game-development

[potent ice]

ah right. A simple camera. Works 😉

[elfin frost]

it worked before, but was tired of pressing milion times 😄

[potent ice]

Set key repeat to 1/60s 😄

joking

[elfin frost]

🤣

i have to rework my whole model, parts are defined in absolute axis 🙂

[silk rampart]

Hey folks! Apologies if I'm asking questions that are answered elsewhere, but I'm a professional web developer who's decided to pick up Python on the weekends. Seems like a great language! I'm just initially poking around the discord to say hi and get my bearings — is this channel at all for finding learning resources, or should I direct those questions elsewhere?

[cold storm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOykFzt_pZA

[severe saffron]

you can ask questions looking for resources but if it's just general python resources then most people will tell you to run

hang on

!resources

[frank field]

Resources

The Resources page on our website contains a list of hand-selected learning resources that we regularly recommend to both beginners and experts.

https://pythondiscord.com/pages/resources

[severe saffron]

but if it's more specific then absolutely

[tender kraken]

im bored so let me ask weird questions. my question is: 3d gaming with python is a thing?

[honest crane]

thanks for all the help people gave me today, here's the end result. an interactive program to generate an NPC merchant's inventory for a tabletop rpg

[severe saffron]

noice

[heady tulip]

pog

[proper elk]

i am sai aged 15 i want some one to help me with design or the images and colors of a small games i will be doing can some one help me plz....

[proper elk]

#python-discussion

[floral plank]

Does anyone know of a free game or site that helps walk newer coders through making games with python? I would like to work on a story based game where the user doesn't control the movements of the character, but rather their intentions and dialogue. I figure that I would try to to work through making a page by page game rather than a side scroller or rpg centered game.

[ocean vigil]

Not sure if I'm postin g in the right channel here, but I've created a game with Python and Flask, and I would love some feedback. Please tell me if this is not appropriate, and I will delete the post. The game is free, has no adverts and has no commercial intentions. (just saying)

Here is the link to the game : http://exodus2200.pythonanywhere.com/login
Invitation code : DISC001

Would love to hear what you like and don't like

[proper elk]

i cant create login

erro while putting pasworkd

plz match the requested format

[ocean vigil]

You need an UPPERCASE letter, a lowercase letter and a number, and your password needs to be 6 characters or more...

[proper elk]

no its not working

i tryed the same

[ocean vigil]

Hmm.. I'm sorry for your bad experience.
I just tested the registration-page. It's working fine for me...

What password are you trying ?

[proper elk]

Saiprb&67

[ocean vigil]

Hmm that should work...
Let me try...

Ah.. I think the '&' is blocking the registration.
I'm going to fix that, but for now, could you create a psw without the & plz ?

[proper elk]

ya it works

[peak viper]

hi, i am pretty new to pygame and is having trouble spawning in more than one enemies as there is a type error saying "unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'list' and 'int' " , i am having trouble finding where the bug is. can anyone help me, i will a appreciate it

[severe saffron]

Please post your code

[proper elk]

i am sai aged 15 i want some one to help me with design or the images and colors of a small games i will be doing can some one help me plz....

[mystic lodge]

i hate doing pixel art

im just bad at it

[potent ice]

I'm terrible as well. Probably means we just need to do it more

[mystic lodge]

i actually use blender to do my pixelart because im fairly ok at blender

i just model my thing in 3d

then convert it to pixel art

[potent ice]

• some cleanup?

[mystic lodge]

heres an example of one i did

[potent ice]

ah it makes sense with animations 🙂

[mystic lodge]

even tho i pixelated all of it you can still see so much noise XD

[potent ice]

yeah you need to clean up the frames a bit. I usually convert from vector images because I'm decent at that. Some cleanup is usually always needed.

Just a little bit of pixel cleanup and it usually looks great

If you want the really old retro look you need to reduce the frames and make some rougher gradients. A simple cleanup of that will make it look more like a 1995 game.

Depends what you want

It's still a whole lot easier than doing it from scratch with pixel art

Can also make the coin a bit fatter to make it easier to clean up. It get's a bit awkward when the coin is on the side

[mystic lodge]

yea

i should have turned the samples up

i put it to 32 because i didnt want to spend too much time rendering pixel art

[potent ice]

Making the edges a bit more pronounced is also needed for the retro look I guess

[hearty flame]

Im making an input in a display in pygame, and Im trying to get the backspace to work so I can delete anything, but I cant seem to find the error

[mystic lodge]

is the backspace not working?

[hearty flame]

well I followed a turtorial on how to make the input, and I followed the way they did it but whenever I try to do a backspace on the display, itll just do the fillin box on the display, but on the terminal itll actually delete it

[mystic lodge]

did you do K_BACKSPACE as the backspace input for pygame?

[hearty flame]

yes

[mystic lodge]

hmmm

[hearty flame]

https://pastebin.pl/view/c828b188 this is my code

[mystic lodge]

you might have to do event.key == pygame.K_BACKSPACE instead of event.type == pygame.K_BACKSPACE

[hearty flame]

yup that worked, tysm

[mystic lodge]

your welcome glad I could help! :D

[delicate raptor]

hiya, having trouble with what I believe is a collision issue. projectiles will only appear if they miss a target, however when the player is lined up with an object and they shoot the enemy will just disappear.

here's an example of what happens

code: https://pastebin.com/Rk6n6MGX

[edgy orbit]

there is a way for making 3d sounds in pygame?

or i should use another module like openal

[cold storm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1QzJmrHzv8

[hybrid blaze]

any game ideas?

[cold storm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPZyevyL5Fg 😄

[pallid trail]

did u update the postition of the rectangle to always be at the position of the sprite

https://gyazo.com/8cc0d885cd0a7ed2f40d94c1167816d9

here i created the rect in the update function

[exotic laurel]

What game engine should I learn for basic 3D game development? It doesn't have to be in python

[pallid trail]

and changed the position of the rectangle not the image, then blit the image onto the rectangle

[pallid trail]

unity if ur gonna go far with it or godot if u already know python

or Game Marker Studio 2 if ur willing to pay

[exotic laurel]

Is godot a game engine?

[pallid trail]

yes

[exotic laurel]

Yeah I've heard of unity, I think i'll have to learn C# for that

[pallid trail]

yea that is turned off unity for me

[exotic laurel]

Is C# hard even after knowing python?

[pallid trail]

wait do u know java tho

[exotic laurel]

Yep i do know java basics

[pallid trail]

C# is basically java with syntax changes

[exotic laurel]

Yeah I sorta noticed with the way it creates functions and whatnot

[pallid trail]

if u do some OOP with python then u should be fine with C#

[exotic laurel]

Alright

I'll also take a look into godot, thanks!

[pallid trail]

ur welcome

[cold storm]

@exotic laurel

also check upbge fork of blender

it uses actual python

and has openXR support

• in a branch* -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPZyevyL5Fg

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1j97GWWaX5QMwHqNfWXYh_zPs5xZM_mQ_

here is a windows build

bpy.context.window_manager.xr_session_state = keys to vr

[dawn quiver]

can someone calculate which angle i should rotate it to if the one side is at (0, 2.8, 0) and the other side is at (0, 2.16, 0), im working on a room.

[severe saffron]

what

[slate snow]

because "math" is defined as local variable inside "cards" function. you cannot use it outside in "cards(math)"

and why did you defined math as both parameter and local variable?

ok

does it work now?

it's because you aren't generating list of random numbers but just 1 in range from 0 - 10 in "math" variable

random.randint returns only 1 value

no

still returns 1 value

do you want to return a list of numbers?

you can use list comprehension with random.randint / random.randrange

[ random.randrange(10) for x in range(2)]
should do the trick

i mean

cards = [ random.randrange(10) for x in range(2)]

you can get any number of random numbers by changing the 2 inside "range" function

[dawn quiver]

hay

[thorn summit]

Hi, I know nothing about Python for game dev and apologize if this question makes no sense (let me know if that is the case). I am interested in understanding if python can open new exciting front-end opportunities for my startup. My question: what is the best example of a Python based game developed with solid graphic interface? Is it possible to reach, for instance, same level of graphic design as in polpular e-sports games (e.g. FIFA, NBAlive, NHL, etc.)? Thanks

Also, if there is a better channel to redirect the discussion please let me know.

[mystic lodge]

python is a pretty powerful language and is used to code a lot of game engines like godot, even though most games are written in c#, c++ etc.. python might be used as the backbone of the game. you could use a module like PYopenGL to make really good 3d games but it is really hard to learn. from my experience with pyopengl i know you can model something in blender, get the vertices and edges and positions and put it into pyopengl and it will render it but it would take a lot of code. so yes it can reach the same level of graphic design but it is really hard to do it.

