game-development

[sand forge]

so

it will be longer

but

if they're at a point in the code, i want them to be able to come back without restarting

@exotic laurel

[exotic laurel]

sorry i gotta go now!

[sand forge]

kk

[river sphinx]

hi, can someone help me please? What is meant by callable? (using ursina engine)

[tranquil girder]

a function is callable for example

an instance of a class like you're using here is not

[river sphinx]

but i cant use class there... then what to do?

[tranquil girder]

whats is block? and what are you trying to do?

[river sphinx]

I just called him block its slime cube entity

I try to do when you pressed k it will disappear

[tranquil girder]

so you want to do block.visible = False?

[river sphinx]

yes

I tried it

It did not work because there is no class

[tranquil girder]

what does "there is no class" mean?

block.visible = False is how you should do it

[tranquil girder]

no problem there

[river sphinx]

oh its working now thx

And I have another problem, I want that when you press k it will lower the heart slime and it does not lower why?

[tranquil girder]

-=

also, held_keys is for checking if you're holding a key, not if you pressed it
that's what the input function is for

[river sphinx]

oh ok thx

[river sphinx]

I tried it already, I just want that if the amount of slime hearts = 3 then every time i press k it will remove 1 heart

[river sphinx]

it stay 2

slime_health = 3

if held_keys['k']:

slime_health -= 1

first click: 2
Second click: 2
Third click: 2
... 2```

@tranquil girder

[dawn quiver]

in ursina how to add light sources pls telll anyone

@dawn quiver

[river sphinx]

help me (ursina)

[tranquil girder]

use def input(key) instead of update

also, you're setting the health to 3 every time the function gets called, so it will never go below 2

[river sphinx]

Then what to change

[tranquil girder]

the structure

[river sphinx]

what do you mean?

[tranquil girder]

try rewriting it to make sure you get the logic correct

[dawn quiver]

hi i know im in the wrong chat asking for help but the available help channel said cool down and i don't know how to delete the help channel i was using (because that's what it said to do)

[river sphinx]

ok

[tranquil girder]

you should set the hp to 3 earlier,
when you create the slime for example

[river sphinx]

oh right thx i will try

[woeful crag]

i want to have a line between the projectile (its a circle) and my mouse

one end of the line is at the ball

but the other end doesn't follow my mouse

its stuck at a random point

[dawn quiver]

pls tell how can i generate under this pls anyone

@hushed flax

hello ?

anyone

[teal ember]

show code for your Projectile class

[woeful crag]

@teal ember

what graphics library are u using to render @dawn quiver

that seems like a pretty good minecraft clone

[river sphinx]

Show the code

[woeful crag]

@dawn quiver ^^

[main pecan]

i am working on a text base game and i was wondering if its possible to delete the text in the shell before it prints the next part

because the longer it goes on the messier the shell looks

[dawn quiver]

Ok 5 mins I'm showing

i even need optimization cause i want to make the world 10000 x 10000 or infinite

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[dawn quiver]

from random import randint
from ursina import *
from ursina.prefabs.first_person_controller import FirstPersonController
from perlin_noise import PerlinNoise

app = Ursina()
grass_texture = load_texture('Minecraft-in-Python-main/assets/grass_block.png')
stone_texture = load_texture('Minecraft-in-Python-main/assets/stone_block.png')
brick_texture = load_texture('Minecraft-in-Python-main/assets/brick_block.png')
dirt_texture = load_texture('Minecraft-in-Python-main/assets/dirt_block.png')
sky_texture = load_texture('Minecraft-in-Python-main/assets/skybox.png')
arm_texture = load_texture('Minecraft-in-Python-main/assets/arm_texture.png')
block_pick = 1
noise = PerlinNoise(octaves=1, seed=randint(1,18446744073709551616))
xpix, ypix = 100, 100
pic = [[noise([i/xpix, j/ypix]) for j in range(xpix)] for i in range(ypix)]

window.fps_counter.enabled = True
window.exit_button.visible = False
window.fullscreen = True

def update():
global block_pick
if held_keys['left mouse'] or held_keys['right mouse']:
hand.active()
else:
hand.passive()
if held_keys['1']: block_pick = 1
if held_keys['2']: block_pick = 2
if held_keys['3']: block_pick = 3
if held_keys['4']: block_pick = 4

class Voxel(Button):
def init(self,position=(0,0,1),texture=grass_texture):
super().init(
parent=scene,
position=position,
model='assets/block',
origin_y=0.5,
texture=texture,
color=color.color(0 ,0 ,random.uniform(0.9 ,1)),
scale=0.5,
)

