fault

versed aurora
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I figure as much

proper peak
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what was that very fast GPU-accelerated terminal, hmm...

versed aurora
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also is there a reasonable way to do work on gpu using python?

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I’m not sure how gpu computation even works in code

proper peak
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depends on what you could as reasonable

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there's some opengl wrappers, there's numba's support for CUDA kernels...

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the former are the most feature-complete

versed aurora
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i’ve heard of numba but i’m not sure what it actually is supposed to do

proper peak
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it won't be writing python, though, opengl shaders are written in GLSL which is basically C.

dawn quiver
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Is pyglet a good option if you want to use OpenGL with python?

proper peak
proper peak
dawn quiver
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Oh that is neat

proper peak
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with a gazillion caveats, but still quite useful.

versed aurora
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ah

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How does gpu computation even work? Is it just ‘do this math, and give me a result’?

dawn quiver
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you write code that processes a vertex at a time

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and a pixel at a time

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but you also have data that is global to all shaders

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like lighting values

versed aurora
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I mean at the low level

dawn quiver
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you can pack certain data like color, position, texture coordinates, face normals and more within vertex buffers

versed aurora
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is there something in like, c to call the gpu or something? Or is it some sort of asm wrapper/library/whatever for each gpu

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oh btw, unrelated, i’ve been using the terms ‘method’ and ‘function’ interchangably but is there any actual differences?

dawn quiver
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You work with OpenGL API. They have documentation for each function.

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So it is an API

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either OpenGL or Vulkan or DirectX

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DirectX is for windows only

dawn quiver
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function is usually taken to be stand alone

versed aurora
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so method is oop then, and function is just a global thing?

dawn quiver
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methods are just tied to an instance

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they are somewhat oop in python

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becuase some methods are special

versed aurora
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that makes the ‘classmethod’ decorator a bit odd, but kk

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also i might try to learn matrix stuff, i’d like to make a matrix module, so i can do stuff like 3d graphics in terminal (yes, it’d be brutally slow, i know)

proper peak
versed aurora
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kk

dawn quiver
versed aurora
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yes, at some point

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I’ve dabbled very slightly but haven’t really made anything of substance

dawn quiver
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well you could write a module in that or find a library and adapt it by making a C python module

versed aurora
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my vector module is pure python for rn so i figure i’d make my matrix module like that as well

dawn quiver
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Would numpy work?

versed aurora
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Yeah, but i dont really like using numpy

dawn quiver
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it is probably a C module

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ah alright

versed aurora
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It’s not that it’s bad, mind you

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It’s two things, really

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  1. It’s confusing as hell (kinda just what happens when using an unfamiliar api), and 2. For me it feels TOO useful
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i do use numpy at times; mainly for when i just straight up need it, but for my games and stuff, it feels cheaty

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Btw have you seen my vector module?

dawn quiver
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no

versed aurora
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lemme get it

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It’s not super complicated, it’s basically a module with 3 classes, a ‘vec2’, ‘vec3’, and a generic ‘vec’

proper peak
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i have a handwritten module like that for Rust, but for python I just use numpy

versed aurora
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the idea is vectors are similar to lists but with operators, so you can do vec2(10,12)*vec2(10,3) and get vec2(100,36) or do vec3(10,8,6)+vec3(2,4,12) and get vec3(12,12,18)

dawn quiver
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Yeah i saw your get items so does this mean you can do slcies on them as well?

versed aurora
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Yes, i added that fairly recently

dawn quiver
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swizzle operations would be neat too

versed aurora
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swizzle?

dawn quiver
# 
a.xyz = a.zyx
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but of course adpated to python

versed aurora
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i could do that, just reversing the components?

dawn quiver
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something like a.swizzle(3, 2, 1)

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well in any order

versed aurora
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ah ok

dawn quiver
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a.xy = vec(2, 3)

versed aurora
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so it’d take a n-length vec/list of the new component order

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also, the vectors also have other functionalities like lerp, checking if a point is in a box, clamping, getting sign, dot/cross product, that sort of thing

dawn quiver
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yeah it is nice vector class.

versed aurora
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i also most recently added a generic vector that can be any (positive) length

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the vector class is also (unwittingly) the first time i used decorators

dawn quiver
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I am gonna go ahead and make some progress on hexagon chess.

versed aurora
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nice

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How big are the tiles?

