#game-development | Python | Page 88

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 6:23 AM

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Back in a couple of minutes...

timber kayak Jun 20, 2021, 6:23 AM

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Hmm

spiral basin Jun 20, 2021, 6:24 AM

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Do you know what circular important means?

timber kayak Jun 20, 2021, 6:25 AM

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spiral basin Do you know what circular important means?

Nope

spiral basin Jun 20, 2021, 6:26 AM

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It mean the module is importing a module that is importing it

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Aka
Code for module a is:
Import b
But code for module b is
Import a

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So parts of code that use those modules can't be Initialized

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U can try to download delete pygame and install again(latest version preferably)

timber kayak Jun 20, 2021, 6:48 AM

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Hmm alr

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 7:25 AM

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this is because you named your file 'pygame.py'

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An import basically means that your importing a certain python file

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so when you import 'requests' your actually basically taking the code from a file called 'requests.py' and using it in your file

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but when you name your file the same as the file your importing from, it will import the file yourwriting

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basically

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just change the name of your file

midnight heart Jun 20, 2021, 8:17 AM

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how can i export a pygame game to a apk file?

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 8:57 AM

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midnight heart how can i export a pygame game to a apk file?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQTIllli6js

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midnight heart Jun 20, 2021, 8:58 AM

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uh thank you 🙂

sturdy summit Jun 20, 2021, 1:54 PM

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Hey Y'all ... someone to help me a good manner to code with pygame ?

I've used to make 3 easy game with pygame... In the beggining, the code look clean, but at the last, there are a lot of file.py , test.py everywhere and the main.py is look like my room ...

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 1:55 PM

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Well

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i personally sort everything if it gets mess

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 1:56 PM

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Awesome, how soon can ya get here?

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 1:57 PM

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dawn quiver i personally sort everything if it gets mess

Such as keeping all elements in seperate files

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The player object in a player.py and ect.

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Then importing everything in the main file

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oten tho if your game is less than 1500 lines theres no need to do this

sturdy summit Jun 20, 2021, 1:58 PM

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the mess is when i try to add some new function to the game, i didn't even know where should I put it in the project... and if i find, i try to run, but a lot of bugs ... I'm using Git to fix my error bcs some the time, i'don't even know what's happen (lol)

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 1:58 PM

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It must really just be that you arent following good practise 😄

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 1:58 PM

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sturdy summit the mess is when i try to add some new function to the game, i didn't even know ...

how is git going to help tho

sturdy summit Jun 20, 2021, 1:59 PM

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roolback to the last modification where the game's run ? '-'

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 2:01 PM

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true

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personally i spam command z

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but preferances ig

sturdy summit Jun 20, 2021, 2:02 PM

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command z only if i remember when i have put modification ...

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 2:03 PM

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true

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github can be useful

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 2:03 PM

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I'm not sure how long the undo buffer is in VSC by default, but I've never ran out of ctrl z unless I close it

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 2:03 PM

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you can undo everything you did when you opened it

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after that, no

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 2:08 PM

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Sounds, I've recorded all of the sounds from the game's test mode and cut them all into their own wav files, now to learn how to implement them

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 2:11 PM

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pygame has a good sound system

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 2:12 PM

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I'll start with some basic sounds, shoot first, pew pew pew

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 2:44 PM

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That was easy

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 3:12 PM

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And I worked out thruster sound to keep repeating but not keep adding more channels of it when the player holds the thrster key

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The thruster didn't sound right when simply playing it when the key is held because it kept adding more channels

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 3:56 PM

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You need a closing ' in that liine: print('you lose srry maybe next time)

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print('you lose srry maybe next time')like that

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I don't know where that line is in relation to the code you're showing, but it's correct in the code

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 5:46 PM

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Look at that logo exploding...now I just ahve to do it in reverse

marble bison Jun 20, 2021, 5:48 PM

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makae this a loading screen

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its cool how like whens its done loading it just finshes colouring up the whole title

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 5:48 PM

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It will be an attract screen, sorta like a loading screen

marble bison Jun 20, 2021, 5:49 PM

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limber veldt It will be an attract screen, sorta like a loading screen

whats ur game bout

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r u doing this for fun or for actaully making it popular game

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 5:49 PM

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Shooting enemy alien spaceship before they capture and mutate all the humans

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Fun

marble bison Jun 20, 2021, 5:49 PM

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limber veldt Fun

thats nice

marble bison Jun 20, 2021, 5:50 PM

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limber veldt Look at that logo exploding...now I just ahve to do it in reverse

the exploding kinda too like vibrant and like idk big

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 5:50 PM

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I already have the actual game that I can play any time, but I want to recreate it in Python

marble bison Jun 20, 2021, 5:50 PM

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me and my friend wanna create a game but we dont know the idea lemon_pensive

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 5:50 PM

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Yeah, the game's big on particle effects, like everywhere all the time, particles

marble bison Jun 20, 2021, 5:52 PM

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https://paste.pythondiscord.com/pahabibule.lua yo i made this chat game if u wanna play

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 5:52 PM

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It's a simple game with complex things, the original game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAKxa5C9jHY&t=2940s

YouTube

Don Grose

Williams Defender arcade. Clock 1 million, clock waves, pick up all...

This is Williams Defender green label on MAME, factory settings. On wave 1 I pick up all ten and force 5 through to the top of the screen. This is a bug and I always wondered what happens as they start to crawl down the screen when they reach the bottom. Gary Whittingtham has done this and I wanted to do the same myself. You can see they eventua...

▶ Play video

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Mine's getting there

marble bison Jun 20, 2021, 5:53 PM

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limber veldt Mine's getting there

good anough t i feel like only muisic missign lol i meant sound effects

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 5:54 PM

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Yeah, and I've started adding those too

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Has ship thruster and bullet sound effects so far

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They're easy to add

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Just a matter of time

marble bison Jun 20, 2021, 5:55 PM

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😔 im gonna make a pygame now since im done my 1st ever actaull project

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probably gonna do snake game

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 5:55 PM

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Yeah, it's fun if you have something you just have to make

marble bison Jun 20, 2021, 5:55 PM

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coding is fun when u get the basics done

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 5:55 PM

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Or just bored and want something to do, pygame

marble bison Jun 20, 2021, 6:01 PM

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@limber veldt where do i put the image files

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 6:02 PM

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I don't have any for this project but usually I'll put them in a subfolder in the same folder as my main file

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 6:11 PM

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limber veldt Look at that logo exploding...now I just ahve to do it in reverse

woah

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damn

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thats really good

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im thinking of making an among us clone 4 games later

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 6:13 PM

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Thanks, that making it in reverse thing is a struggle but I'll get it, just a matter of getting the maths right

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 6:15 PM

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already made a doodle jump clone

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 6:15 PM

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haha, cute

marble bison Jun 20, 2021, 6:38 PM

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my 1st pygame so far its basiccly a square u can jsut move around so far im making snake game

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@limber veldt

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😄

marble bison Jun 20, 2021, 6:38 PM

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dawn quiver already made a doodle jump clone

:0 cool

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 6:44 PM

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limber veldt haha, cute

did the art myself

dawn quiver Jun 20, 2021, 6:44 PM

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marble bison my 1st pygame so far its basiccly a square u can jsut move around so far im maki...

nice!

midnight heart Jun 20, 2021, 7:01 PM

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TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not BytesIO

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what does it mean?

void acorn Jun 20, 2021, 8:42 PM

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excuse me what

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lmao

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i somehow imported a random project

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 10:38 PM

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Boom!

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Well, opposite of boom...unboom!

limber veldt Jun 20, 2021, 10:56 PM

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All that data you see there and in the minimap is just for the Williams animation and the logo for the attract mode

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That's a lot of stuff but worth it for the effects

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My game loads no images from disk, creates them all from scratch

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 12:53 AM

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Tic tac toe

steady torrent Jun 21, 2021, 3:17 AM

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I have a questiin, does unity support python

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?

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 3:20 AM

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i was making a game through a tutorial help and the guy said after the episode was done now we done something of a little stupid game

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;-;

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 4:57 AM

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@limber veldt how do you record only the python launchers window ThinkButCooler

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 4:57 AM

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steady torrent I have a questiin, does unity support python

No

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neither does any popular game engine

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other than unreal engine

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or atleast ive heard

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 4:58 AM

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marble bison i was making a game through a tutorial help and the guy said after the episode ...

?