[severe saffron]

python will have very little to do with the graphics of your game as that will pretty much always be written in C regardless of what scripting engine the game uses

that said, not many 3d game engines can be used with python, and they're not generally focused on advanced graphics features

in terms of looking like modern sports games, the effort of modelling and texturing will be thousands of man hours so it's easily going to have a bigger effect in terms of things to plan for a project like that

although obviously the engine is an important choice

why do you want to use python

[thorn summit]

thanks for the explanation and references! I was curious to understand if python was also used for graphic and rendering (like front-end) in videogames. I understad that c, c++, etc. are more common choices and python might be used more in the back-end. I am familiar with Python for data science and web dev and was looking for an open source solution for rendering a static 3D model (like an athlete in a sport videogame) from a picture. I didn't know about blender (I will look into it!)

[green skiff]

Wow, python is endless

[hushed bear]

perks of being a insanely versatile language

[cold storm]

Blender is good

@thorn summit try UPBGE also

it's a fork of blender with the game engine restored

[hollow sage]

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'm writing a 3-D game thing in PyGame (I know it's not the best library) and I was wondering how the math for a z-buffer works. Currently I render polygons based on distance from the viewer. I want to assign a z value for each pixel on the screen, but I'm not sure exactly how that works, so I did the math and found an equation that can give the the z-val based on where the pixel is on the screen and which polygon it's on. Unfortunately, it involves inverting a matrix. I was just wondering if there's a better solution than this, because I don't think this is feasible to do for each pixel in real time.

[severe saffron]

surely you already know the depth of each polygon

the depth buffer value is basically just the distance of each pixel from the camera

you need to write to it when drawing to the screen

[worn cobalt]

hi i started a sort of game i am new with python so but i get this error and cant get further any suggestions?

[severe saffron]

K_DOWN

just a guess

since all the other K_something constants are all uppercase

[hollow sage]

@severe saffron I only know the depth of the vertices of the polygon. For the zbuff I want to know the depth of all the pixels of the polygon. That’s where the presumably heavy equation w/mat inverse comes in

[severe saffron]

so

when you draw a polygon

you have to figure out where all the pixels in that polygon are, right?

i.e. rasterise them

well it's the same thing with finding the depths

and yeah the maths is a little harder but it's still ultimately a question of also drawing a value to the z buffer for each pixel you rasterise

for now, just try implementing it with the z value being one vertex of the polygon

or the midpoint

for a very rough approximation

if you feel it's a little daunting atm

[hollow sage]

Currently I use midpoint z val, but I don’t store it in a buffer. I think I’ll try doing that first.

[dawn quiver]

what is the easiet game to create using pygame?

[severe saffron]

one that immediately closes]

if you're looking for an actual fun useful game

the simplest complete game is probably something like pong

but i think starting with simpler examples is better

[violet cave]

Random Q for anyone to answer, lmk if there is a better place to ask this, does tkinter differ slightly on Windows vs Ubuntu? I created a game using tkinter (coursework that why) and it runs fine on Ubuntu VM but on Windows 10 I get an error regarding this line "l.attributes("-zoomed", True)" as I dont think it accepts -zoomed as an argument and instead prefers -fullscreen?

[severe saffron]

ah yeah the window settings have slightly different names

it's a pain

[mystic lodge]

you can use pyopengl with it

which is a 3d object renderer

[severe saffron]

i assume they want to do the rendering themselves

[hollow sage]

@mystic lodge Thank you, but Seagull is right.

[mystic lodge]

oh ok

[torpid pier]

quick question for anyone who has the answer... if i want a character ability to only be available when the health is below 50% how would i code that, ```py
while True:
if self.health < self.health * .5

^ im pretty sure thats not gonna work

in that case it would never trigger because the health would never be less that half of the health

[hollow sage]

@torpid pier The issue here is that you need two separate variables: self.health and self.maxhealth

self.maxhealth would store how much health the character has at 100% health

Then you could do self.health < self.maxhealth * .5

Or the slightly more optimized but less readable mathematically equivalent inequality 2 * self.health < self.maxhealth

[torpid pier]

ok that makes sense

the to keep up update max health just do ```py
self.maxhealth = self.health + "new value"

or self.mh = self.mh +new value

[hollow sage]

Yes the second one

[torpid pier]

ok thank you, helps a ton

[hollow sage]

You can use self.mh += new_value, which does the same thing

[torpid pier]

true i always forget the += shortcut

thank you @hollow sage you da bomb

[fair tulip]

how many custom events can you define with pygame?

[tranquil nymph]

Which GUI you recommend?

[dawn quiver]

from random import randint as ri

class attack:
    def __init__(self,  attack, strength, hitcount, accuracy, enemy_health, enemy_defense):
        self.hitamount = ri(1, hitcount)
        if ri(1, 101) < 100//accuracy:
            print(enemy_health)
            damage = ((attack*strength)//enemy_defense)*self.hitamount
            enemy_health = enemy_health - damage
            print(enemy_health, "\n", damage, "\n", self.hitamount)
        else:
            print("miss")
attack(10, 20, 3, 1, 100, 10)

really lazy code i made for attack calculation and stuff if your making a pokemon type rpg game in python

[severe saffron]

that never actually returns the enemy health

[dawn quiver]

hey guys, i have a problem

whenever i run my code it gives me an error saying that pygame video isn't initialized even though i have done it

here's the erred part

 keys_pressed = pygame.key.get_pressed()
        yellow_handle_movement(keys_pressed, yellow)
        red_handle_movement(keys_pressed, red)

here is the function

def main():
    red = pygame.Rect(700, 300, SPACESHIP_WIDTH, SPACESHIP_HEIGHT)
    yellow = pygame.Rect(100, 300, SPACESHIP_WIDTH, SPACESHIP_HEIGHT)

    red_bullets = []
    yellow_bullets = []

    red_health = 10
    yellow_health = 10

    pygame.init()
    clock = pygame.time.Clock()
    run = True
    while run:
        clock.tick(FPS)
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                run = False
                pygame.quit()

            if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
                if event.key == pygame.K_LCTRL and len(yellow_bullets) < MAX_BULLETS:
                    bullet = pygame.Rect(yellow.x + yellow.width, yellow.y + yellow.height//2 - 2, 10, 5)
                    yellow_bullets.append(bullet)

                if event.key == pygame.K_RCTRL and len(red_bullets) < MAX_BULLETS:
                    bullet = pygame.Rect(red.x, red.y + red.height//2 - 2, 10, 5)
                    red_bullets.append(bullet)

            if event.type == RED_HIT:
                red_health -= 1

            if event.type == YELLOW_HIT:
                yellow_health -= 1

        winner_text = ""
        if red_health <= 0:
            winner_text = "Yellow Wins!"

        if yellow_health <= 0:
            winner_text = "Red Wins!"

        if winner_text != "":
            draw_winner(winner_text)
            break

        keys_pressed = pygame.key.get_pressed()
        yellow_handle_movement(keys_pressed, yellow)
        red_handle_movement(keys_pressed, red)

        handle_bullets(yellow_bullets, red_bullets, yellow, red)

        draw_window(red, yellow, red_bullets, yellow_bullets, red_health, yellow_health)

    main()

ping me if you have a solution

[steel geyser]

@dawn quiver You should ask in a help channel, I think. You will have more chance to get an answer there.

[dawn quiver]

Thanks I will

[calm bloom]

anyone here have any experience with SideFX Houdini and Python?

[zealous wolf]

Does anyone know if/how to "group" multiple drawn shapes together in Arcade and treat them as a sprite?

[kindred crest]

no

[severe saffron]

rip andrew

;)

[neat anvil]

Hi i am new here

and i wanna learn python from basic anyone help me please!!

[tired vale]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-osiE80TeTskrapNbzXhwoFUiLCjGgY7

his course is easy to understand

also if you have questions you could ask your questions in the help channel..

[vivid stream]

how do you display images without gui or qt or pygame and such

im making a game for a school project

[echo wadi]

need to make a flowchart -- then make a pic - send to room - await punishment for ....

[fickle glacier]

How can I detect if my mouse hovers over a image in pygame => basically im checking it and if it is true then change the image to the second state of it

[severe saffron]

Why not just store each item individually

Without the quantity mark

Since they're all unique anyway

Oh right I didn't spot that

Store it as a list of dicts where one of the keys is the nsme

I assume you're doing it like this because you need dicts to store in mongodb

[dawn quiver]

I am making an ascii type game like snake and pacman. I have to print the map every character movement?

[pallid trail]

why is there no dedicated C++ server on discord like this

[dawn quiver]

You should make one.

But, still good question.

I think it's because the userbase is smaller.

Python is new and hip. You have alot of people from all over getting into coding with python.