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I would imagine like 3x3

dawn quiver
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I did 5 x 2

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works out becuase text cell aspect ratio

versed aurora
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You can do 1x1 with trickery using the background and foreground but actually placing stuff there would fuck up the visuals

versed aurora
dawn quiver
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well it would not be a hexagon it would just be aranged in a hexagon grid

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youd put letters

versed aurora
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gotcha

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for the pieces you could also use ascii chwrs

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the end result would be akin to dwarf fortress, i figure

dawn quiver
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See the problem is

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The flat topped hexagons dont translate to a simple grid letter approach

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since they are flat topped

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and because text aspect ratio

versed aurora
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for chess you could probably just ignore the aspect ratio thing

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for snake i ignored the aspect ratio because i determined that it’d look worse with it, than without it

dawn quiver
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_chess

Hexagonal chess

Hexagonal chess is a group of chess variants played on boards composed of hexagon cells. The best known is Gliński's variant, played on a symmetric 91-cell hexagonal board.
Since each hexagonal cell not on a board edge has six neighbor cells, there is generally increased mobility for pieces compared to a standard orthogonal chessboard. For examp...

versed aurora
dawn quiver
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like i need to have it this orientation

versed aurora
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how i imagine you’d do the chess is maybe 6x3 (or 5x3) and have the piece in the middle

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Kinda similar to how i did 2048 but with hexagons

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(I don’t recommend looking at the source for my 2048 rendering though, it’s hacky as hell)

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sorry if format is bad since im on mobile but something like

CAAAC
AAXAA
CAAAC

Where X is the piece, C is a corner, and A is the main part of the tile

dawn quiver
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something like this

versed aurora
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oh that works too

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Incredibly hard to read using asterisks but that works

dawn quiver
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ah come on

versed aurora
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also i was imagining the corners to be a sort of triangle piece where the BG is one tile’s color, and the FG is the other’s

dawn quiver
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yep thats what i did in my game

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the one in the video

versed aurora
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that one looks good ye

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how did you do mouse btw

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I assume its just a module

dawn quiver
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not all terminals support mouse. But i think most emulators now adays do

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i just used ncurses mouse functions

versed aurora
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gotcha

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I’d use curses if it was for windows without having to install a module or whatever

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i might still use it

dawn quiver
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I mean do whatever you are comfortable with.

versed aurora
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If it’s small enough i could just package it with an installer or the game/program itself

dawn quiver
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I was thinking i could do this in C and maybe show it too you

versed aurora
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I have code that works but it uses blocking input

dawn quiver
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oh yeah right we kinda need mouse

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or we just label the grid

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i think there might be a notation

versed aurora
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i’m not nearly good enough at the windows API (and keep in mind this would just be for windows, not even mentioning linux) to do it

dawn quiver
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k125

versed aurora
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you’ve gotta use like waitForEvent or some shit like that

dawn quiver
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kight one to the 25 space

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or maybe knight one to x 2 y 5

versed aurora
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it’s still a 2d grid

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The image you posted has the notation

dawn quiver
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ah alright yeah

versed aurora
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You could use 3 axes but that leads to a LOT of redundant coordinates

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which gives me an idea

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a game with a different metric space

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i guess chess is kinda like that already but i mean a game with physics and such

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(A metric, in physics, is basically just a function for a space that returns a distance between two points)

dawn quiver
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for example Manhattan distance

versed aurora
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and to be nerdy about it, a metric is any function that satisfies these 3 requirements:

  1. The distance from a point to itself is always 0,

  2. The distance between two non-identical points is positive,

  3. (Forgot this one) The distance between two points is the same regardless of order, i.e the distance from A to B is the same as the distance from B to A
    And 4. The distance between two points A and B is always equal or less than the total distance between A and B if you take a detour C