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elaborate

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:19 AM

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collidelist()
test if one rectangle in a list intersects
collidelist(list) -> index
Test whether the rectangle collides with any in a sequence of rectangles. The index of the first collision found is returned. If no collisions are found an index of -1 is returned.

so ig if i have a list of tiles, i could just use this

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nvm didnt work

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:00 AM

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uhmm

Screen_Shot_2021-06-21_at_11.29.09_AM.png

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....

Screen_Shot_2021-06-21_at_11.31.31_AM.png

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better...

Screen_Shot_2021-06-21_at_11.38.03_AM.png

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issa dragon 😮

Screen_Shot_2021-06-21_at_11.40.27_AM.png

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:46 AM

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Whatever Windows calls their screenrecorder, it only records the focused window @dawn quiver

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And those are fun effects when things don't quite work

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:54 AM

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damn

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i use mac

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H5_emoji_Pensive

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:57 AM

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Looks like you making progress on your mechanics

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 7:06 AM

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idk why its making a new image every time tho

teal ember Jun 21, 2021, 7:11 AM

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dawn quiver issa dragon 😮

are you clearing the screen every frame

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cause it looks like you are drawing over the previous frame

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 7:17 AM

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That's what I was gonna ask, my dog needed help out in the rain though

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 7:48 AM

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i fixed it

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 8:31 AM

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@limber veldt I fucking did it man!!!!

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I can plot each level centered within the window now!

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took me long enough, lol....

visual bobcat Jun 21, 2021, 8:35 AM

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I have no idea what it is but it looks cool XD 👍

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 8:37 AM

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visual bobcat I have no idea what it is but it looks cool XD 👍

thanks, it's the first level from the PC game Doom. I'm writing a wadfile parser and level plotter. I gotta switch back over to Turtle now. It's going to look way cooler. It's going to draw the map as it was created!

visual bobcat Jun 21, 2021, 8:37 AM

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Oh

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Very cool indeed

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Hopefully the result will be worth it

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 8:39 AM

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once I get the plotting down and animation and GUI. I'm going to get into the networked side of it. It's going to get the level information from the idgames ftp site, pull the data to a file on disk and just draw levels at random...

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then I'm going to put it onto a Raspberry PI and make a "picture frame" thing that hangs on my room wall.

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it's going to be sick

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it's going to look like this

visual bobcat Jun 21, 2021, 9:19 AM

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Really cool

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How do you make the lines appear like that?

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 9:24 AM

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finally did the moving background

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collision kinda

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clanky tho

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 10:03 AM

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fixed the collision

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:D

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but during moving bg it gets fucked

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hmm

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 11:11 AM

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visual bobcat How do you make the lines appear like that?

it's the tk Turtle module. I draw a line then 'pull' up the pen and move to the start of the next line...

visual bobcat Jun 21, 2021, 11:12 AM

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Oh okay

void sleet Jun 21, 2021, 11:13 AM

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Do any of you have experience converting your python code to mobile apps?

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 11:32 AM

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coming along...

void sleet Jun 21, 2021, 11:35 AM

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Very nice... looks like a long time to render though.

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 11:41 AM

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void sleet Very nice... looks like a long time to render though.

this one took 3.5 secs... any ideas on how to speed it up? This was with the 'tracer' off....

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OpenGL? lol

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this one.....

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yeah I might be pushing Turtle a bit, lol

wispy topaz Jun 21, 2021, 11:44 AM

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jeez that is really cool

void sleet Jun 21, 2021, 11:45 AM

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Asking that is like me asking you if you know how to make my car go faster. And then tell you it's a sedan.
Not enough data.
time different parts of the algorithm and find your bottle neck.
Check the assembly code of that part and see if you can write it a different way so that it is more efficient.

wispy topaz Jun 21, 2021, 11:45 AM

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and surprisingly detailed

void sleet Jun 21, 2021, 11:46 AM

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It is very nice work

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 11:46 AM

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wispy topaz and surprisingly detailed

these few are from the "Whispers of Satan" pwad...

wispy topaz Jun 21, 2021, 11:46 AM

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im sorry i have no clue what that is

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 11:47 AM

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wispy topaz im sorry i have no clue what that is

user created levels for the old pc game "doom"

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it's an 'over-head' view of the level

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as seen from the auto-map

wispy topaz Jun 21, 2021, 11:48 AM

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ahh ok

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 12:21 PM

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grim abyss this one.....

woah

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what is that

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 12:21 PM

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dawn quiver what is that

it's a level from a doom pwad.

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i'm writing a program that parses the level data within wadfiles and plots it

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 12:22 PM

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:0

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 12:27 PM

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my python snake game so far

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 12:37 PM

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So far so good

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 12:41 PM

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limber veldt So far so good

😄

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me and my friends are gonna make a sumarai game soon

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 12:41 PM

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Code for imploding that logopy def implode_row(self, offset, vel_y): loc = [self.x, self.y + offset] vel = [16, -vel_y] rect_x = 0 rect_y = offset loc_x = loc[0] - vel[0] * 100 loc_y = loc[1] + vel_y * 100 for i in range(40): particle = LogoParticle([vel[0], vel[1]], self.surface, [loc_x, loc_y], [rect_x, rect_y, 5, 5]) rect_x += 10 loc_x += 70 vel[0] -= .6 #loc = [self.x, self.y + offset] vel = [4, -vel_y] rect_x = 5 #rect_y = offset loc_x = loc[0] + -vel[0] * 100 #loc_y = loc[1] + vel_y * 100 for i in range(40): particle = LogoParticle([vel[0], vel[1]], self.surface, [loc_x, loc_y], [rect_x, rect_y, 5, 5]) rect_x += 10 loc_x += 70 vel[0] -= .6

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Particle args: vel, image, pos, blit_rect

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I should just add another arg to it and pass lifetime, too. LogoParticle() is exactly the same as EnemyParticle() except one has a longer age before it's killed

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Velocity describes its direction and how fast it's moving, image is the image/surface to make the particle from, pos is where it's born, and blit_rect describes the source x/y/width/height in the image/surface for the particle

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Since I'm using a surface of 70 pixels height and making 6x6 particles from it, I need to call implode_row() 12 times, once for each row of 6 pixels

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def implode(self):
        self.implode_row(0, -5)
        self.implode_row(6, -4)
        self.implode_row(12, -3)
        self.implode_row(18, -2)
        self.implode_row(24, -1)
        self.implode_row(30, 0)
        self.implode_row(36, 1)
        self.implode_row(42, 2)
        self.implode_row(48, 3)
        self.implode_row(56, 4)
        self.implode_row(62, 5)
        self.implode_row(68, 5)

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 12:58 PM

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marble bison

Nice but increase fps and reduce dx, dy

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 12:58 PM

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limber veldt Code for imploding that logo```py def implode_row(self, offset, vel_y): ...

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wait wait

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dont tell me

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you created an object for each particle

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anyways

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 12:59 PM

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It's easier than it seems

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Well yeah

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 12:59 PM

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anyone have any ideas on how to make proper matrix movement

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 12:59 PM

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limber veldt Well yeah

.......

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 12:59 PM

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dawn quiver anyone have any ideas on how to make proper matrix movement

Like i want my matrix to change position when my character moves as well

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 12:59 PM

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dawn quiver finally did the moving background

i did do that but

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if you watch carefully

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only the image is changing position

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the object itself(the rectangle) is in the same position

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thats why he randomely stays in the air

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because thats where the rectangle is

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    def draw(self):
        for tile in self.tile_list:
            x = tile[1][0] 
            y = tile[1][1] 
            key = pygame.key.get_pressed()
            if key[K_RIGHT]:
                bx -= 5
            if key[K_LEFT]:
                bx += 5

            tile = (tile[0], pygame.Rect(x+bx, y, 30, 30))
            screen.blit(tile[0], tile[1])

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this

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is

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dumb

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only lasts for one tile

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 1:03 PM

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Each particle needs to be a sprite so it can be added to and drawn by the sprite group

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It's all objects

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My list of sprite groupspy player_group = pygame.sprite.Group() thruster_group = pygame.sprite.Group() star_group = pygame.sprite.Group() bullet_group = pygame.sprite.Group() enemy_bullet_group = pygame.sprite.Group() particle_group = pygame.sprite.Group() thruster_particle_group = pygame.sprite.Group() tiny_enemies_group = pygame.sprite.Group() enemy_group = pygame.sprite.Group() enemy_spawner_group = pygame.sprite.Group() exploding_enemies_group = pygame.sprite.Group() player_explosion_group = pygame.sprite.Group() coll_rect_group = pygame.sprite.Group() attract_group = pygame.sprite.Group() human_group = pygame.sprite.Group()

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I have this project setup as to have very little logic outside of objects. My main while loop just checks for keypresses and that's not permanent, since the player is controlled by keys, those belong in the Player() class

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I'll probably restructure some things and add a main game class to take care of game states

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Instead of player states

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 1:21 PM

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hm

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well yeah

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but

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i thought you kept each particle in a new class lmao

frank fieldBOT Jun 21, 2021, 1:22 PM

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Hey @nocturne vale!