C++ is static typed so it has less people wanting to try it.

[mint zenith]

Why are you asking that in the game dev channel? It's off topic. #ot0-psvm’s-eternal-disapproval

[pallid trail]

well this is the only channel i talk in and that channel name is not obvios

[mint zenith]

This is a Python server so assume all channels are within the context of Python. There are a few exceptions, but you should read the channel descriptions to be sure.

[pallid trail]

ok kewl

[cold storm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sg-HZ-TKgo

[vale tulip]

Any good hosts you guys would suggest for my bot?

[torn heath]

Wrong channel, check the pins the in #discord-bots

[dawn quiver]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ehopixeqex.py

If anyone knows how to stop the player from cloning itself, would be great. 🙂

[dawn quiver]

aaaa auuuuuu yyyy

[random ibex]

Hi I am following a platformer game tutorial from the arcade website

self.physics_engine = None
self.physics_engine.update()
```This gives error 'NoneType' has no attribute update

[opal swift]

what is compiling code in visual studio for unity?

can compiling code fix issues with the code?

[gray matrix]

no lmfao

[fervent rose]

You probably need to set the attribute somewhere in the code, or maybe a bit later in the tutorial

[rigid badger]

what games can you make in python?

[random ibex]

alright thx wanted to see how code functions

[severe saffron]

Nice!

[pallid trail]

wait do u create clones for the brush marks

[opal parcel]

Every game that you want

[novel helm]

anyone do c#

[opal parcel]

wdym

[novel helm]

like anyone do c#

code

[opal parcel]

Me

[novel helm]

oh nice

im having trouble with this

[opal parcel]

It couldn't seen

I can't see that

[novel helm]

should i send the code

like where its leading me to

[opal parcel]

Ok

[opal parcel]

Will you show code

[novel helm]

it gets me here

on that pickup script

one

[opal parcel]

Is this pickupscript.cs

[novel helm]

yeah its for picking up weapons

etc

but i couldnt find a code

so i used youtube and followed some guy

[opal parcel]

Can you put semi-colon after CheckGrab() function on line 23rd

[opal parcel]

Can you put semi-colon after CheckGrab() function on line 23rd and try run again

[novel helm]

oh ok

[opal parcel]

And you somewhere didn't put ending paranthesis of some loop or function

}

[novel helm]

oh

[opal parcel]

Is error fixed

I have worked with python code and haven't slept for 23 hours w** I gonna sleep and If that was helpful for you @novel helm I'm really happy

[tranquil girder]

I heard of this cool language called Python where you don't get errors from missing semicolon or curly brackets. You should try it ;)

[novel helm]

python doesnt go into game development

[limpid ember]

wait isnt this a python server though

[opal parcel]

Why?

[novel helm]

??

[opal parcel]

That have many lib fir making games like pygame, panda3d

[limpid ember]

yea but you cant do much with pygame

[novel helm]

yh but for unity and unreal most is c#

[opal parcel]

Ok

[opal parcel]

Yeah I know

[novel helm]

python is for more coding

etc

[zealous wolf]

I had a shot at Python's arcade library, but I'm finding it extremely frustrating and I'm getting nowhere. I feel that part of the issue is that I'm very unexperienced with classes and I'm getting bombarded with things like method overrides and nested classes, but another part of the issue is likely that I'm (embarrassingly) trying to recreate a Scratch project I made a couple years ago, despite Scratch working completely differently. I'm wondering, is it worth taking a look at Unity, since that isn't entirely dependent on code, or would that be even more unnecessarily complex?

[novel helm]

bots

[opal parcel]

Right

[zealous wolf]

Also, probably a stupid question, but is it possible to hook up something like Unity up to Python, or are there any equivalents which use Python?

[novel helm]

better to use c#

[novel helm]

but its hard

[opal parcel]

No best one is cpp

[novel helm]

let me check that one out

[opal parcel]

No csharp isn't hard that's extremely hard

[novel helm]

i see cpp is acc really good

[opal parcel]

My eyes gonna closing Thanks

[zealous wolf]

Learning a new language will be quite a big leap, especially considering that I've been doing Python for 7 or so years and am still barely intermediate at it. However, hopefully it will go easier this time since I already have a language I'm partially fluent in. I'll have my best shot at learning C#.

[zealous wolf]

I thought that Unity used C#?

[last moon]

if you get an answer to this can you ping me?

unity is c# tho

[severe saffron]

not really, and it's a much better idea to just learn c#

it isn't very difficult and it's much better than trying to crowbar python bindings onto a widely used engine

[zealous wolf]

You'll be surprised by my brain's ability to just not understand APIs and integrations

The fact that I do not understand how classes work probably contributes to that a lot

And also the fact that I have no idea what words like public static void main string args or whatever means

[severe saffron]

public means that this definition is accessible outside the file it was defined in

static means it can't have multiple instances

void designates a function that doesn't return anything

main is the name of a function

[knotty geode]

If you really want to write games in Python, your closest possibility is probably to use Godot which is very similar to Python but is an actual game engine.

[limpid ember]

why is the fps capped at 30 in pygame?

is there a way to increase it?

[uneven eagle]

FPS = 60
timer = pygame.time.Timer()
# game loop
timer.tick(FPS)

@limpid ember

[dawn quiver]

After about 5 hours of chasing one bug... I finally did it.

My error: I was getting the next cell the player moved to coordinates, instead of only getting the graphic. I was assigning the player's new spot to the old spot variable. So, when I went to print the old spot variable back from the place the character just moved from, it ws printing the player's graphic.

FINALLY I realized I need to set the old cell coordinate as the player's current coordinate, and then set the old cell GRAPHIC, using the player's new coordinate.

Lesson learned after 2 days of suffering. When you're stubborn like me you end up working overtime 😄

But now I can walk over "grass" and "rocks"

aka periods and commas.

😄

You can do anything you put your mind to people. Never forget that.

This is coming from a drug addict/alcoholic/failure in life.

What you see in my screen shots is my life's greatest achievement.

Might seem funny to you, but it means the whole world to me.

I dropped out of high school at 16. I got my GED at 27. I'm 30 now. I started learning programming at the same time as I got my GED. I had 0 help. I was sleeping out of a van for 2 years. I had to work as a substitute teacher for 8 dollars an hour. I was literally laughed at and mocked by school children on a daily basis for the way I look and my coworkers had 0 respect for me.

I am the definition of rising from ashes. I'm not bragging. I am sharing this to inspire you.

Sure, it might just be a couple blips and icons, but even stars in space start off as a tiny flicker of light.

[limpid ember]

damn bro good luck

[dawn quiver]

same for me but i am just pusshing my mom wants me to stop coding so i am takin a rest now

[dawn quiver]

yes its easy

[dawn quiver]

Which one do you like better?

[tacit lava]

this one of course

[steel geyser]

Well, they seem not to have the same features…

[uneven eagle]

Personally, I like this one.

But there should be a way to change between layouts

[fair panther]

hi, does somebody know why the display in pygame looks like this? i mean the red lines at the bottom and the one up top. can someone help? thanks

[opal parcel]

what will be if I increase more

[uneven eagle]

Increasing fps increases the number of frames per second. This raises the speed by raising the limit

[novel helm]

its hard for me

[dawn quiver]

thanks guys.

Yea, I forgot to include the chat in the 1st design.

inventory is a button that brings up a window, also

It is more or less just indicating whwere the windows pop up

[dawn quiver]

does anyone know any good tutorials/books/course for pygame? ping me

[random ibex]

Hi whenever I try to do

FIRE_SOUND = pygame.mixer.Sound(os.path.join('Assets', 'gun_fire.mp3'))
```the program crashes

Unable to open file

I have included this also pygame.mixer.init()

is it because it can't detect the extension?

[frank field]

Hey @dawn quiver!

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

[dawn quiver]

EVERYONE DM ME IF YOU NEED ANY HELP WITH ANYTHING

[dawn quiver]

hi, are you doing the tech with tim tutorial?

because i did that recently

and there is a problem with the sound file, it's corrupted or something

[dawn quiver]

bruh

[random ibex]

no extension is working

[opal parcel]

can anyone help me

with pygame

I've circles on the screen which is spawned on mouse button pressed

And after spawning many circles

The game slows down

to 6 fps

Is it possible to remove unneeded circles from screen after they hasn't seen

[dawn quiver]

gui in tkinter for a MUD game i'm making

[versed sonnet]

can someone help me with pygame plz
I'm creating a little game and the buttons dont seem to work right away
I have to keep spamming it for it to trigger

[dawn quiver]

I don't know if sharing is against the rules or not... but this is my project. 😎

[severe saffron]

tf is going on in the chat lol

[dawn quiver]

LOL

[dawn quiver]

    for y in range(len(map)):
        for x in range(len(map[y])):
            if map[y][x] != -1:
                for tile in tiles:
                    new_platforms = tile.block_types[map[y][x]](x * tile.block_types[0].get_width()[0], y * tile.block_types[0].get_height()[0], 50,50,(255,255,255))
                    tiles.append(new_platforms)
                



    for tile in tiles:
        tile.draw()

does anyone know why my tiles arent showing uo

up

am I doing something wrong?