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4 requirements, actually

proper peak
dawn quiver
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hyperbolic space

proper peak
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e.g. hyperbolica

versed aurora
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Sure but that’s not really what i mean

dawn quiver
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think it was a roguelike?

versed aurora
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hyperbolic space is pretty similar to euclidean space

proper peak
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i think there's only a few metrics that are as nice as euclid. spherical, I guess, but it has the issue of being finite

versed aurora
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a space with an inconsistent geometry would be neat

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I.e some areas with positive curvature, some with negative

median linden
dawn quiver
proper peak
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so basically in general relativity? that can be done

versed aurora
median linden
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check this out

versed aurora
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for us, a spherical geometry would be a surface of a hypersphere or maybe a 4-torus

dawn quiver
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Found this guide on ncurses

versed aurora
dawn quiver
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weird name for the site

versed aurora
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but yeah by a different metric i mean something even more alien than a different curvature, because those you can wrap your head around fairly quickly

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minecraft ironically also has its own metric space, but only for blocks

dawn quiver
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oh my god that is so cool

versed aurora
dawn quiver
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that is insane i wonder he was inside the house but not

versed aurora
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In that picture they’re outside of it

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you can think of a spherical space less like a literal sphere and more like a euclidean space where the coordinates loop around

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it’s not quite accurate but it’s a start

versed aurora
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and angles are also different, so you can have either a square with 3 sides, or a triangle with 90 degree angles (depending on how you define shapes)

proper peak
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i feel like no, though I don't know enough manifold algebra to say for sure

versed aurora
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for instance, you can have a metric for strings, the distance being the amount of single-character alterations to transform one string to another

proper peak
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actually once I thought about it for a few seconds I remembered greg egan's 3-adica, and his books in general

versed aurora
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greg egan is such a based author

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he’s like what i aspire to be in terms of physics knowledge

proper peak
versed aurora
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there’s also stuff he’s written like dichronauts and orthoganal

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but for a different metric space, a possible idea i had was something entirely abstract from normal geometry at all

half flare
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I DID IT ! HAHA !

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I am so happy. I've been struggling with this for like 4 months. a small victory, but WORTH IT !

versed aurora
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pog

half flare
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SO pog

dawn quiver
eternal vessel
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Noice noice

versed aurora
kindred sandal
versed aurora
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thx

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i manually input all the configs lmao

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maybe i can rotate them actually but for now this works

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im fairly sure this is also how the actual game does it

kindred sandal
versed aurora
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im not using numpy but if i want to rotate its fairly trivial

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just swapping x and y coords

kindred sandal
versed aurora
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time to figure out tile physics

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i might just have the tiles instantiate as part of the block and then just rotate that

versed aurora
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i did that, yeah

dawn quiver
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ah knight and king

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changed it to n

kindred sandal
dawn quiver
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have you played it?

kindred sandal
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Hexagons are annoying to do coordinates for lol

dim hinge
versed aurora
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by rotating the coordinates using a simple function

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next i’ll add proper falling

half flare
kindred sandal
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hexagons are complicated

half flare
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Hexagons are bestagons.

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I struggled a Iot last night but finally got them rendering correctly.

half flare
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Selector

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and some VERY simple graphics xD

pine plinth
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cute graphics 😊

half flare
# pine plinth cute graphics 😊

I had so many nice tile designs, but I lost them. Don't know if I overwrote them or deleted them by accident, but they looked SO good.

dawn quiver
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does anyone want to join my redcap team i need some peeps to recreate first5demo pvz

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Uh

rustic iris
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hey @dawn quiver I might be able to help/join, but I have no idea what you just said. What's a redcap, what's a first5demo and what does pvz mean?

dawn quiver
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and first5demo is lost proto of PvZ which we will recreate

rustic iris
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proto as in prototype?

dawn quiver
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we make game based in first5demo

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@rustic iris that hoq it will look

image.png
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in pygame

rustic iris
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what have you done already?