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

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 2:16 PM

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why is
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/eyijuhulen.rb
not showing 2 squares for the snake
@limber veldt

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 4:55 PM

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No idea, it didn't work for me...hung after I pressed a couple of keys

frank fieldBOT Jun 21, 2021, 5:22 PM

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Hey @marble bison!

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

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

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:22 PM

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No but

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why ping me

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 5:22 PM

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i was showing my game

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but it delted it

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:22 PM

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o

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 5:22 PM

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😢

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:22 PM

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send a .mov file

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 5:22 PM

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how

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:22 PM

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idk were you sending a-

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oh

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you were sending an exe

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dont send that

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 5:23 PM

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ok

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:23 PM

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send a screen recording

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 5:23 PM

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ok

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but i want u to play it

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😢

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:24 PM

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No ASKonataCry

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becaause

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it could be

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a virus

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H5_emoji_cry

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and macs

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cant run executables

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 5:25 PM

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yes i totally create virus 😈

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@dawn quiver

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@limber veldt

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it hS MUISIC AND SOUnd effects but i had it mute

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:26 PM

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woah

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thats nice

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did you follow a tutorial or do that urself

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 5:26 PM

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tutorial

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:26 PM

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oh

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not nice

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 5:26 PM

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its my 1st pygame

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😢

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:26 PM

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nvm

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nice

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but now

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i recommend

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 5:26 PM

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yes ik

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:26 PM

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making your own game

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ThumbsUp

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 5:27 PM

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time to make my own game

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💃

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:27 PM

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mhm

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lesgo

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 5:27 PM

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im gonna make a sumari game

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:27 PM

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dawn quiver finally did the moving background

try this

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:27 PM

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marble bison im gonna make a sumari game

coool!!!

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 5:27 PM

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dawn quiver coool!!!

same thing jsut more detailed art by me code by me and my friend(who might not be able to be with me in the summer)

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:27 PM

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grim abyss this one took 3.5 secs... any ideas on how to speed it up? This was with the 'tr...

Was there any ML interested in this, looks very cool i wanna try, is it open sourcE?

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nvm i know another algo the same thing opensource

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:28 PM

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marble bison same thing jsut more detailed art by me code by me and my friend(who might not b...

nice

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 5:29 PM

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im gonna start off by art

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because we have the plan

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 5:30 PM

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dawn quiver Was there any ML interested in this, looks very cool i wanna try, is it open sou...

ML? Sure, it's @ https://github.com/InZane84/WADdle-Plot-CLI You'll need to 'pip install planar' and grab waddle_plot.py and waddle_plot_main.py ...

GitHub

InZane84/WADdle-Plot-CLI

A DOOM wadfile parser/level plotter. Contribute to InZane84/WADdle-Plot-CLI development by creating an account on GitHub.

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:30 PM

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mhm

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art is a good place to start'

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:30 PM

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grim abyss ML? Sure, it's @ https://github.com/InZane84/WADdle-Plot-CLI You'll need to 'pip...

thanks!

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wait u didnt use a venv?

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so i cant just

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-r requirments

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?

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woah thats a pretty big licence

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do you pay for that ThinkButCooler

frank fieldBOT Jun 21, 2021, 5:32 PM

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Hey @grim abyss!

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

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:33 PM

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bruh wow

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im seeing so many op tkinter projects today

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oh wait

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you used turtle

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        # DEBUGGING ==========================================================
        # self.debug_points = self.getPoints("vectors.bin")
        # self.canvas.create_line()
        # self._points_toFile("vectors.bin")
        # ===================================================================
        # ============================|
        # These two are set...      # |
        self._wadfile = None        # |
        self.level = None           # |
        # =============================
        # here...                   # |
        self.game = "DOOM"
        self.loadWad("C:\Pydevel\WOS.wad")    # |
        self.loadLevel("MAP03")      # |
        # =============================

comments lvl 100

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 5:39 PM

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lol, yeah turtle and tkinter. I'm trying to push the new main file. I have a map selection box

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:39 PM

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Very important behavior kind of working! Lander finds human (red block for now), descends, grabs it and head for the top. If he gets there, turns to a mutant

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Clever use of hidden collision rects

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:44 PM

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hey

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@limber veldt how do create a particle

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i want an explosion effect as well

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:45 PM

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let's see...

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:47 PM

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a perfect moving background 😍

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i have to fix double jump tho

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:50 PM

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Ok, I'ma show you code that has extra stuff in it...more than necessary for the basic particle, those lines are marked with # not```py
class Particle(pygame.sprite.Sprite): # used by PlayerExplosion
def init(self, vel, pos):
super().init()
self.image = pygame.Surface((3, 3), pygame.SRCALPHA)
self.image.fill(WHITE)
self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
self.rect.x, self.rect.y = pos[0], pos[1]
self.x, self.y = pos[0], pos[1]
self.fx = float(self.x)
self.fy = float(self.y)
self.vx = float(vel[0])
self.vy = float(vel[1])
self.age = 0
self.alpha = 255 # not
self.color = pygame.color.Color('white') # not
self.color_cycler = ColorCycler(['white', 'white', 'white', 'orange', 'red']) # not
particle_group.add(self) # maybe

def update(self):
    self.color_cycler.update() # not
    self.color = self.color_cycler.current_color # not
    self.color[3] = self.alpha # not
    self.image.fill(self.color) # not
    self.fx += self.vx
    self.fy += self.vy
    self.rect.x = int(self.fx)
    self.rect.y = int(self.fy)
    self.age += 1
    if self.age > 60: # not
        self.alpha -= int(255 / 15) # not
        self.alpha = max(0, self.alpha) # not```

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:51 PM

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limber veldt Ok, I'ma show you code that has extra stuff in it...more than necessary for the ...

ayy thanks

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but

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:51 PM

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We need to cast the x and y to and from floats for the math

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:51 PM

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i was asking the conce[t

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i can implement the code myself

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:51 PM

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limber veldt We need to cast the x and y to and from floats for the math

ThinkButCooler

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so you mean a random position?

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:51 PM

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That part is necessary to understand what I'm doing

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:51 PM

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Hm

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:51 PM

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That's JUST the particle

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:52 PM

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but are each of the particles images or pygame pixels? ThinkButCooler

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:52 PM

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You have to give it a starting position and a velocity

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:52 PM

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got it

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then?

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make it move towards the ending position?

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im curious about

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:52 PM

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Look at the code, it's a Surface of 3x3 pixels, make it anything you want though

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:52 PM

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how to make that particle

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:52 PM

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limber veldt Look at the code, it's a Surface of 3x3 pixels, make it anything you want though

:0

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OHH

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:52 PM

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We're getting there

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:52 PM

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tis surface

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haha i was going to use this

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oof i cant find a pic

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but

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basically

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:53 PM

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Now on tto making an explosion of them...

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:53 PM

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i was going to make frames for each of the particle explosions haha

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this is better tho

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:53 PM

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This is way better

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:53 PM

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definetly

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@limber veldt pygame.SRCALPHA whats this?

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:54 PM

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Sets the surface to handle RGBA colors

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:54 PM

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:0

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:54 PM

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Instead of just RGB

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:54 PM

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i need to make a red particle explosion

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cause blood

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hmm

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thanks

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this was a good idea

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:55 PM

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Color values will be 255, 255, 255, 255

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:55 PM

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ThumbsUp

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:55 PM

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limber veldt Color values will be 255, 255, 255, 255

actually (255, 0, 0) for red

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:55 PM

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For an alpha surface

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No

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:55 PM

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limber veldt For an alpha surface

ohh

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okok

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:55 PM

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For an alpha surface, four values

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pygame.color.Color are all alpha colors

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:55 PM

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so i have a a question

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is arcade for performant than pygame?

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actually it doesnt matter, solo dev, not a big diff

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:56 PM

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Like pygame.color.Color('white') is (255, 255, 255, 255)

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:56 PM

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limber veldt Like pygame.color.Color('white') is (255, 255, 255, 255)

yep

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wait

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isnt it

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(255, 255, 255)

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ThinkButCooler

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:56 PM

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Nope

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:56 PM

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:0

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:56 PM

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Four values for pygame.color.Colors

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:56 PM

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ic

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:56 PM

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You can choose to ignore the fourth value, it defaults tto 255

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:56 PM

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hmm

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ohh

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you create a particle sprite group

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icic

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:57 PM

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Now, onto this explosion...