[severe igloo]

I have an python game using arcade. I have multiple custom sprites that it loads. I have my game in a game folder, thats in a PYTHON folder and i have my images that im using as my sprites in the same folder as my python folder (Images are not in PYTHON folder, just in the same folder as PYTHON folder). For some reason, arcade cannot locate these images, why?

(Ping on response please)

[viscid sage]

which game you are developing pls tell

[spring prawn]

@fair panther Even I Had The Same Problem But Downgrading To Python 3.7 Helped Me With My MacOS bigsur

[lucid wagon]

What library do u use?

[severe sphinx]

who wants a knife?

[gentle plaza]

I want a knife

Thanks

[severe sphinx]

this is a better one

[gentle plaza]

Oh nice

[low hedge]

hey guys
quick question
can we make a video play inside a pygame window?

[ocean shore]

Quick answer; no

[low hedge]

ok

[ocean shore]

I’ve tried before there used to be a way but it was buggy and hence discontinued

[low hedge]

any idea if we can do it in a tk window?

[low hedge]

hmm ok

[ocean shore]

dunno tbh

[low hedge]

k ill look up something online

i wanted to make something to rickroll people lol

[ocean shore]

There are some modules that can play video

[low hedge]

ok

[ocean shore]

But the have there own window

[low hedge]

hey guys
i'm having trouble using pygame
i'm using vsc thru anaconda
and i think its an import issue idk
it doesnt say it cant import
whenever i try to use an attribute
like pygame.quit
it raises an. error
this error i get if i try to do pygame.init
AttributeError: module 'pygame' has no attribute 'init'

ping when replying

[quick escarp]

hello, anyone experienced in using opencv as an augmented reality based game?

i would love to get some advice from an expert or someone who have used it previously

[paper latch]

Hey so I am done my game but I just need to define start_the_game for my menu which is responsible for the play in the menu and I need to define it to start my game and I don't know how to....

[vivid zodiac]

i am beginner in programming where can i start learning python?

[harsh junco]

youtube

[harsh junco]

always start with youtube

[uneven eagle]

Or you can read a book

[vivid zodiac]

like freecodecamp?

[cloud dome]

also learn python 3

not 2

[harsh junco]

yes

yes

[cold zinc]

youtube ?

[harsh junco]

Freecodecamp.org

One of the best

definitely

[uneven eagle]

Wait, freecodecamp does python?

Nvmd

[vivid zodiac]

pip install pygame

[dawn quiver]

if you want to contribute, just let me know

https://github.com/blinkakawize1/Heroes-of-Olde

[versed sonnet]

is there a way to make text a string

[mystic lodge]

is there a way to make text a string
@versed sonnet
in what?

[versed sonnet]

nvm i did smt different

but I have another problem, I'm printing something in a loop, is there a way to make it not print an infinite number of times

its under an elif statement

[mystic lodge]

yea

you can do x in range(number)

for x in range(5):
print('test')

[versed sonnet]

ok thanks, im gonna try that out

[mystic lodge]

u can also make it random with the random module

[versed sonnet]

lol idk how to do that

[mystic lodge]

u just do
for x in range(random.randint(0, whatever number you want):
print ('test')

[versed sonnet]

its still printing infinite times

[mystic lodge]

hmmm

[mystic lodge]

is that in a while loop

[versed sonnet]

ya

[mystic lodge]

can you show me all the code?

[versed sonnet]

its really long

its like 900 smt ln

do u want me to show u where the loop starts

[mystic lodge]

damn what are you coding?

sure

[versed sonnet]

lol its like a math class thing

[mystic lodge]

oof

[versed sonnet]

lol i suck at coding

[mystic lodge]

its ok people progress differently and its not that bad either

[versed sonnet]

o lol thx

this is worth 15% of my mark

[mystic lodge]

holy

[versed sonnet]

ive been spending a lot of time on it

[mystic lodge]

do they look at your code?

[versed sonnet]

lol idk how my teacher marks

but they run it lol obviously

[mystic lodge]

also try doing
for x in range(0,1)

[versed sonnet]

ok

oof didnt work

[mystic lodge]

hmm

idk then, sorry

but if u only want to print it one time you shouldn't need the loop

something in the loop is telling it to run it again

[versed sonnet]

ok thanks anyways

[low hedge]

thanks, though the problem was the name of my file was pygame.py.

[torpid pewter]

my pygame display doesnt update when i move the window around, how do i fix this?

(by move the window i mean dragging the top bar that windows have across the screen)

[proper elk]

bro do any one know good browser games....

[manic swan]

hi, what is the best game engine by python?

is python is worth to dev game?

[wise vine]

No.

Learn an engine for serious game dev

[manic swan]

@wise vine actually I'm learning python, so I want to learn by dev a game

[wise vine]

OH

[wise vine]

nvm learn some pygame then just for fun

[tawdry seal]

Hello@

!

What are we talking about?

[potent ice]

@wise vine You'd be surprised what you can do with python and games.

@manic swan It really depends what you want to make. Simple 2D game libraries like arcade, pygame and pyglet might be a good start.

[wise vine]

Surprise me.

[potent ice]

Some examples of simple games made in Panda3D : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jID2u758Qgs

Some pygame projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oej7DQQjSfY

Python can do a lot even with decent performance. That is my point.

You just need to pick the right tools for the job.

[cold storm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbkZDR_Xo4g

[dawn quiver]

pyglet is simple?

never knew

[oak spear]

ya

[wise nebula]

how can I make a module that has 1/6 chances of giving a True boolean and 5/6 it gives a False one

??

as a variable for sure

[lofty pagoda]

heya

im very new to pygame

tryna put in an icon

using Pycharm for my project

cant

cuz i dont know how

help?

ok tq

[exotic laurel]

What's the best way to add a cutscene into pygame?

[crisp junco]

pygame.display.set_icon("icon_path")

[quasi ore]

I believe u can use the weighted choicd algorithm

[wise nebula]

like i understood a word of that XD

[quasi ore]

Weighted choice

It basically gives u

A way to

Give out specific chances

Or probabilities

Seems to fit ur wishes

I can forward some good links

That I had used

To learn it.

Would u like them?

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/20881/handling-random-with-unique-chance-in-python

here u go this is a good stackoverflow page that deals with unique chances

for each option

in a program

if it matches your description, thats great!

[wise nebula]

@quasi ore

yeah it does

tysm

doode

[quasi ore]

no problem

glad i could be of help

[wise vine]

I stand corrected.

I'm learning PyGame right now.

[devout oxide]

Hello everybody, what are some basic projects that i can do with artificial intelligence and game development?
I want to learn it and I'm looking far a simple project.
Thank you!

[severe saffron]

how simple

[devout oxide]

Never done anything related to ai simple 😬

I just learn better doing projects

[potent ice]

@devout oxide https://github.com/nir/jupylet is pretty cool to play with if you want to learn or play around with deep reinforcement learning

[devout oxide]

@potent ice Thank you!

[last moon]

Maze creation + solving is always a fun one

[dawn quiver]

Say i have a list of paths to multiple images, can i load these images into pygame without loop ?

tried pygame.load.images(mylist) , but this returned "not file object"

[severe saffron]

what's wrong with a loop

you want to do something multiple times for every item in a list

[dawn quiver]

nothing wrong

[severe saffron]

yeah i don't think there is

[dawn quiver]

Just learning new things

I could do it with a loop but i wanted to know if there's a more slim way

Using itertools way to lazy right?

[severe saffron]

wat

it can be one line with a list comprehension

and even with a for loop why would you use itertools

list_of_surfaces = [pygame.load.image(image_path) for image_path in mylist]

[dawn quiver]

Was about to try that

It works?

[severe saffron]

no idea

but there's no reason why it wouldn't

[dawn quiver]

worked perfectly

[severe saffron]

noice

[tepid aspen]

I'm working on implementing a save game system for a python game engine (https://https://ppb.dev/). It's mainly focused on educational use, so we were trying to figure out a way to make it both user friendly and reliable. Outside of pickling the entire scene stack, does anyone have any ideas for a good way to save state with python?

[fervent rose]

Manual serializing will always be better than pickeling

(pickling?)