dawn quiver
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but that team will be GC group

rustic iris
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what's a GC? I'm very old and English is not my native language, sorry

dawn quiver
dawn quiver
median linden
dawn quiver
median linden
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intresting

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well check out this

dawn quiver
median linden
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sure

vernal kite
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any here that knows where i can find information regardign making a text adventure game

versed aurora
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not specifically, but a text adventure is literally the easiest type of game to make

vernal kite
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well yes i know that, the problem is just that i do wish for it to atleast have some flavor to it, and not just be text, but with some imagin

versed aurora
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you can have images for each room, that's a start

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but then it becomes less 'text adventure' and more 'point and click game'

vernal kite
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well i can show you what i have been woring on regarind the images, witch just is just meant to switch in regard to where you are, and what is happening, there is realy no interaction with the images

half flare
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Oh thanks. I'll check

lime aurora
versed aurora
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yeah, tetris

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:p

lime aurora
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oh

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you should name it PyTris

versed aurora
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possibly

lime aurora
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I named my 3D game in-development pyCraft because its similar to minecraft

versed aurora
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its from scratch btw

lime aurora
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nice

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same with mine

versed aurora
lime aurora
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thats nice

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im using PyGame and OpenGL

versed aurora
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i might use opengl sometime but for now i do text graphics mainly

versed aurora
lime aurora
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alright

versed aurora
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ive posted it here before but here's the shitfuck that is my keyboard input, it returns an array of active keys :p

image.png
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i might make it its own module, maybe if i can get keyboard states directly on linux i can have it entirely from scratch

dawn quiver
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I wanted to try this way instead of the triangle characters

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The colors are nice.

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gotta make the rank and file letter and numbers

dawn quiver
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I plan on using bitboards. For now though i am going to just use an array of pieces.

versed aurora
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nice

dawn quiver
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I was thinking it would be cool to work on a project together

versed aurora
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possibly

dawn quiver
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maybe a text based rogulike

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or a board game

vernal kite
dawn quiver
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There are a couple of modules that come to mind.

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blessed and pygcurse

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pygcurse is built on top of pygame. it emulates a terminal within pygame window.

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so you can call pygame functions to do drawing as well as pygcurse functions to interface with its terminal

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blessed is a ncurses wrapper. I believe it is cross platform. ie for both windows and linux.

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You will want to become familiar with the node data structure.

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It is used to link the parts of the text based adventure together

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like paths.

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If you are just getting started with python. Learn the language by reading a book as well as documentation on python standard modules. Then test your understanding by writing small programs to complete a task.

vernal kite
marble jewel
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Isometria Devlog 22 - Multiple Players, Encoders and Decoders, Bugs Galore!!! https://youtu.be/kEr7sF7ZTk8

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cosmic wolf
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hey

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i am having bit of a troubles

vernal kite
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i hope that you do not hand it over to me, i allready got enogh of it

versed aurora
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i tend to write my code as super unpolished at first and then once it works i go through and clean it up

vernal kite
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can any one tell me as to whty i get

TypeError: unhashable type: 'pygame.color.Color'

when this code is run,

win.setscreencolors('lime', 'blue', clear=True)

as i do have a hard time lerning how to use pygame/pycurse, when the codes i am given to test out does not work

dry cloak
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wdym pygame/pycurse?

ive never head of pycurse before, but from what i can gather from a quick google search they share nothing?

untold ginkgo
dry cloak
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ohh so it turns pygame into a terminal?

vernal kite
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so i just found a date add on to my game

dry cloak
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to make text-based games i presume

vernal kite
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it was the intent yes

untold ginkgo
dry cloak
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but why dont you just use the built in pygame.font.Font?

untold ginkgo
vernal kite
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because, i do not know anything about oygame, and this was the road i want down wheen looking for stuff, so if you can point me to where i can look into the information you just gave me i will be delighted

dry cloak
dry cloak
vernal kite
dry cloak
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pygame.org has docs on how to use everything in pygame

you can even find new interesting things when scrolling through the docs, like i had no idea pygame supported controllers until i came across it

although the website is pretty ugly 💀

vernal kite
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what is this 2004