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:57 PM

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particles are interesting

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:57 PM

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limber veldt Now, onto this explosion...

Im thinking

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that ill just get a center point (zombie pos) and then

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make a random lenght from 10 to 15 pixels

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and make a random number of particles from 12 to 23

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:58 PM

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So what you need is a partticle generator that gives them a random velocity and direction

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:58 PM

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and make them scatter from that center point to the lenght

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but i dont get

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:58 PM

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We have the particles, just need the generator

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:58 PM

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why you need velocity

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gravity shoudnt affect these particles

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:58 PM

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Because all particles going the same speed just makes an expanding circle

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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:0

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aight ima sleep

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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Right?

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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nice talking with you!

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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limber veldt Because all particles going the same speed just makes an expanding circle

no

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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So we have tto randomize their speed

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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random lenght

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and

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yes

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random speed

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OHH

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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Yeah

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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i forgot what velocity was

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haha

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i thought it was gravity

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f

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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Velocity is speed

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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because i used vel_y for my gravity

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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acceleration doesnt' changes for particles

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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ofc gravity = g = 9.8 ms

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which is acceleration

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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Right

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 5:59 PM

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limber veldt acceleration doesnt' changes for particles

yep

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altho

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acceleration for these particles

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:00 PM

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If you want to apply gravity then you can use that

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:00 PM

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would be nice

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0_0

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:00 PM

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So you apply that gravity in the Particle class itself...

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:00 PM

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hmm

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well

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:00 PM

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For the particle generator, I'm using this...

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:00 PM

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i was thinking

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more in the terms of

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accelerating within the direction

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:01 PM

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class PlayerExplosion(pygame.sprite.Sprite): # used by Player
    def __init__(self, x, y):
        super().__init__()
        self.image = pygame.Surface((1, 1))
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        self.initx = x
        self.inity = y
        self.numSparks = 30
        self.age = 0
        self.exploding = False

    def update(self):
        #if not self.exploding:
        randDir = 0
        for i in range(0, self.numSparks):
            self.exploding = True
            randDir = random.uniform(0, math.pi)
            #randDir += math.pi / 4
            randSpeed = random.uniform(-5, 5)
            #randSpeed = 8 # random.uniform(-5, 5)
            xv = randSpeed * math.sin(randDir)
            yv = randSpeed * math.cos(randDir)
            particle_group.add(Particle([xv, yv], [self.x, self.y]))
        self.age += 1
        if self.age > 20:
            pygame.sprite.Sprite.kill(self)```

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:01 PM

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so it will start from random speed x

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and it will accelerate to y

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:01 PM

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xv and yv are the key

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:01 PM

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yk what i mean

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:01 PM

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limber veldt xv and yv are the key

hmm

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well

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i dont use the math module

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hopefully i dont need to use it here

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:01 PM

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You'll need cos and sin where ever you get it

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:01 PM

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normally when i see the math module in pygame, i immediately feel like this is a tutorial scam haha

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:01 PM

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limber veldt You'll need cos and sin where ever you get it

not really

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there are other ways

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:02 PM

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Yeah

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:02 PM

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oh nvm

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lmao

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:02 PM

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Of course there are other ways

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:02 PM

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i used cos and sin for my rotation game

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:02 PM

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I said no matter how you get it

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:02 PM

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direction man

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thats whats confusing

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okay i shud sleep now

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cya!

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:03 PM

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That gets this explosion, tweak as desired

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So you don't believe in doing math with something but you import a library/module for other things

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 6:07 PM

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sneak peak at one of the good guys in my upcomming games

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:07 PM

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dawn quiver normally when i see the math module in pygame, i immediately feel like this is a...

What?

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That's quite a thought

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:07 PM

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limber veldt What?

because those tutorials never explain the math behind it

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they just use it and be like "uh yeah this is what you need to type to make this happen"

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:08 PM

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limber veldt That gets this explosion, tweak as desired

:0

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:08 PM

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Well that may be the case, doesn't make the methods any less useful

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Calculators have sin and cos keys, damn hackers!

dawn quiver Jun 21, 2021, 6:08 PM

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gn! gotta sleep fr now

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 6:08 PM

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marble bison sneak peak at one of the good guys in my upcomming games

is it good or should i make better

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:08 PM

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Go back to school and learn how to calculate them yourself, slackers

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 6:09 PM

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marble bison is it good or should i make better

.

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 6:10 PM

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As a rough draft, that's fine, but he'll need some work before final production

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 7:52 PM

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That's quite a complex enemy. The lander grabs humans, tries to mutate them and if I shoot them on the way to the top with a human, it let's the human fall. During that fall, if the player collides with him, he will be caught by the player until gently returned to the ground

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 8:15 PM

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@limber veldt @dawn quiver like it now

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 8:17 PM

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Yeah, that's prettty good, nice cartoon attitude

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 8:18 PM

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limber veldt Yeah, that's prettty good, nice cartoon attitude

my brother did it hes good at art

marble bison Jun 21, 2021, 8:27 PM

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limber veldt Yeah, that's prettty good, nice cartoon attitude

any charcater ideas

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@limber veldt thinkmon

subtle vessel Jun 21, 2021, 9:17 PM

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so, btw, anyone has used other python game engines

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like pyxel, for example...

frozen knoll Jun 21, 2021, 9:44 PM

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Arcade

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https://arcade.academy

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 10:47 PM

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Rescuing humans is almost a success

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I can catch them if they're falling and deliver them safely back to the ground

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I don't like how squishy the humans are due to its later than player position updates

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Like if I fly fast or slow, the human 'slides' back and forth down there

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Best thing to do to fix would be to update the human's position in the player object which means the player object needs another flag variable to indicate whether or not he's carrying humans

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And if so, which humans

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So that it knows which to update

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I'll just make the human, who knows that he's been caught by the player, saypy player.human_cargo_list.append(self) then the player will have them in its own list

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Player that is, not human list

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That's a brilliant idea

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Then, I can get the len of that list to know how many bonus points to increment score when player delivers human(s) to the ground

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 11:46 PM

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@limber veldt that game looks legit. cool!

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the 'minimap' is neat too

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 11:46 PM

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Thanks

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Yeah, gotta have that

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 11:47 PM

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are you using arcade or pygame ?

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 11:47 PM

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Pygame

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It's a lot of work but if it really was, I wouldn't do it, it's fun

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 11:50 PM

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limber veldt It's a lot of work but if it really was, I wouldn't do it, it's fun

I can understand that! programming is fun!

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 11:50 PM

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That's hobby coding for ya

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Some people 'get it' some don't, like addictions

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 11:51 PM

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lol, good analogy...

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 11:54 PM

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My game's a remake of an old classic so I can't take all the idea credits but this python implementation is all mine

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 11:54 PM

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for sure

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 11:55 PM

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Eugene Jarvis, head writer of the game at Williams Electronics in 1980 gets all the idea creds

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Just imagine, he was doing this shit on a 6809 8-bit 2 or 3 mhz CPU with a 6808 co-processor

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In assembly! no less

grim abyss Jun 21, 2021, 11:56 PM

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yeah, it's wild. i bet the workflow sucked...debugging..

limber veldt Jun 21, 2021, 11:57 PM

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I can read that code, at least a little of it and make some sense out of it but I can't find a complete disassembly only a partial one

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https://github.com/AaronBottegal/Defender-Source-Code/blob/master/SourceCode.txt

GitHub

AaronBottegal/Defender-Source-Code

Defender arcade game code reverse engineered back into source. - AaronBottegal/Defender-Source-Code

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I wish it were better documented

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And more complete

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But whatever, I can make do with out it

grim abyss Jun 22, 2021, 12:22 AM

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@limber veldt so there's a website with alot of 'levels' created by the community that I would like to download the .zip's from and extract them in memory and plot them. Would the library 'requests' be the best forthis? This is the site: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/g-i/

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the site doesn't have any kind of 'API' exposed..

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 12:34 AM

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Oh man, no idea, ,never used requests or web stuff

neon horizon Jun 22, 2021, 1:11 AM

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is there a simple way to organize several sets of stats so they can be called on for encounters? (e.g. the player bumps into the goblin's overworld sprite and has to fight X many goblins + Y many slimes where X and Y are random positive integers)

grim abyss Jun 22, 2021, 1:16 AM

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neon horizon is there a simple way to organize several sets of stats so they can be called on...

spawn new enemy instances on overworld_enemy.onContact ?

dawn quiver Jun 22, 2021, 6:56 AM

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in turtle how can i use WASD instead of my arrow keys ?