The pickle library has some nasty issues with security and the like

[lime hemlock]

hello

so I am working on a snake game and I'm trying to add the body of the snake

but it doesn't work

here is the code:

[frank field]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied mute to @lime hemlock until 2021-01-21 15:19 (9 minutes and 58 seconds) (reason: newlines rule: sent 108 newlines in 10s).

[fervent rose]

!unmute @lime hemlock

[frank field]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: pardoned infraction mute for @lime hemlock.

[fervent rose]

!paste Please use a paste service for that

[frank field]

Pasting large amounts of code

If your code is too long to fit in a codeblock in discord, you can paste your code here:
https://paste.pydis.com/

After pasting your code, save it by clicking the floppy disk icon in the top right, or by typing ctrl + S. After doing that, the URL should change. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[lime hemlock]

thank you Akarys

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/oxekelunes.rb

here is the code

error:

  File "c:/Users/Administrator/Desktop/something.py", line 85
    new_segment = turtle.Turtle()
                                ^
IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level

[tepid aspen]

Simply taking the object(s) and storing them some other way?

Like your own pickle implementation?

[fervent rose]

Yep, you’d have your own method to store and load it

[tepid aspen]

Any examples?

@fervent rose

[fervent rose]

Hmm.. for example, you can store a box class as a json entry with the name of the box and its content, in such a way that you can recreate a the same box with this content

[tepid aspen]

So store the object as JSON, then create a new object from that JSON?

Thanks!

[winter dagger]

Anyone want to participate in a play test event I'm hosting this friday and saturday 7pm cst? It's a 16 vs. 16 fps with hyper mobility mechanics

[dreamy needle]

just add one more space from line 85 to 90 to match the indentation 🙂

nice snake game

[fair tulip]

can anyone help me create a structure to process an entity shooting an arrow, and that arrow following the arc physics

curve, arrow weight, time, velocity, etc

[outer escarp]

if you don't want to deal with air resistance it's pretty simple

[crimson hound]

The trajectory of an arrow (if you neglect air resistance) doesn't change depending on its weight. For example, a feather and a lead ball will fall at the same speed in vacuum

[fair tulip]

ignoring air resistance

[crimson hound]

Otherwise, the equations are pretty simple: everything accelerates down with a constant acceleration.
If an arrow starts at speed (vx, vy) and accelerates downwards with the acceleration g:

(vx_t, vy_t) = (vx, vy_t - t * g)

where t is time, in whatever unit you're using.

In other words, the x-velocity stays constant, and the y-velocity decreases lineraly

[paper latch]

pygame.init()
surface = pygame.display.set_mode((1280, 820))

def start_the_game():
pass

menu = pygame_menu.Menu(820, 1280, 'Welcome',
theme=pygame_menu.themes.THEME_ORANGE)

menu.add_text_input('Name :', default='DRIVEN TO LEARN')
menu.add_text_input(' Move the car with the arrow keys and dodge all obstacles, obtain a score of 250 to win')
menu.add_button('Play', start_the_game)
menu.add_button('Quit', pygame_menu.events.EXIT)

menu.mainloop(surface)

Could someone pls help what do I do at the def start_the_game function I'm done my game it's just the menu play button won't work and I don't know how to def start_the_game im new to python

[earnest sinew]

Can someone help me with 1 coding animation for a boat

Just a boat moving left to right

the boat is made and everything just need to move it left to right, it's 2d

[knotty geode]

Just change the X position of the sprite and update the display.

[daring forum]

I draw a rect in pygame, how can i detect if its clicked?

[knotty geode]

Detect the click event, check the location of the pointer. If the pointer is inside the coordinates of the rect, it was clicked.

[dawn quiver]

Well, I got this far

but

I'm afraid it's just a lttle ouf of my league to develop any further

Movement is super laggy because i'm doing an iteration through every map cell

and then i'm deleting the text, and printing the map every movement

I think I had just better go to a game engine and give up this obsession with trying to make a game with python and tkinter

then I have this problem where I can't make the text boxes read only because then I can't insert any text into them

it' s a mess lol

[finite abyss]

I am having trouble moving my character in pygame. here is the link to the code: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/uquyeheyeq.py

plz ping me/dm me if any of you have an answer to my question

[dawn quiver]

enemyImg = pygame.image.load('enemy.png')
enemyX = 590
enemyY = 30
enemyX_change = 0.5


lives = 5
def player(x,y):
    screen.blit(playerImg, (playerX,playerY))



def enemy(x,y):
    screen.blit(enemyImg, (enemyX,enemyY))

def isCollision(enemyX,enemyY,playerX,playerY):
    distance= math.sqrt((math.pow(enemyX-playerX,2))+((math.pow(enemyY-playerY,2)) )
    if distance > 27:
    
        return:true
    else:
        return:false
                


done = False

while not done:
    screen.fill((255,255,0))
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            done = True
            pygame.display.flip()
    if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
        if event.key == pygame.K_DOWN:
            playerY += 0.31
        if event.key == pygame.K_UP:
            playerY -= 0.31
        playerX += 0.09
    
    #boundaries
    if playerY <= 0:
        playerY = 0
    elif playerY >= 536:
        playerY = 536
    #movement
    enemyX += enemyX_change
    if enemyX <= 0:
        enemyX_change = 0.3
    elif enemyX >= 600:
        enemyX_change = -0.3
    #collision
    collision = isCollision(enemyX,enemyY,playerX,playerY)
    if collision:
        playerX = 40
        playerY = 70
        lives -= 1
        print ("lives let:"lives)
        
    

        
    player(playerX,playerY)
    enemy(enemyX,enemyY)
    pygame.display.update()

i'm getting a syntax error @ if distance>27: return:true

idk why

[whole coyote]

Write return true

Not return :true

[dawn quiver]

ok lemme try

still getting syntax error

it's pointing out the : in front of distance in red

[whole coyote]

I think you might also be missing a paren around your distance

It also seems there's a lot of redundant parens you're using.

[dawn quiver]

such as?

[whole coyote]

Give me a moment I'll get on my laptop.

[dawn quiver]

oh alright

[whole coyote]

Add a paren to the end.

of your distance calculation

Or remove the redunant parens.

>>> distance = math.sqrt(math.pow(enemyX - playerX, 2) + math.pow(enemyY - playerY, 2))
>>> distance
10.0

[dawn quiver]

ooh that fixed that

alright thanks a lot

[wet hare]

how do yall place ur sprite in the middle of a window in pygame? because when even i put its positions as half of my window width and height it gets placed slightly offcenter

[dawn quiver]

@whole coyote Now it's giving me an error saying that "name 'true' is not defined "in

def isCollision(enemyX,enemyY,playerX,playerY):
    distance= math.sqrt((math.pow(enemyX-playerX,2))+((math.pow(enemyY-playerY,2)) )
    if distance > 27:
    
        return:true
    else:
        return:false

[whole coyote]

I'm not sure who taught you how returns work, but it's not like that.

[dawn quiver]

wait this is the old code i sent you

lemme send the new one

[whole coyote]

okay.

[dawn quiver]

    distance = math.sqrt(math.pow(enemyX - playerX, 2) + math.pow(enemyY - playerY, 2))
    if (distance > 27):
    
        return true
    else:
        return false

this is what's giving me the error

that true is not defined

[whole coyote]

okay, it needs to be True

and False

not true and false.

[dawn quiver]

so remove the else statement?

oh wait

[whole coyote]

err, no just capitalize them

[dawn quiver]

sorry yeah

ok

hm ok that worked

thanks again

[whole coyote]

awesome

[dawn quiver]

how do i do colour gradient rgb tuples if i have a tuple (100, 255, 100) and want to slowly turn it red over time

im not good at maths

as the players life degrades

def draw_shield(surface: pg.Surface, x: int, y: int, percent: int):
    """Draws two rectangles, Representing the players health pool"""
    color = SHIELD["life-color"]
    if percent < 0:
        percent = 0
    fill = (percent / 100) * SHIELD["width"]
    outline_rect = pg.Rect(x, y, SHIELD["width"], SHIELD["height"])
    fill_rect = pg.Rect(x + 1, y + 1, fill - 1, SHIELD["height"] - 1)
    pg.draw.rect(surface, SHIELD["outline-color"], outline_rect, SHIELD["thickness"])
    pg.draw.rect(surface, color, fill_rect)

[dawn quiver]

?