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dry cloak
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yeah it dosent even have a dark mode 💀

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although if you use pygame-ce it has a dark mode

image.png
vernal kite
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-ce?

dry cloak
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community edition

vernal kite
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arr

dry cloak
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its just pygame with more features

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you could get away with reading the pygame-ce docs if you only use regular pygame but not everything you read on it exsists in regular pygame

like text-wrapping for fonts

vernal kite
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well that is nice to know

dry cloak
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anyways good luck with your project(s)

vernal kite
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it is just one, for know, but is thinking of having it "evlovle" so that it becomes more and more complex per edition

dry cloak
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sounds cool

vernal kite
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yeah, for now it is just meant to be a text game, but wish for it to go and be 2d, and maybe in the end 3d

versed aurora
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you can also do text graphics which is what i do mainly

vernal kite
versed aurora
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i made those entirely from scratch

vernal kite
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looks nice, a little rough, but who am i to complain, when i cant even open a window

median linden
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check this out

vernal kite
untold ginkgo
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Code repeating ducky_vader

vernal kite
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can any one give me a exsample, of where, and how to place rect into this code

import pygame

pygame.init()
screen_width = 1200
screen_height = 576
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode([screen_width, screen_height])
running = True

while running:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False
    screen.fill("black")
    pygame.display.flip()
    clock.tick(45)

pygame.font.init()

pygame.quit()
dawn quiver
vernal kite
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oh sorry, did figure it out, but I was in no need of rect, as I needed to place in image, and got the taken care off. so nowbi just need a terminal Window, for showing the output of the code, and maybe a input area

dawn quiver
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you know what pyagme.display.flip does?

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in simple terms it just presents what you have drawn to the screen

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so you call drawing functions before flip and after clear

dawn quiver
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you can run python scripts by opening up command prompt and running them from there and you will see the output of your code

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as well as the pygame / pygcurse window

vernal kite
dawn quiver
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So you made something with pygcurse and are now trying to port that to exclusively pygame?

inland field
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its my first time using pygame

vernal kite
vernal kite
pine plinth
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if you share your code, it will greatly simplify the task

vernal kite
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if you are talking to me, "i do not have a code for it", if you are talking to "Pimentinha delas" then "yes indeed"

pine plinth
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oh, im sorry
i thought you two are the same person, you have similar profile pictures :(

vernal kite
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he is a person i am a shape, surely a person do have shapes, but a shape do not (to my understanding) have persons

pine plinth
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you are a shape, and you have yourself, so a shape can have a person 🤔

vernal kite
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take note of the s, in persons

pine plinth
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if you are pregnant, then you have yourself and your baby, but idk if baby is considered a person

vernal kite
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that depends on hwere you are

dawn quiver
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guys

vernal kite
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yes?

dawn quiver
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I need feedback to see what I need to improve in my project, I would appreciate anyone who could contribute

vernal kite
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well can give it a try, but i do have little know how of what to fix

dawn quiver
vernal kite
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what is that (voxel game)

dawn quiver
dawn quiver
# vernal kite what is that (voxel game)

Voxel games are a type of video game that utilize voxel graphics, which are three-dimensional pixels. Unlike traditional games that use polygons to represent objects and environments, voxel games represent them using small cube-shaped units called voxels. Each voxel can have its own properties, such as color, texture, or material.

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I'm using Pyglet and OpenGL

vernal kite
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i see

dawn quiver
dawn quiver
rustic iris
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@dawn quiver it's... an empty repo?