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heres my code

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onkey(lambda: change(10, 0), 'RIGHT')

dawn quiver Jun 22, 2021, 7:17 AM

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you should

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Look at the turtle docs

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instead of asking it here

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 9:31 AM

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Looks like I have all the states worked out for my humans and landers

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Humans have these states: self.walking, self.caught_by_lander, self. falling, self.caught_by_player

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Landers have these: is_alive, is_dropping, is_searching, found_human, descending and ascending

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My landers have two additional collision rects. One to detect humans under it, the other to detect ground and keep the lander flying just above the ground and following the terrain

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But when he detects a human underneath, it overrides the ground collision

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So the sprite.collision methods return a list of group objects colliding with a sprite and we can get the group sprite with [0], like sopy human_hits = pygame.sprite.spritecollide(self.human_rect, human_group, False) if human_hits: self.human = human_hits[0]

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In my case, I'm only interested in the first item in the list even if it has multiples

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Because a lander can only pick up one human at a time

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All sorts of nuances to tthis though

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Wttf is with my t key

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Like if a human is already being picked up, other landers need to ignore it....or anytthing else. That's why I needed the walking state for the humans, they can only be picked up if they're walking

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The landers will need more states too because they're not always searching, sometimes they just fly and shoot at player

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And when they lower down to snag a human, they hover just above for second or two firing a barrage of bullets at the player then takes off with him

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:09 AM

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hi, i need some help...

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https://paste.pythondiscord.com/raw/ojozaleduq

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this is my script

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...

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and i keep getting this error

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if you see this message and know how to help, pls ping me

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I'm a beginner btw, i thought i'd let you know...

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:12 AM

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line 10 or sopy p.initshould bepy p.init()

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:12 AM

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paper sandal if you see this message and know how to help, pls ping me

Sorry, forgot to ping

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:12 AM

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oh thanks

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lemme change that

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:13 AM

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Try that, see if it works

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:13 AM

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nope :/

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it says that the error is on line 22

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:13 AM

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Ok, leave it as the corrected version, it needs the ()...

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:13 AM

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IMAGES[piece] = p.transform.scale(p.image.load("images/" + piece + ".png"), (SQ_SIZE, SQ_SIZE))

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it says that line has an error :/

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:15 AM

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Oh, ok

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So you need to find the file you're trying to load

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This is likely wrongpy p.image.load("images/" + piece + ".png")

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That need to point at the file you're trying to load and apparenttly it doesn't

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:16 AM

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ok...

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how do i correct it?

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:20 AM

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Just to try something, you can saypy IMAGE[piece] = p.Surface((10, 10)) IMAGE[piece].fill(p.color.Color('red')) instead of the line that's giving you the error and you should get a red square for the piece and no errors. How to fix it to use the images you have depends on where you put those images on your harddrive and in relation to the file you're running

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You could use an absolute path to the images but that's not best practtice

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:21 AM

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ok

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so do i try that code?

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:22 AM

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I mean, can if you want but the real fix is to point that line at the correct location of your images

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:22 AM

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ok

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so do i just put the location of the images there?

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:22 AM

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This not the path: "images/" + piece + ".png"

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:23 AM

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ok

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C:\Users\Shyaam\PycharmProjects\Chess\Chess\images

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like that?

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??

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:23 AM

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Yes, but change all the \ to /

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:23 AM

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ahh ok

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do i put it in quote marks??

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:24 AM

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p.image.load("C:/Users/Shyaam/PycharmProjects/Chess/Chess/images\" + piece + ".png")```

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:24 AM

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ohhhhh

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:24 AM

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That should work

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Maybe not

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:25 AM

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p.image.load("C:/Users/Shyaam/PycharmProjects/Chess/Chess/images/" + piece + ".png") did you mean that?

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:25 AM

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oops, I mistaked and didn't change your \ to /

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:25 AM

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ok

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:26 AM

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Corrected up there^

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:26 AM

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ok

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i did

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and i didn't get any errors

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but

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:26 AM

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Notice the last one stays a \

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No errors

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Nice

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But now there's something else?

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:27 AM

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the pygame which pops up is just blank :/

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its shud look like a chess board with pieces on it

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:27 AM

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I don't know why my t key want to intermittently repeat

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:27 AM

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just so you know, this is meant to be a chess game

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but I've only programmed to draw the board so far...

desert orbit Jun 22, 2021, 11:29 AM

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you can save the image in the same folder as that of your code which is used to execute

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then you won't have to write the full path

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just the image name and extension

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:29 AM

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yeah I did

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the images are in the file itself....

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:31 AM

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Ok, so you're running main() but I don't see where main() is calling drawGameState()

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Or drawBoard, for that matter

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:32 AM

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oh

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so what do I do in that case?

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"""
This class is responsible for storing all the information about the current state of a chess game. It will also be
responsible for determining the valid moves at the current state. It will also keep a move log.
"""
class GameState:
    def __init__(self):
        #board is an 8x8 2 dimensional list, each elements has 2 characters.
        #The first character represents the color of the piece, 'b' or 'w'.
        #The second character represents the type of the piece, 'K', 'Q', 'R', 'N', 'B', or 'P'.
        #The string "--" - represents an empty space with no piece.
        self.board = [
            ["bR", "bN", "bB", "bQ", "bK", "bB", "bN", "bR"],
            ["bp", "bp", "bp", "bp", "bp", "bp", "bp", "bp"],
            ["--", "--", "--", "--", "--", "--", "--", "--"],
            ["--", "--", "--", "--", "--", "--", "--", "--"],
            ["--", "--", "--", "--", "--", "--", "--", "--"],
            ["--", "--", "--", "--", "--", "--", "--", "--"],
            ["wp", "wp", "wp", "wp", "wp", "wp", "wp", "wp"],
            ["wR", "wN", "wB", "wQ", "wK", "wB", "wN", "wR"]]
        self.whiteToMove = True
        self.moveLog = []

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thats another part of the whole chess engine

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its in another seperate python file...

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:34 AM

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Line 39 sayspy clock.tick(MAX_FPS)just before that line and at the same indentation level, put apy drawGameState()

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:34 AM

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ok

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:34 AM

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Oh, you need params...

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Let me look

vague veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:35 AM

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i know is againts to rules to pay for work but i was wondering is there a server i can join to pay someone to make a script for a compress file ?

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:35 AM

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drawGameState(screen, gs)```

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:35 AM

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oh ok

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i was just bout to say that i got an error

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:35 AM

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You drawGameState is expecting those to be passed, we better pass them

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:36 AM

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ok

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again some errors... :/

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:37 AM

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Ok, let's comment out the drawPieces() line from drawGameState(), like sopy def drawGameState(screen, gs): drawBoard(screen) #draws the squares on the board #add in pieces highlighting or move suggestions (later) #drawPieces (screen, gs.board) #draws the pieces on top of the squares

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So we can just deal with getting the board drawn

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Forget players or pieces, just get the board drawing

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:38 AM

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yeah ok

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:39 AM

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You should work t hrough these things as you do them, don't move on to the next until the first is working.

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:39 AM

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pog no errors

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ok sure

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but still i get a blank screen...

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limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:41 AM

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I'm not sure what p.Color() is but maybe you needpy p.color.Color('white') and py p.color.Color('gray') although it should be giving an error for the way you're doing it, try that way

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:41 AM

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ok

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nope :/

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still a blank screen...

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:42 AM

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This a perfect project for a grid class but that's beyond what we trying to do here...

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:43 AM

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oh ok

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thank you very much for helping me

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you were done right?

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or is there anything else we can do??

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:44 AM

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I'm trying to get it running here to draw the screen or see why it's not, but you have imports that I'm not willing to install, so working around that

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:45 AM

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ahh ok

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:46 AM

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Your corrected drawBoard()....

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def drawBoard(screen):
    colors = [p.Color("white"), p.Color("gray")]
    for r in range(DIMENSION):
        for c in range(DIMENSION):
            color = colors[((r+c)%2)] 
            p.draw.rect(screen, color, p.Rect(c*SQ_SIZE, r*SQ_SIZE, SQ_SIZE, SQ_SIZE))```

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:47 AM

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mhm

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oh ok

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1 sec

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:47 AM

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p.Color is correct, I see you're importing them

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That draws the board

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:47 AM

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well

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still a blank game :/

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:48 AM

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paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:48 AM

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wait whatt??

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hold one

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what are you using?