[crisp junco]

wth

my keyboard sucks

can't even ans properly

hell

Guessing SHIELD['life-color'] is somewhat like this:

SHIELD["life-color"] = (100,255,100)

Then you can do the following

red = 100
SHIELD["life-color"] = (red,255,100)
#Now you can do something like this:
if health < 60 and health > 40:
    red = 150
elif health < 40 and health > 10:
    red = 200
elif health < 10:
    red = 255

@dawn quiver ⏫

Put this in the while loop and you're good to go

Is this what you wanted?
I'm a bit confused

[dawn quiver]

yea

i kinda knew how to do that i meant in a more mathy way i guess where i could somehow map the current hp total to return an rgb tuple that gets progressively more red

but thank u

[uneven eagle]

red = 255 - health

@dawn quiver

[finite abyss]

Also, it could think that red is not a variable, but a color

[proper peak]

then you basically want a colormap function. Check out the ones matplotlib has, for example, and use one of them for your own means. Jet goes blue-green-red, for example.
https://matplotlib.org/3.1.1/gallery/color/colormap_reference.html

if you want a really simple one, just linearly interpolate between blue and red(passing through purple):

def my_cmap(val):
    red = np.array([255,0,0],dtype=np.uint8)
    blue = np.array([0,255,0],dtype=np.uint8)
    if not 0<=val<=1:
        raise ValueError(f"{val} is not in the [0,1] range!")
    return blue*val + red*(1-val)

[stiff sentinel]

Please tell how to break while loop

[proper peak]

break.

[dawn quiver]

hello

i have a problem kivy - window abort

please help me

[ashen shale]

if y'all were to make a tictactoe game, how would you manage player state? as separate objects? or attributes on a generic Game object?

[dawn quiver]

hello
i have a problem kivy - window abort
please help me

[ashen shale]

@dawn quiver do not spam

[dawn quiver]

i am not saming

[ashen shale]

you just posted the same exact text twice in a row

[dawn quiver]

oooo sory

you are making tictactoe?

[tranquil girder]

What I did was to store current player in a variable and just flip it every turn. And the "buttons" store who clicked on it and gets disabled after

[ashen shale]

thinking about it to try some TDD skills. just a simple console thing but I haven't touched gamedev in like 10 yrs

[dawn quiver]

why

[ashen shale]

because I value learning and growth?

[dawn quiver]

ooooo

[ashen shale]

so you didn't even go with a "Player" or actor approach, you just had a current_player or similar attribute to denote current turn

[tranquil girder]

Eventually I changed it to avoid using global variables, but I didn't make a custom class or anything. https://github.com/pokepetter/ursina/blob/master/samples/tic_tac_toe.py

[proper peak]

if we're sharing tic-tac-toes, here's mine 😛
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/oxaqebimut.py

no user interface, just text. I wrote it as a proof-of-concept in as little code as I could, essentially.

[tranquil girder]

Nice. I like the win check

[ashen shale]

I'm experimenting with gamedev in Rust and starting as small as I can 😄

[dawn quiver]

i am also making gessing game😋

[ashen shale]

@dawn quiver to address you from earlier; I've never used kivy. I know people often use pygame for gamedev in Python

[dawn quiver]

i use pygame but i am learning kivy but in install kivy it give error

[broken hamlet]

Do you need help with that or are you just telling us?

[daring forum]

Hello, how can i get a color of a rect?

i draw a rect

color_select = pygame.draw.rect(screen, i, (window_width - x_color_select_size, window_height - y_color_select_size, 50, 50))

now how can i acces its color?

like ```py
color_select.color

@broken hamlet

[round sail]

how do i run my pygame project

I code with sublime text

and i dont now how to run my project

[floral lion]

Guys what is the most advanced game python can make?

[broken hamlet]

I don't know. Try it out or look it up.

[exotic laurel]

My pygame rendering is a bit wonky, images sometimes skip a frame for no technical reason at all, what can I do?
Currently I'm blitting every image i need that is contained inside the list PER frame. I don't know if the images just disappearing is a flaw in my code or if it isn't, if it is how can i fix it? (provided that 'state' always equals 1)

     def update(self):
        if self.state == 0:
            SCREEN.blit(self.image, ( self.rect.x,  self.rect.y))
        elif self.state == 1:
            # moving stuff
            if self.rect.x > screen_width or self.rect.y > screen_height:
                self.state = -1

#in the while 
        for sword in swords:
            if sword.state != -1:
                sword.update()
            else:
                swords.remove(sword)
        pg.display.flip()

[dawn quiver]

how to make gravity for rec

[exotic laurel]

Add it's y value by a certain amount

[dawn quiver]

i need help please it says window abort error

[dawn quiver]

thaanks

[exotic laurel]

np

[dawn quiver]

import math
pygame.init()
screen= pygame.display.set_mode((800,600))
pygame.display.set_caption("Downrider")
icon = pygame.image.load('shovel.png')
pygame.display.set_icon(icon)

playerImg = pygame.image.load('player.png')
playerX = 40
playerY = 70
 
enemyImg = []
enemyX = []
enemyY = []
enemyX_change = []
enemy_num = 5
for i in range(enemy_num):
    enemyImg.append(pygame.image.load('enemy.png'))
    enemyX.append(590)
    enemyY.append(30)
    enemyX_change.append(0.5)
lives = 5
def player(x,y):
    screen.blit(playerImg, (playerX,playerY))
def enemy(x,y,i):
    screen.blit(enemyImg[i], (enemyX[i],enemyY[i]))
def isCollision(enemyX,enemyY,playerX,playerY):
    distance = math.sqrt(math.pow(enemyX - playerX, 2) + math.pow(enemyY - playerY, 2))
    if (distance < 15):
    
        return True
    else:
        return False
done = False
while not done:
    screen.fill((255,255,0))
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            done = True
            pygame.display.flip()
    if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
        if event.key == pygame.K_DOWN:
            playerY += 0.31
        if event.key == pygame.K_UP:
            playerY -= 0.31
        playerX += 0.09
    #boundaries
    if playerY <= 0:
        playerY = 0
    elif playerY >= 536:
        playerY = 536
    #movement
    for i in range(enemy_num):
        enemyX[i] += enemyX_change[i]
        if enemyX[i] <= 0:
            enemyX_change[i] = 0.3
        elif enemyX[i] >= 600:
            enemyX_change[i] = -0.3
    #collision
        collision = isCollision(enemyX[i],enemyY[i],playerX,playerY)
        if collision:
            playerX = 40
            playerY = 70
            lives -= 1
            print ("lives left:",lives)
        enemy(enemyX[i],enemyY[i],i)
    player(playerX,playerY)
    pygame.display.update() ```

this is my code

but only 1 enemy is loading in

instead of 5

[rich sand]

hello, could someone help?

I am making a game with pygame and in a _check_collisions function, i check if the player 1 collides with player 2, if this is true and player 1 is punching, the player 2 loses an amount of health, but when i hit the player 2 he loses way more health because the collision is detected many times between the two rects

this is the code :

player_col = pygame.sprite.collide_mask(self, game.player2)
if player_col and self.punching:
print("COLLISION!!")
game.player2.health -= self.settings.punch_damage

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[keen mortar]

I need some help with pygame

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[paper latch]

pygame.init()
surface = pygame.display.set_mode((1280, 820))

def start_the_game():
pass

menu = pygame_menu.Menu(820, 1280, 'Welcome',
theme=pygame_menu.themes.THEME_ORANGE)

menu.add_text_input('Name :', default='DRIVEN TO LEARN')
menu.add_text_input(' Move the car with the arrow keys and dodge all obstacles, obtain a score of 250 to win')
menu.add_button('Play', start_the_game)
menu.add_button('Quit', pygame_menu.events.EXIT)

menu.mainloop(surface)
Could someone pls help what do I do at the def start_the_game function I'm done my game it's just the menu play button won't work and I don't know how to def start_the_game im new to python
THIS is due tmrw I am done my game just need some help to start the game through the menu if someone could pls help it would be appreciated

[keen mortar]

can someone help me

[tranquil girder]

No. Just ask and people will help you if they can, when they have time

[dawn quiver]

Does anybody know any good game frameworks apart from pygame and arcade?