dawn quiver
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but I didn't want them to see the codes, there was step by step how it was going to be done and I wanted to see if it was all right

rustic iris
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looks fine to me on a quick glance. You should probably update/detail stuff as you figure it out

dawn quiver
vernal kite
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any that can tell me how i might be able to change images while running pygame, and have the image change in acordiance to another pythone code that is running behind ti

proper peak
vernal kite
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what is this, the new wisndows xp screen saver

dry cloak
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looks pretty cool

quasi patrol
quasi patrol
young gate
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built my own 3d and animation system

wheat gazelle
brisk yew
young gate
untold ginkgo
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xdd

sturdy sandal
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im working on a roguelike game and this is a random showcase of the new lightning item

dry cloak
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looks cool

merry jacinth
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You should publish it to the world, like a demo

vernal kite
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any one that can telll me what i need to get text form another python file shown in a display

slender nacelle
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Hello, so i have been followinf clear code's tutorial on how to make pydew valley(a copy of stardew valley using pygame), i actually got some trouble with spawning the apples, which is randomized, sometimes when i start the game they just refuse to spawn, no idea why, initially did the coding alone after watching and understanding how it works, then i wrote exactly as in the tutorial and finally downloaded the project files from the tutorial but i still have the same problem

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This thing keeps crashing my game in some special cases like cutting trees down or restarting the day

untold ginkgo
brisk yew
vernal kite
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sure but let me get home first

vernal summit
# 
 import random 
"""" this is the import random statements"""

def get_choices():
  player_choice = input(" Enter a choice (rock, paper, scissors) ")
  options = ["paper", "rock", "scissors"]
  computer_choice = random.choice(options)

  choices = {"player" : player_choice, "computer" : computer_choice}
  return choices 
""" function that allows users and computer to choose between rock or paper"""

def check_win(player, computer):
  print(f"you chose {player} and computer chose {computer} ")
  if player == computer: 
       return ("it's a tie!")
  elif player == "rock":
    if computer == "scissors":
      return "Rock smashes scissors you win"
    else: 
      return "paper covers rock! you lose"

  elif player == "paper":
    if computer == "rock":
      return "paper covers rock, you win"
    else: 
      return "scissors cuts paper, you lose"

  elif player == "scissors":
    if computer == "paper":
      return "scissors cuts paper, you win"
    else: 
      return "rock smashes scissors, you lose"
""" function that uses refactoring nested if to check who wins, and who lost"""

choices = get_choices()

result = check_win(choices["player"] , choices["computer"])
print(result)
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i can't beat the computer in my own game

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LOL

vernal kite
# brisk yew could you be any more specific about what you mean?

so i do have a display, made with pygame, that i wish to have a "display" with in, that shows the out put, or just have the python terminal placed into, so is asking if any knows how to take text form another file, and have it shown in the "display", that is with in pygame display

brisk yew
vernal kite
daring portal
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hello I am new

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I am developing my first game in python

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It is a text based game using tkinter and JS

brisk yew
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lmao what

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game in Python using tkinter that's not meant for it and JS that's another language altogether

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also it being text based

untold ginkgo
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There was someone who said that he is making a 3d engine in tkinter xd

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And he was asking how to change text size in label 😅

thick beacon
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I have been trying to come up with something similar in function for instance to MTG's layers https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Layer. My problem is when I have modifiers that modify modifiers I start to get exponential time complexity. With every new modifier of a modifier. Here is a bare bones example of how I am currently going about this: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/Y7OQ I am just looking for some other ideas if anyone has any.

normal silo
thick beacon
normal silo
thick beacon
# normal silo Ok, but can you put some numbers to it? Lets just start really big. Will you hav...

Well when I did a test with a 1000 value modifiers and only 17 modifiers of a modifier it was taking 1 minute to run. If I dropped the modifiers of modifiers to 16 it was down to ~30 seconds, down to 15 ~16 seconds and 14 ~8 seconds ect... I zeroed in my recursive function. Since for each modifier it runs those modifiers modifiers and for each of those modifiers it also checks those modifiers modifiers to see if it applies to them ect.