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are you using pycharm or something/

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?

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:49 AM

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VSC

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:49 AM

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oh k

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im on visual studio

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:49 AM

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Same here

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:49 AM

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yeah

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:49 AM

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VSC = Visual Studio Code

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:49 AM

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hmmm

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:49 AM

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Let me share the complete file I have here...

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:49 AM

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limber veldt VSC = Visual Studio Code

oh ok

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:49 AM

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limber veldt Let me share the complete file I have here...

yes please

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:50 AM

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!paste

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limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:50 AM

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

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:50 AM

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ok

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yayy

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limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:51 AM

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So maybe you can work from that

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:51 AM

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mhmm

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:51 AM

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I want you to notice what I changed in that drawBaord() function though

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:51 AM

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ok

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i will see that

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:51 AM

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# your code....
colors = [p.Color("white"), p.Color("gray")]
    for r in range(DIMENSION):
        for c in range(DIMENSION):
            colors = [((r+c)%2)] 
            p.draw.rect(screen, color, p.Rect(c*SQ_SIZE, r*SQ_SIZE, SQ_SIZE, SQ_SIZE))

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:52 AM

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limber veldt ```py # your code.... colors = [p.Color("white"), p.Color("gray")] for r in ...

ok

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:52 AM

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You're assigning colors twice

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:52 AM

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yeah

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so the first one for white and second one for gray

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?

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:52 AM

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When what you really need ispy color = colors[((r+c)%2)] to assign colors to color and use color in the draw.rectt()

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Damn t key

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:53 AM

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ok

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:53 AM

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limber veldt Damn t key

loll

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:53 AM

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I like that way of oscillating the variable though

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:53 AM

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ty

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OKay

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:54 AM

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(r+c)%2

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:54 AM

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tysm for helping (:

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ill figure out how to place the pieces now.

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:54 AM

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No problem, onward to getting those pieces drawn, good luck

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 11:54 AM

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thanks

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 11:58 AM

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Currently trying to squash my own bugs, this lil human should be falling after it lost the lander that was carrying it

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That's the most fun of making your own game, you can spawn as many or as few of anything and be invincible, lol

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Wanna test landers and humans capturing/releasing/falling, whatever interactions, just spawn hundreds of them

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If there's a bug, it'll show

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Like that one

dawn quiver Jun 22, 2021, 12:25 PM

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does anyone know about ursina?

dawn quiver Jun 22, 2021, 1:18 PM

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paper sandal

nice

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 3:25 PM

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Landers can shoot when hovering over human for a second, still need to do more random shooting but the barrage is working

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I give the bullets a random target on a 120x120 pixel area around the player

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No need to shoot straight at the player, just toward

dense creek Jun 22, 2021, 4:54 PM

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limber veldt I give the bullets a random target on a 120x120 pixel area around the player

just a comment: if your game window is resizable, pixel area is inconsistent as the pixel area needs to be resized too.

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 4:55 PM

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Doesn't matter, if everything scales, it all scales but no, it's not resizable

dense creek Jun 22, 2021, 4:55 PM

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limber veldt Doesn't matter, if everything scales, it all scales but no, it's not resizable

not resizable then 👍

dense idol Jun 22, 2021, 4:56 PM

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hi guys just a noob question here, can you make kind of complex 2d games such as old rpgs in python or can u not

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 4:57 PM

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I had some extra particles being thrown into the particle group from my bullets and their particle effects, removed those and it def made a difference in performance

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 4:57 PM

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dense idol hi guys just a noob question here, can you make kind of complex 2d games such as...

Most definitely

dense idol Jun 22, 2021, 4:57 PM

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oh thats great

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i really want to make some games i have lots of ideas

dense creek Jun 22, 2021, 4:58 PM

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dense idol hi guys just a noob question here, can you make kind of complex 2d games such as...

for a complex one, you might want to use a framework with hardware rendering

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 4:58 PM

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The performance of python starts to suffer heading into 3d games but for 2d, even with lots of things, python handles it fine

dense creek Jun 22, 2021, 4:58 PM

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such as arcade

dense idol Jun 22, 2021, 4:59 PM

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dense creek for a complex one, you might want to use a framework with hardware rendering

i dont really know what that means yet but thank you very helpful

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i just started a week ago u see

dense creek Jun 22, 2021, 4:59 PM

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dense idol i dont really know what that means yet but thank you very helpful

basically arcade or pyglet

dense idol Jun 22, 2021, 4:59 PM

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oh ok

dense creek Jun 22, 2021, 5:00 PM

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dense idol i just started a week ago u see

oh then do pygame

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 5:00 PM

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That sure is appealing, the hardware rendering in Arcade

dense creek Jun 22, 2021, 5:00 PM

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after some experience, you might want to move to arcade

dense idol Jun 22, 2021, 5:00 PM

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dense creek oh then do pygame

i have a book called usborne coding for beginners and that eventually tells you how to make simple games

dense creek Jun 22, 2021, 5:01 PM

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in pygame?

dense idol Jun 22, 2021, 5:02 PM

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no

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it doesnt say anything about that

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i have watched videos about pygame though

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this may be a stupid question but are 2d games such as hollow knight and undertale doable on python

dense creek Jun 22, 2021, 5:04 PM

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dense idol this may be a stupid question but are 2d games such as hollow knight and underta...

of course they are

dense idol Jun 22, 2021, 5:04 PM

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really thats cool, i was told python isnt ment for games

dense creek Jun 22, 2021, 5:04 PM

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dense idol really thats cool, i was told python isnt ment for games

it actually isnt

dense idol Jun 22, 2021, 5:04 PM

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c++ is what i was told is

dense creek Jun 22, 2021, 5:05 PM

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dense idol c++ is what i was told is

yep. but with c / c++ bindings with python, you will be able to do just fine

dense idol Jun 22, 2021, 5:05 PM

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oh nice

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how did you learn to code

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you seem like a very knowledgeable person

dense creek Jun 22, 2021, 5:06 PM

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dense idol how did you learn to code

i taught myself (this is getting off topic)

dense idol Jun 22, 2021, 5:06 PM

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oh sorry

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thanks for the answers

dense creek Jun 22, 2021, 5:07 PM

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catthumbsup

cold crow Jun 22, 2021, 5:22 PM

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can somebody look at my game?

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paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 5:29 PM

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hai

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I need help...

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again

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.

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I'm making a chess engine

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and right now

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Im drawing a chess board and the pieces that go on the chess board

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however

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I've been trying for like 3 hours

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but I still couldn't fiigure out how to get the pieces onto the board..

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https://paste.pythondiscord.com/raw/hecaduhero

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this is my script

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scroll down to line 69

paper sandal Jun 22, 2021, 6:30 PM

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pog i got it

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I dont need help anymore yay

limber veldt Jun 22, 2021, 6:34 PM

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Lovely

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e2

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to e4

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So....I made an attribute called self.captor in my human class. My enemy landers search and find the humans. In the lander code, I get a reference to the human from the sprite/group collision. But the human doesn't get a reference to the specific lander that grabbed him

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And he needs one. So in the lander code, since I have a reference to the human, I can assign an attribute from the lander

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The reference of the captured human is called self.human in the lander. So I just say self.human.captor = self

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But there must be a better way

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The humans can be shot and killed by the player and if that happens, the lander is going to need to know about it so during the human kill() method, it can tell the lander to go back to attacking or searching

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Basically to stop mutating

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Wait just a minute

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Upon further inspection of the game, when the human is killed, they continue to mutate anyway

fresh cave Jun 22, 2021, 7:05 PM

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if __name__ == "__main__":
    main_pygame = pygame_instance((200,200),"HP")
    main_pygame.inst()
    screen = sys.modules['__main__'].main_pygame.screen
    print(type(sys.modules))```
Would it be bad practice to access screen like this from other modules? Or just in general python usage?

grim abyss Jun 23, 2021, 1:30 AM

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finally have a File menu to open wadfiles...

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a 'progress' bar is surprisingly hard to implement. I guess you have to spawn it in a new thread and poll something. I don't even know. Gave up on it after about 45mins.... I'll get it working eventually....

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 1:55 AM

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Splashscreen done except for copyright notice

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Almost exactly the same as the game it copies

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 1:59 AM

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grim abyss finally have a File menu to open wadfiles...