[pastel harbor]

How about something like anime games

[dawn quiver]

enemyImg = []
enemyX = []
enemyY = []
enemyX_change = []
enemy_num = 5
for i in range(enemy_num):
    enemyImg.append(pygame.image.load('enemy.png'))
    enemyX.append(random.randint(0,736))
    enemyY.append(random.randint(50,150)
    enemyX_change.append(0.5)

I'm getting a syntax error at ```
enemyX_change.append(0.5)

[dawn quiver]

The easiest way to program a downloader:

import urllib.request
from tqdm import tqdm
link = input("Enter the link u want to download: ")
name = input("Enter how u want to name the download app (must include a .png, .jpg, .htm, .py, etc, etc at the end: ")
def downloadfile():
    urllib.request.urlretrieve(link, name)

for i in tqdm(range(int(9e6))):
    pass
downloadfile()

[dawn quiver]

what is the syntax error?

nevermind i fixed it

didn't put a paren

oh

lmao

[dawn quiver]

yeah dumb mistake

now here's my enemy code

enemyImg = pygame.image.load('enemy.png')
enemyX =(700)
enemyY =(550)
enemyX_change =(0.5)

enemy1Img =(pygame.image.load('enemy.png')
enemy1X =(700)
enemy1Y =(450)
enemy1X_change =(0.5)

enemy2Img =(pygame.image.load('enemy.png')
enemy2X =(700)
enemy2Y =(350)
enemy2X_change =(0.5)

enemy3Img =(pygame.image.load('enemy.png')
enemy3X =(700)
enemy3Y =(250)
enemy3X_change =(0.5)

enemy4Img =(pygame.image.load('enemy.png')
enemy4X =(700)
enemy4Y =(150)
enemy4X_change =(0.5)

enemy5Img=(pygame.image.load('enemy.png')
enemy5X =(700)
enemy5Y =(50)
enemy5X_change =(0.5)

but im getting a syntax error at

enemy1X =(700)

for some reason

so can someone tell me why

[dawn quiver]

idk the reason

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-shrug-不造-i-dont-know-gif-5094560

[frank field]

Hey @dawn quiver!

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

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[dawn quiver]

import urllib.request
from os.path import getsize
from tqdm import tqdm
import time
link = input("Enter the link u wanna download here: ")
name = input("Enter the name u wish the link to be called (has to have a .jpg, .png, .html, etc tag at the end): ")
def downloadfile():
    urllib.request.urlretrieve(link, name)

print("Downloading in progress...")
for i in tqdm(range(int(9e6))):
    pass

print("Downloading code...")
for i in tqdm(range(int(9e6))):
    pass

print("Downloading","'",link,"'", "and naming it", "'",name,"'", "this may take a while...",)
downloadfile()

file_path = name

file_size = getsize(file_path)
for i in tqdm(range(int(file_size))):
    pass


print("Turning it into a shortcut...")
for i in tqdm(range(int(9e6))):
    pass

print("Done!, closing program...")
for i in tqdm(range(int(9e6)), ncols=50):
    pass
time.sleep(0.5)

[dawn quiver]

dude, when there are 2 parenthesis facing right u need to put the same amount of closing ones

#instead of typing it like this:
enemy1Img =(pygame.image.load('enemy.png')
#type it like this!
enemy1Img =(pygame.image.load('enemy.png'))

or maybe the error is that u put parenthesis in an integer

enemy1X = (700)
#maybe the thing u should do is:
enemy1X = 700

[dawn quiver]

ohhh right

thanks so much

[daring forum]

Why is pygame not detecting input?

if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
  if event.key == pygame.K_LSHIFT:
    print('0')

[dawn quiver]

ur welcome

[dawn quiver]

import pygame
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((input_a, input_b))
running = True
x = 30
y = 30
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
while running:
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            print(event)
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                running = False
         
        pressed = pygame.key.get_pressed()
        if pressed[pygame.K_UP]: y -= 3
        if pressed[pygame.K_DOWN]: y += 3
        if pressed[pygame.K_LEFT]: x -= 3
        if pressed[pygame.K_RIGHT]: x += 3
        
        screen.fill((0,128,0))
        color = (0,0,255)
        red = (255, 0, 0)
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, color, pygame.Rect(x, y, 60, 60))         
        pygame.display.flip()
        clock.tick(60)

[daring forum]

hm?

oh

okay

[dawn quiver]

get it?

[daring forum]

yes, and how to get a input?

[dawn quiver]

pressed = pygame.key.get_pressed()
if pressed[pygame.K_LSHIFT]:
    print("0")

[daring forum]

okay, and how to get input?

[dawn quiver]

wdym

if u press shift it'll print 0

[daring forum]

yes but how can i get text input?

[dawn quiver]

input()

[daring forum]

can you give me an example?

[dawn quiver]

input("hru? ")

[daring forum]

wdym

oh

nwm

[dawn quiver]

u cud type in the input

[dawn quiver]

import pygame
pygame.init()
pressed = pygame.key.get_pressed
player = input(pressed)
if player == pressed[pygame.LSHIFT]:
    print("0")

look at the error @daring forum

im sorry that i didnt provide the solution

[daring forum]

hm? I already got it like 10 mins ago

[dawn quiver]

LMAO

xD

show me

[daring forum]

.

[exotic laurel]

How can I rotate a sprite without it discombobulating?

code: ```py
def update(self):
if self.state == 0: # provided that the state is always 0
self.image = pg.transform.rotozoom(self.image, 1, 1)
self.rect.center = self.starting_pos # an attempt to recenteralize the sprite

https://gyazo.com/ddbfe234a8bbe8da3dac7211d7eeccd6

[whole coyote]

+1 for using discombobulating.

What axis do you want to rotate it about? And where is it's center?

[potent ice]

@exotic laurel I know @foggy python covered this topic : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYNrBrBOgTfHswcz2DdZQFA

[small ermine]

is there any way to make files compiled with pyinstaller smaller in size?

[thick wasp]

i need help with platforms in pygame

anyone have any suggetsion in hwo to do thta

?

[thick wasp]

oof

[severe saffron]

you haven't really asked a question

what are you specifically trying to do, and what problem are you having @thick wasp

[thick wasp]

im trying to make it so that when i jump ON to a platform a lanf there and i stay there until i jump of it

[severe saffron]

cool

so you need a way to check whether the player is on a platform or not

and then a way to stop them falling if that's the case

[thick wasp]

yeah

yes

exactly

[severe saffron]

any ideas?

[thick wasp]

welp that basicaly my quetion

what things can i do

to be able to preform such task

[severe saffron]

so

my basic outline would be

store a list of platforms and their sizes and positions

every time you make the player fall, also check whether they're on a platform

if so, don't make them fall

i.e. don't apply gravity

[thick wasp]

hmmmm

i can try

but i most likely will fail

[thick wasp]

perosnlay rn i wnat to make on platform and then go on from tehre

[severe saffron]

right

so

do that

try and probably fail

but that's infinitely better than asking someone to do it for you then giving up when no one answers

[thick wasp]

that is true

[potent ice]

Making things like that is great practice. You might fail on the first version. That is fine.

That will eventually lead you to learn simple spatial hashing : https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/general-and-gameplay-programming/spatial-hashing-r2697/

That will make your game fast.

For those interested in low level rendering there is a brand new project prototype glnext. It's a python wrapper for vulkan : https://github.com/cprogrammer1994/glnext

It's kind of ModernGL, but using Vulkan 😉

Obviously because the creator is also the ModernGL creator

[radiant echo]

hi can someone help me

[potent ice]

Not until you ask the question. Never ask to ask 😉

[radiant echo]

lol okay sorry, do you know how to change a cursor in pygame

i don't want a standard mouse thing, i want cross hairs for my bow and arrow game

[potent ice]

What have you found out so far about this?

[radiant echo]

well, I went on to git hub and saw other peoples takes on making it but I still don't understand, so practically nothing

[potent ice]

A good place to start is looking in the official docs: https://www.pygame.org/docs/

[radiant echo]

would you like me to send my code so you can just look at it?

[potent ice]

I have never tried making custom cursor in pygame. I'm just saying that looking in official docs is always the first thing you should do : https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/cursors.html?highlight=cursor#module-pygame.cursors

[radiant echo]

I did actually, I searched on google, that is what led to me going onto github, it said, here are examples:

[potent ice]

What is the problem with your code? You can always post a snippet

I don't know if I can help, but I can take a look

[radiant echo]

https://repl.it/@Koleo/NiftyFortunateHertz#main.py

here, run it until you get teh play game screen

the*

[potent ice]

oh. I don't think that will work on repl.it

[radiant echo]

why's that?

i don't know if you can or can't see it, but I'm only seeing like half of what is normally displayed when I click "run"

there are more targets on the left

[potent ice]

What you see in repl.it is not a normal window. It's an offscreen surface really

I bet if you run your program locally you will see the cursor

[radiant echo]

got it

[potent ice]

You could make a sprite follow the cursor. That is a way around it

[radiant echo]

what is that exactly

sorry lol, im fairly new at this

[potent ice]

You already track mouse position```python
if e.type == QUIT:
running = False
if e.type == MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
mx, my = e.pos
button = e.button for e in event.get():
elif e.type == MOUSEMOTION:
mx, my = e.pos

so you could draw something at the mouse position?

but I guess you can't remove the actual mouse cursor in repl.it?

[radiant echo]

not sure

thank you though

[potent ice]

You might get more mouse lag doing it like that.

[radiant echo]

yeah true

could you maybe help me with something else?