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if I add 18 it then take 2 minutes with the time doubling with every modifier of a modifier hence exponential.

normal silo
thick beacon
# normal silo Ok, I don't really know what the fundamental problem is so I can't really say if...

well with a game like magic there are copy effects to copy other cards. So if player where to start copying such a card that has a modifier that modifies a modifier multiple times via some combo ect. So the number of modifiers that modify modifiers could by in theory unbounded. So the time complexity can definitely not be exponential. 32 copys which is not much would increase run time by 2^32

normal silo
thick beacon
normal silo
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Ok so lets go with 1000.

thick beacon
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and if each of those copies doubled run time the rules engine would grind to a halt

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so I need some better way to go about this than that recursive function

normal silo
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Next question, what is an acceptable latency for this computation, how long can it take before it takes effect visually for the player? Time from start action to finish.

thick beacon
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card games are turn based so maxium latency could be hundreds of ms, but start getting into the seconds that would make the game feel laggy

thick beacon
normal silo
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Or more generally, when does it run and how frequently?

thick beacon
# normal silo Or more generally, when does it run and how frequently?

basically any time an action needs to read a value it needs to run that value through all modifiers that exist on it. And when a modifier runs it need to read the value after all modifiers only older than it in the current layer and in a higher layer tier have been applied to the value.

normal silo
stable halo
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dumb question, are you recomputing the same stuff unnecessarily?

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right, caching is what I was hinting at

thick beacon
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@normal silo I think my problem is going about this recursive function call for example in that barebones example get_check_ts. There has to be a more clever way to structure this since if I used magic as an example things like MTG Arena and MTGO exist.

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That is what is exploding when computing a modified value when I have modifiers that modifier modifiers.

normal silo
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Measure the memory usage though.

thick beacon
# normal silo Try a cache first.

but that does not help if just to compute the value for it be used by action if I have a 1000 modifiers on modifiers take 2^1000 times longer it would never finish running before I could even cache for actions.

normal silo
thick beacon
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@normal silo Like this is for magic, but this kinda explains what I am trying to basically do rules wise for the game although just time stamps and layers not dependency stuff. https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Layer Just trying to come up with a system that basically does this well. "Text-changing" effects would basically be modifiers on modifiers which is where I am running into this complexity issue.

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@normal silo in terms of other games I guess you could describe it as buff and debuff system that also has buffs and debuffs that can change other buffs and debuffs.

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@normal silo Okay just tried something in my my main code to try and cache stuff and I get MemoryError rather quickly. 😩

thick beacon
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@normal silo Here I modified the barebones example to make easy to see what I mean by exponentially slower depending on the number of modifiers of modifiers. https://paste.pythondiscord.com/52KQ Just change the variable modifier_of_modifiers to whatever number you want and you will see the time basically doubles for 1 increase the time when running with time ./example.py

normal silo
# thick beacon <@119925597395877889> Here I modified the barebones example to make easy to see ...

To make this a lot easier for me and others to help that don't know anything about the game, rewrite the get_check_ts method such that you have two methods, one that returns only values and one that returns only functions, it's very difficult to deal with when it returns either values or functions and recursively. I can't rewrite this because IDK what the logic is suppose to be exactly. So get_check_ts should only return vals, not fns (one type).

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A non-recursive version would help a lot.

normal silo
normal silo
#

From what I can tell, you are suppose to start with some initial state, and apply the continuous effect in order as defined by the layers, taking into account the timestamps and order dependencies. When it comes time to get a value, that should be O(1) since it should have already been computed prior during that forward process of applying all the layers.

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This means that when you apply a modifier, it should be placed in one of the layers (or several if it has multiple parts).

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You can then just loop through the layers and apply them, sorted by timestamp (largest to smallest, don't apply if some previous modifier was applied that conflicts).

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This should result in a new set of values that can be fed into the next layer.

vernal kite
#

so i do have a display, made with pygame, that i wish to have a "display" with in, that shows the out put, or just have the python terminal placed into, so is asking if any knows how to take text form another file, and have it shown in the "display", that is with in pygame display

brisk yew
vernal kite
# brisk yew how is that string value stored?if it's in some other Python file, you can just ...