And those maps are lovely, I remember making them myself, big ones too. I made a pyramid level with multiple 'floors' and shit, was pretty good

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Doom couldn't really do 3d

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So rooms or floors atop one another weren't really possible

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But you could fake it with clever switching player locations

grim abyss Jun 23, 2021, 2:03 AM

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yeah, really the only reason I'm working on this application is because I've been messing with it, literally since I started programming with Python. It's time to finish it now and move on to something else. There's alot of work left though. I want to add in some kind of file browser from the ftp.idgames site and remotely display wads from the zipfiles on the ftp site...

grim abyss Jun 23, 2021, 2:06 AM

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limber veldt Splashscreen done except for copyright notice

So what are you, implementing Defender in Python?

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from the ASM source?

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 2:15 AM

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Yes, but not really from source. The source I posted is useless to me since it's incomplete

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From visual reference

grim abyss Jun 23, 2021, 2:21 AM

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ahhh cool

dawn quiver Jun 23, 2021, 3:14 AM

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limber veldt Splashscreen done except for copyright notice

woahh

winter scarab Jun 23, 2021, 3:22 AM

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Hello everyone, I have a super basic question. I was trained in matlab for my degree as my first/most frequent code that I have used. I am following a tutorial on how to create your own version of Space Invaders and want to use some numpy arrays to keep track of vertical and horizontal movement. But the code is not working. Should I abandon my use of arrays or is there a way to put said arrays in the following function?

enemy_pos = np.array([0, 0])

%%Function I am calling to put in enemy position
def enemy(pos):
    screen.blit(enemyImg, enemy_pos)

%%Game loop
While (condition that i know works)
      %%Controls code
      %%Movement code
      enemy([enemy_pos])

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I started on Sunday with pygame

proper peak Jun 23, 2021, 4:19 AM

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winter scarab Hello everyone, I have a super basic question. I was trained in matlab for my de...

At worst, you can always convert a numpy array to a normal list (.tolist) if some function doesn't like dealing with one.

winter scarab Jun 23, 2021, 4:42 AM

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proper peak At worst, you can always convert a numpy array to a normal list (`.tolist`) if s...

Thank you for replying, I will look into how to work with tables

supple eagle Jun 23, 2021, 5:06 AM

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grim abyss a 'progress' bar is surprisingly hard to implement. I guess you have to spawn it...

There's a module for it, or you need only pygame?

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!pypi progress

frank fieldBOT Jun 23, 2021, 5:07 AM

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progress v1.5

Easy to use progress bars

supple eagle Jun 23, 2021, 5:09 AM

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!pypi better-progress

frank fieldBOT Jun 23, 2021, 5:09 AM

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better-progress v1.0.4

Customize and create a progress bar string.

teal ember Jun 23, 2021, 5:24 AM

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supple eagle !pypi progress

pretty sure they mean graphical progress bars in tk or whatever framework they are using :^)

pliant elbow Jun 23, 2021, 7:38 AM

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I am new at game development

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will you all see something?

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please

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https://github.com/KavyanshKhaitan2/Transfer

GitHub

KavyanshKhaitan2/Transfer

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dawn quiver Jun 23, 2021, 8:00 AM

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uhh how do i make my py file into an exe, dmg and debian

pliant elbow Jun 23, 2021, 8:30 AM

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using auto-py-to-exe?

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you have to do some simple steps:

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Execute the Following commands in the terminal:```
pip install auto-py-to-exe
auto-py-to-exe

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then just select the options you want

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and It will do the trick

dawn quiver Jun 23, 2021, 8:34 AM

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thx mate

pliant elbow Jun 23, 2021, 8:34 AM

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can u please test my game?

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(its just a menu right now)

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pliant elbow Jun 23, 2021, 8:36 AM

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can you please check out my game https://github.com/KavyanshKhaitan2/Transfer ?

GitHub

KavyanshKhaitan2/Transfer

Contribute to KavyanshKhaitan2/Transfer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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please run the main.py file if you do want to

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the loading.py file is also nessecary

dawn quiver Jun 23, 2021, 8:37 AM

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hmm i will try it out after i upload my game

dawn quiver Jun 23, 2021, 1:00 PM

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what is prople,

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m

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m

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@dawn quiver

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 1:19 PM

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You forgot =

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Just before your highlighted selection, the letter p in pygame, put =

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self.screen has to equal something, it's an assignment, you need the = for that

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Question: If you have and are using only one instance of a class, is it more appropriate to use class variables for some data than instance variables?

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Or even global variables, for that matter

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They're constants

frozen knoll Jun 23, 2021, 2:14 PM

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If anyone is new, I have example code for basic Pygame here: http://programarcadegames.com/index.php?chapter=example_code

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...and Arcade here:
https://arcade.academy/examples/index.html

grim abyss Jun 23, 2021, 2:24 PM

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frozen knoll ...and Arcade here: https://arcade.academy/examples/index.html

https://arcade.academy/examples/radar_sweep.html#radar-sweep is interesting... wish I understood the math required to implement it though...

sick sierra Jun 23, 2021, 3:35 PM

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Yandere Simulator would prolly run better in Python, and if it had good programming like dear god

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:44 PM

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Recently did something similar in pygame with sweeping clock hands

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https://pasteall.org/TBPL

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:48 PM

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hi

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i need help again

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:48 PM

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Chess right?

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I don't

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:48 PM

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mhm

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:48 PM

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Well, I do

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:48 PM

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sry

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typo

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:48 PM

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But well beyond the scope of the help I can get here : )

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:48 PM

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ok

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well

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im tryna get pieces to move

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ive done the prgraamming

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but i cant figure out how to fix some of the errors :/

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@limber veldt

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:51 PM

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What do you mean when you say move?

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:51 PM

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no

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when i drag and drop the piece

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:51 PM

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Disappear from one place and reappear in another or actually animate them sliding on the board?

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:51 PM

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sliding them

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just dragging them and dropping them

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:52 PM

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Right

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:52 PM

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gimme a sec

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ive made changes to the chess engine file

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:52 PM

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Get a reference to the image or surface that you want to move and find how to drag it around the screen

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:53 PM

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wait whats that link for me to upload the script?

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:53 PM

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That's step one

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No, just a basic clock code I made

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:53 PM

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oh k

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so whats the next step?

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:54 PM

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Constraining the pieces to grid squares on the board

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:54 PM

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right

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:55 PM

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I can think of how I would do it but it's totally different than how you're doing any of it

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:55 PM

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oh k...

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would you mind seeing the changes i made?

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:55 PM

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My board would be a grid of separate objects with attributes like x, y and image

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:56 PM

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limber veldt My board would be a grid of separate objects with attributes like x, y and image

Oh ok

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:57 PM

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When you click on one of the objects with an image, that image follows as you drag then, when you drop, the image changes location from old to new

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:57 PM

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yeah thats why I did this:
if len(playerClicks) == 2:
move = ChessEngine.Move(playerClicks[0], playerClicks[1], gs.board)
print(move.getChessNotation())
gs.makeMove(move)
sqSelected = ()
playerClicks = []

limber veldt Jun 23, 2021, 4:58 PM

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That keeps the images perfectly centered in the square, too

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Ask questions about games or share what you've learned or whatever

paper sandal Jun 23, 2021, 4:59 PM

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this is a coding server

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...

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you can go to #❓｜how-to-get-help

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thhere are several coding languages..

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do you know any?

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if not, you might want to learn some basics...

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this server is specifically for the python coding language..

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hmmmn

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you can search some tuttorials on youtube...

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im not the right person to ask here

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but

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like I said before

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you should consider going to the #❓｜how-to-get-help channel

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and from there some other members will be able to help you (:

frozen knoll Jun 23, 2021, 5:32 PM

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@dawn quiver You might want to look at https://learn.arcade.academy if you are just getting started.

proven fractal Jun 23, 2021, 5:33 PM

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Hi, me and my friends want to create a monopoly game but we hesitate between python and java

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What do you think is the best language for this?

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We also think of developing the game with new features like income from stock exchange in game

solid meteor Jun 23, 2021, 7:15 PM

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proven fractal Hi, me and my friends want to create a monopoly game but we hesitate between pyt...

I would say that Java is not a good language for this. At least when I made a game, there's a lot of boilerplate code.

proven fractal Jun 23, 2021, 7:29 PM

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solid meteor I would say that Java is not a good language for this. At least when I made a ga...

Thanks

wicked lintel Jun 23, 2021, 8:06 PM

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i have a question about pygame:
is there a way to use polygons for collision detection instead of rectangles?
because i'm coding a car game, and i want the car to be slower when touching grass, but when going diagonally the rect is giant and always touching grass, which is why i wuold like to use 2 polygons at the cars edge instead of one giant rectangle. is this possible to do?