I want to shoot the targets and have it show up as a "+1"
like a point system, how do I do that exactly

[dawn quiver]

import pygame
pygame.init()
score = 0
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((1000, 600))
screen_rect=screen.get_rect()
player=pygame.Rect(180, 180, 60, 60)
running = True
is_blue = True
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
while running:
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            print(event)
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                running = False
         
        keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
        if keys[pygame.K_w]: player.move_ip(0, -3)
        if keys[pygame.K_a]: player.move_ip(-3, 0)
        if keys[pygame.K_s]: player.move_ip(0, 3)
        if keys[pygame.K_d]: player.move_ip(3, 0)

        player.clamp_ip(screen_rect)
        if player == #type ur action here|:
                 score = score+1
        screen.fill((0,128,0))
        color = (0,0,255)
        red = (255, 0, 0)
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, color, player)         
        pygame.display.flip()

pip install pygame

cmd in command prompt

for pygame to respond

[dry totem]

heyy I have a doubt.....what code do I use to make bmi calculator??

[low quest]

hi unriel engine does anyone knows

unreal engine

[low quest]

looking for a software developer to work on the project

[eager kiln]

isn't python in unreal only on beta?

[fervent rose]

There’s no official support afaik

[dawn quiver]

whats a bmi calcultor

ik the code for a REGULAR calculator

def add(x, y):
    return x + y

def subtract(x, y):
    return x - y

def multiply(x, y):
    return x * y

def divide(x, y):
    return x / y


print("Select operation.")
print("1.Add")
print("2.Subtract")
print("3.Multiply")
print("4.Divide")

while True:
    
    choice = input("Enter choice(1/2/3/4): ")

    
    if choice in ('1', '2', '3', '4'):
        num1 = float(input("Enter first number: "))
        num2 = float(input("Enter second number: "))

        if choice == '1':
            print(num1, "+", num2, "=", add(num1, num2))

        elif choice == '2':
            print(num1, "-", num2, "=", subtract(num1, num2))

        elif choice == '3':
            print(num1, "*", num2, "=", multiply(num1, num2))

        elif choice == '4':
            print(num1, "/", num2, "=", divide(num1, num2))
    else:
        print("Invalid Input")
        
    if choice == 'cancel calculator':
        break

[severe saffron]

look up what the formula for bmi is

then calculate it from user input

[dry totem]

for this thankuuu😇

[severe saffron]

[radiant echo]

i get a syntax error

[dry totem]

what code do i use to compute all multiples of 3, 5 that are less than 100 in python??

[radiant echo]

hey does anyone know how to make a countdown/timer in pygame?

[potent ice]

@radiant echo http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/time.html#pygame.time.get_ticks

This will give you a start time.

Subtract get_ticks from the start time to get elapsed time

You can try this in a separate test script using python's time module

[radiant echo]

hm

okay

[potent ice]

Can maybe make a small Countdown or Timer class for this so it can be reused in the future

[brittle nacelle]

Hi iv just got a pi 4 iv only coded with basic does python have a sprite properties list ?

[dawn quiver]

hello all, i am new to this server please tell me where to start 🙂

[dawn quiver]

@dawn quiver #welcome

and #❓｜how-to-get-help

also are you under 13

i am 13

[agile delta]

Hello!!

Quick question

How do I make a text-based game without a huge abundance and usage of if statements?

My last text-based project had over 50 if/elif statements, and I didn't like it..

So how would I make a very efficient text-based game?

Thanks

-Majestic

[sage delta]

@agile delta Id suggest useing Godot, its native scripting language is based of off python and it will make your game easier and more "game-like" but thats just my suggestion

btw Godot is a game engine not a language

[agile delta]

Hmm

Does it have UIs?

[sage delta]

mhm

[agile delta]

Sweet

[sage delta]

https://godotengine.org/

[agile delta]

But let's say I was working solely on Python. How would I do it?

(Making an efficient text-based game)

[sage delta]

oooo

i guess it depends on the game

if you want a basic text based one then go for a bunch of if statements

okok

ill send a link to a REALLY awesome vid i used

[agile delta]

Alright :D

[sage delta]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFW8DJ6qsak&list=PL1-slM0ZOosXf2oQYZpTRAoeuo0TPiGpm&index=1

[agile delta]

I underestimated my previous game. I thought I'd be using a few if statements, but used over 50.

[sage delta]

Try this

[agile delta]

Thanks!

[sage delta]

ofc

[agile delta]

:)

[sage delta]

There are a BUNCH of tutorials online, so just search a bit and find a couple that interest you

have fun!

[agile delta]

Alright thanks man!

Have a nice day

[devout walrus]

Who knows how to make a 3dmg models

[agile delta]

What?

[severe saffron]

i have no idea

google says that's a thing from attack on titan

but i have no idea why you'd ask for instructions on how to model a very specific pretend sword in a python discord server

ah looks like it's a classic anime 'sword + gun + jetpack + grappling hook + armor '

[exotic laurel]

When I change the window from fullscreen to windowed, it goes out of screen, how can i fix this?

[frank kiln]

anyone wanna help me develop a minecraft hacked client? i am new to coding and trying to learn. would be nice if you have a bit of experience so you can show me.

[golden ibex]

if you're new to coding, then developing games isn't the best thing to do at first.

[whole coyote]

!rule 5

[frank field]

Rules

5. Do not provide or request help on projects that may break laws, breach terms of services, be considered malicious or inappropriate. Do not help with ongoing exams. Do not provide or request solutions for graded assignments, although general guidance is okay.

[mystic lodge]

mine craft is coded in java/c++ how would you make a hack client for it with python?

[daring forum]

how can I delay input?

[last moon]

Image detection + m&k controllers

You can’t really do much else unless there’s some internal hack to get a py extension going

Even if that worked tho I’d assume there’d be a lot of limitations

Also not rule 5 unless you try to resell the code

Otherwise Forge would be against their tos

[mystic lodge]

ok

[sturdy hinge]

try this

import time
time.sleep(Amount Of Seconds For Delay)

[devout walrus]

Looking for game devs and 3dm modles

[potent ice]

@devout walrus More information is needed. What kind of project is it? What is the license of the project?

Is this an open source game project for example?

[devout walrus]

i'll give

This is. a game on Attack on titan the anime
we wont have rights to sell it but if we do pricing is 10-15 bucks
This is a project on ue4 and its a open world anime game and
its multiplayer game
Its in the devolopment

[devout walrus]

I have gave the info

[potent ice]

@devout walrus So the license of the project is what?

[devout walrus]

What does that mean
Im sorry this is MY first ever prject

with a group of freinds

[potent ice]

!rule 6

[frank field]

Rules

6. No spamming or unapproved advertising, including requests for paid work. Open-source projects can be shared with others in #python-general and code reviews can be asked for in a help channel.

[potent ice]

I am not sure where this belongs

The question I guess is if this is an open-source project or not

[wet hare]

any idea how i should check for collisions because colliderect() is not working ;-;

[devout walrus]

its a free game if uwant to talk with the devs sure i;ll inv u to the server

[potent ice]

Does it use python?

[devout walrus]

Yes im usin python for our bots and stuff
We r planninf to do server hosrting with python if it works

[wet hare]

this is what my main.py file looks like where im cloning the enemies
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ijemexilaq.rb
any ideas how i should check for collisions? because my current method is not working

[devout walrus]

It isnt a paid work
We arent paying for anything

[fervent rose]

Hello @devout walrus! As your project isn’t Python related and not open-source, I’m afraid this falls under our 6th rule,

[devout walrus]

Hmm How will I uh make it related

we are using the #networks lessons to try making the game multiplayer

[fervent rose]

Still, you don’t use Python here

And it is still closed source

[devout walrus]

how may. i open it?

[fervent rose]

You can host the game on a plublic repository for example

[devout walrus]

alright

[cinder widget]

hi i need help with pygame

in chromium

?

[mystic lodge]

hi i need help with pygame
@cinder widget
what is the problem?

[cinder widget]

its ok now

[cinder widget]

well

i have another problem

[dawn quiver]

any one know how can i read game memory (for hack) using python

[potent ice]

!rule 5

[frank field]

Rules

5. Do not provide or request help on projects that may break laws, breach terms of services, be considered malicious or inappropriate. Do not help with ongoing exams. Do not provide or request solutions for graded assignments, although general guidance is okay.

[potent ice]

This will be the case with most games

@cinder widget Pro tip: When you need help you can do the following: Before posting anything you should spend time time formulating the problem and a relevant code snippet. You really only need to make one single post with this content. Don't ask to ask or say you have a problem without any other context 🙂

[slim sky]

Wht to replace "type ur action here" With? Facing error

I have full code to make flappy bird

[mystic lodge]

can anyone help me with a problem im having in pygame?

im trying to make a bullet shoot

but it just ends up going to the edge of the screen

[low shadow]

i didnt get u