well i do have a idea of what you are talking about, but currently i am trying to track down how this code i geot form pygame tutorial works, as i cant find the data, that i am to take out and replace, to have text come into the display

sysfont = pygame.font.get_default_font()

font = pygame.font.SysFont(None, 48)

img = font.render(sysfont, True, GREEN)
rect = img.get_rect()
pygame.draw.rect(img, BLACK, rect, 1)
brisk yew
vernal kite
#

so have found out that the interaction part "game_text", and that i am to make a game_event (loop), but do not know where to start, or what to do, so might i get some hands on help regarding how to get this working
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/M6QQ

daring portal
#

how to import html in python

untold ginkgo
#

import? wdym by that?

daring portal
#

I want to use HTML code in python

untold ginkgo
#

Just write that code in string

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idk how you want to use it

daring portal
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I want it to execute the code

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at the same time as the python code

untold ginkgo
# 
os.system("start chrome path/to/html/file")

instead of chrome any browser executable

webbrowser also can be used for that

import webbrowser
webbrowser.open("file://path/to/html/file")
daring portal
#

thanks

vernal kite
#

any one that owns where i can find stuf about having more control over the out put text, in python rendering

cobalt yoke
#

there are a handful ways to get color

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one i opted for recently, libraryless method i guess, was some set of constants you could insert into the text to color it

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but there are also libraries that give you full control over all colors

#

let me see if i can find someof those constants

# 
ANSI_WHITE = "\033[0m"
ANSI_RED = "\033[31m"
ANSI_GREEN = "\033[32m"
ANSI_BLUE = "\033[34m"
#

that should help you google more of those, really easy to just put anywhere in the middle of text to change color from that point onwards

vernal kite
#

is thinking more amouth the arangement of the text wne it is beeing rendred, because as it is now, it just looks like so

when it is to look like this

image.png image.png
cobalt yoke
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ah i dont know of any good library or such for that

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but formatting and strings and stuff is good to know, dont be afraid to wing it

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just replace print with your own function, have it do whatever you want

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wait you're in pygame? im fucking blind man

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i thought you were on CLI all this time, wow

vernal kite
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i do not even know where to start in regard effecting the formatiing of the rendred out put

cobalt yoke
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font.render(game_text, True, GREEN) renders the text, maybe you can do something with that font object?

vernal kite
#

but is font not just the way that the text look, i do think that is a little to much into the bedrocks we are digging, if we are just to rearange the placement order of the text in output

cobalt yoke
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is that text bold? they warn a bit about bold making fonts look weird, better to find a font thats already bold i guess

vernal kite
#

bold, i do not know what you mean with that, but this is just defualt fount, in its purest form

picture, secund line, last part

image.png
sterile glen
#

hey does anyone know how to get key inputs working with ctk for a game i'm making a tetris clone and in pygame and vanilla python i used

    def controls(self, pressed_key):
        if pressed_key == pg.K_LEFT:
            self.tetromino.move(direction='left')
        elif pressed_key == pg.K_RIGHT:
            self.tetromino.move(direction='right')
        elif pressed_key == pg.K_UP:
            self.tetromino.rotate()  ```
in tkinter i used
```py
        self.canvas.bind('<Left>', lambda _: (self.tetris.movement(0, -1), self.update()))
        self.canvas.bind('<Right>', lambda _: (self.tetris.movement(0, 1), self.update()))
        self.canvas.bind('<Down>', lambda _: (self.tetris.movement(1, 0), self.update()))
        self.canvas.bind('<Up>', lambda _: (self.tetris.rotate(), self.update()))
        self.canvas.focus_set()

both worked but now trying to move to customtkinter neither are working no errors in terminal just no input

brisk yew
dense harness
#

does python do game stuff or no

latent sandal
dense harness
latent sandal
latent sandal
dense harness
latent sandal
#

python is usually 2d i thiink

dense harness
dense harness
vernal kite
turbid summit
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??

pearl linden
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Learning HTML because I can't make games in python...

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It's going good tho

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Learnt JS, CSS and HTML

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Got a certificate in JS

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Only if there was like a python module

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That added a window or something

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To making games

untold ginkgo
pearl linden
#

What's pygame

untold ginkgo
#

Library for creating games

pearl linden
#

Ok

#

Should I learn