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code for collision detection:

    def update_drag(self, screen):
        pxa = pygame.PixelArray(screen)
        tl = self.rect.topleft
        pxa = pxa[tl[0]:tl[0]+self.rect.w, tl[1]:tl[1]+self.rect.h]
        # t0 = time.time()
        # if (np.any(np.isin(pxa, 25885))):
        #     self.roll_resistance = self.grass_roll_resistance
        # else:
        #     self.roll_resistance = self.street_roll_resistance
        # print("time np = " + str(time.time() - t0))
        
        #this is acutally faster then using numpy for some reason
        if (25885 in pxa):
            self.roll_resistance = self.grass_roll_resistance
        else:
            self.roll_resistance = self.street_roll_resistance

dawn quiver Jun 23, 2021, 9:42 PM

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can someone help me with making a menu in pygame? I made it so when you click a button it does a function where it makes the screen red. But it only makes it red for a split second...

frozen knoll Jun 23, 2021, 9:47 PM

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@wicked lintel You can use the "shapely" library to manage polygon collisions. It includes functions for that. It is pretty quick too. (If you aren't married to Pygame, the Arcade library automatically makes polygons off a sprite for more accurate collisions without the effort Pygame requires.)

wicked lintel Jun 23, 2021, 9:52 PM

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I'm completely new to making games using python. In the past, i used java and in it none, then greenfoot, then a self written one.
so i'm open to new things
maybe i'll take a look at the arcade libary

frozen knoll Jun 23, 2021, 9:53 PM

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https://arcade.academy if you are interested. Best of luck!

wicked lintel Jun 23, 2021, 9:54 PM

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thanks :3

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the linux installation stage is bugged...

south slate Jun 23, 2021, 10:01 PM

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I have a question about a bit of code that I got from https://pygame.readthedocs.io/en/latest/2_draw/draw.html#draw-a-pologyon-line-with-the-mouse which I'm using to learn the basics of pygame. What does True do in line 52 of the code. If it is removed, I get a TypeError: points argument must be a sequence of number pairs.

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Oops maybe question is unclear because there is no question mark: What does True do in line 52 of the code?

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an example of the program when it is running

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Thanks in advance for anyone willing to give me a hand.

frozen knoll Jun 23, 2021, 10:06 PM

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Commentator, What's bugged on it? Want to make sure it gets fixed.

pine marlin Jun 23, 2021, 11:36 PM

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Im making a flappy bird game in pygame having some issues where if the user escapes to the menu screen then clicks to play, the pipes do not appear as expected and creates an impossible game. Any ideas how i can resolve this issue, or what might be causing it?

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pine marlin Jun 23, 2021, 11:38 PM

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menu.py
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ubelihikep.apache

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main.py
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/yuqisiquji.properties

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if you want the full code with sprites and stuff to test it yourself
https://github.com/Asianguy123/Flappy-Bird

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pine marlin Jun 24, 2021, 12:07 AM

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any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance

limber veldt Jun 24, 2021, 12:48 AM

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65 sprite objects in my game, many of them having multiple instances during game play O.o

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Some of them tiny, like the background stars, they're only a couple of pixels, or the ground cells which are nine pixels, but there are thousands of them

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 3:03 AM

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pine marlin Im making a flappy bird game in pygame having some issues where if the user esca...

well your randomizing the game

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obviously there will be impossible ones to solve

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what you need to do is randomize with limits

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make the values your randomizing based on the current situation of the player

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and makes sure its possible to go there

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for example

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if player is in pos (100, 100)

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then make sure that the random value at which the gap is, is somewhere between random(x-some value, y-some value)

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that way it will always be possible to solve

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also keep a uniform distance between each of those poles

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 4:18 AM

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can anyone give me some games project I can try to do by my own as a python beginner?

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 4:55 AM

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glossy quarry can anyone give me some games project I can try to do by my own as a python begi...

monopoly

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 4:57 AM

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dawn quiver monopoly

ehhh, idk much about monopoly but I guess I'll try, thx

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 4:58 AM

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glossy quarry ehhh, idk much about monopoly but I guess I'll try, thx

chess

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 4:58 AM

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dawn quiver chess

eh, that can work

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:04 AM

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glossy quarry eh, that can work

can u send me the game so i can try

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:04 AM

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dawn quiver can u send me the game so i can try

sure, but I'm not gonna start yet tho, I'm trying to learn pygame fully

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:20 AM

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glossy quarry sure, but I'm not gonna start yet tho, I'm trying to learn pygame fully

pygame is good

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:21 AM

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I see

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:22 AM

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altho

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nvm

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:33 AM

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dawn quiver altho

just wanna ask, can I use tkinter to actually make games?

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:33 AM

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No

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You can

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but its not going to go long term

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and it gets slow

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:34 AM

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I see

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:34 AM

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pygame is okay

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:34 AM

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so in order for the game to run smoothly

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:34 AM

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tkinter is good for UI

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:34 AM

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I should just use pygame?

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:34 AM

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dawn quiver tkinter is good for UI

of apps

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:34 AM

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oh ok

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:34 AM

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glossy quarry so in order for the game to run smoothly

well for that, and its more supported so you will get more help

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:34 AM

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I see, thx for the info

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:34 AM

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👍

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because pygame was made with the SDL library in C

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so its faster

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:35 AM

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ohh

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:35 AM

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:>

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tkinter is good tho

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dont let anyone tell you that pyQt5 is just way better and you cant do shit with tkinter

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search up thonny

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it was made with tkinter

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pyQt5 is good

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im not saying its bad

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but tkinter is also very powerful

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for making apps

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:36 AM

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oh alright

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:36 AM

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desktop apps

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:36 AM

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I only learnt how to use tkinter for apps so

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:36 AM

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dawn quiver a perfect moving background 😍

@glossy quarry

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:36 AM

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but probably will try those you mentioned in the future

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:37 AM

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dawn quiver <@!432930331860008980>

thats what im working on with pygame

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ive made a lot of games with it

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anyways

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im more into system design, ML and all

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:37 AM

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cool

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:37 AM

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so im doing that

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:37 AM

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I see

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:37 AM

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dawn quiver im more into system design, ML and all

not UI design 🙄

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:38 AM

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eh

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:38 AM

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in system design

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:38 AM

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dawn quiver a perfect moving background 😍

all those ''self'' are from a class right?

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:39 AM

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You need to draw blocks and explain how different services interact with each other, for example, the app, location, payment service ect

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:39 AM

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glossy quarry all those ''self'' are from a class right?

yeah

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:39 AM

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oh I see

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 8:39 AM

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Using OOP is a good way to both minimize and organise your code

glossy quarry Jun 24, 2021, 8:39 AM

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ok got it

limber veldt Jun 24, 2021, 10:16 AM

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Those long lists of datas, I moved them to a separate file and import them. Nice having all that out of my way in the main file

limber veldt Jun 24, 2021, 10:48 AM

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Watching a video of a streamer coding pygame and he's complaining that the pygame docs suck...they kinda do. Like I understand that docs are docs, not tutorials, but is there anywhere that actually teaches how to do those things besides youtubers who could be right or wrong about what they're showing?

heady pine Jun 24, 2021, 11:45 AM

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Hi, someone has been using Ursina? I want to detect when an entity with a MeshCollider collides, ive been searching for hours but there is no tutorial about it on the internet

buoyant sequoia Jun 24, 2021, 2:15 PM

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Hi, with the turtle module, how would you go about adding a pause function, which method or function would you use?

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 2:18 PM

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i mean

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you just make

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the fps as 0

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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@buoyant sequoia

teal ember Jun 24, 2021, 2:18 PM

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how would you listen for key events then?

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unless you do that in another thread

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 2:19 PM

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yeah

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threading

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actually

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multiprocessing is faster

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its best to maximize speed

teal ember Jun 24, 2021, 2:20 PM

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but just making a boolean to decide if you are paused or not is better imo, but i dont know how turtle works and i have never used it so i dont know how would that go for it

dawn quiver Jun 24, 2021, 2:20 PM

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yep technically flags are the best

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@teal ember is right

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

buoyant sequoia Jun 24, 2021, 2:21 PM

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@dawn quiver@teal ember ok thank you will try that thank you 🙂

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I will

teal ember Jun 24, 2021, 2:21 PM

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ferristhumbsup

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just make a variable which stores True if you want stuff to be paused or False if not, if the variable is False draw your usual stuff, and if its True draw the pause screen

buoyant sequoia Jun 24, 2021, 2:45 PM

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thx for help

limber veldt Jun 24, 2021, 3:13 PM

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And toggle your variable between True/False with the key you want to use for pause, like if variable is named 'paused', just do paused = not paused