def input(self, key):
    if self.hovered:
        if key == 'left mouse down':
            if block_pick == 1:
                voxel = Voxel(position=self.position + mouse.normal, texture=grass_texture)
            if block_pick == 2:

voxel = Voxel(position=self.position + mouse.normal, texture=stone_texture)
if block_pick == 3:
voxel = Voxel(position=self.position + mouse.normal, texture=brick_texture)
if block_pick == 4:
voxel = Voxel(position=self.position + mouse.normal, texture=dirt_texture)

        if key == 'right mouse down':
            destroy(self)

class Hand(Entity):
def init(self):
super().init(
parent=camera.ui,
model='arm.obj',
texture=arm_texture,
scale=0.2,
rotation=Vec3(150 ,-10 ,0),
position=Vec2(0.7,-0.6),
)

def active(self):
    self.position = Vec2(0.6, -0.5)

def passive(self):
    self.position = Vec2(0.7, -0.6)

for z in range(20):
for x in range(20):
y = noise([x/8,z/8])
y =math.floor(y * 7.5)
voxel = Voxel(position=(x, y, z))
for z in range(20):
for x in range(20):
y = noise([x / 8, z / 8])
y = math.floor(y * 7.5)
voxel = Voxel(texture=dirt_texture ,position=(x ,(-1) + y ,z))

player = FirstPersonController()
Sky(texture = sky_texture,shader = False)
hand = Hand()
pivot = Entity()
PointLight(parent = camera, color = color.white, position = (0, 10, -1.5))
AmbientLight(color = color.rgba(100, 100, 100, 0.1))
app.run()

dumb question but how does one make an actual game in python

Like where do I start

For example graphics

[round obsidian]

@dawn quiver yo'd use a library designed for it, such as Pygame or Arcade

the library handles windowing, graphics, keyboard or controller input, sound, etc.

[teal ember]

so you need to update the mouse position every frame, right now you set the mouse position at the start only, so add this in your draw_line function, self.line[1] = pygame.mouse.get_pos()

[silver jacinth]

wow this is weird

[fast talon]

many people say that Python isn't fast enough, I dont understand what that means

to make AAA games of course

[fluid wigeon]

well, games often update at 60 fps meaning that the code needs to finish be able to update the game state 60 times every second and for very complex games like 3d shooters this is very computationally expensive and python is one of the slower languages which is why the very low-level languages like C++ is used

[fast talon]

oh, thanks a lot 🙂

[daring meadow]

Hey, I couldn't use the midbottom function in my program .... Using it still places my rect object on the bottom left

Can someone plz help me out...

[exotic laurel]

Does K_LCTRL / K_RCTRL work? If not how about K_LSUPER and K_RSUPER they are supposed to be window keys but worth a try, pygame doesnt seem to have an exact binding to mac specific command

Ohh, meta keys

That's good!

[exotic laurel]

have you tried printing the coords out and matching them? Also check if you're moving them elsewhere

[marsh seal]

show code

[dawn quiver]

its fine i figured it out

how to make a mesh

[dawn quiver]

?

?

[abstract egret]

dawn, whats performance like?

[bleak reef]

does anyone know a way to use python to make a board?

like a list

[sour turtle]

like a chess board "list"?

[daring meadow]

How can I print the co-ordinates?

[dawn quiver]

Can someone explain to me when I should be using sprite.Group and sprite.GroupSingle?

[dawn quiver]

It is PyGame? https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/sprite.html

[dawn quiver]

Yes it is

So if we want to control a single sprite we use sprite.Group

And if we want to control many of them we use sprite.GroupSingle?

[dawn quiver]

Read the link

It is obviously you did not.

And perhabs English is not your first language as well.

[dawn quiver]

What Python libraries do I need to develop a 3D game?

[dawn quiver]

i figured out how to generate under it if gives 40 frame 20 x 6 x 20 terrain no mesh

[dawn quiver]

ursina

[abstract egret]

dawn, no mesh, so you're really drawing al those blocks completly?

[dawn quiver]

yes

ig

how do i put a messsshhhhhhhhh

thats my doubt

i want infinite generation

plz help

[abstract egret]

Well as far as I know game development, for infinite generation you should use perlin noise, just generate the map around the player based on his coordinates and the perlin noise map

The mesh probably heavily depends on the lib you're using, but I have no game development experience in Python, so on that end can't really help you further

[round obsidian]

I just updated my game (made entirely in Python) on itch.io for the first time in a LONG time. https://xtaloid.itch.io/xtaloid

[potent ice]

Smooth. What libraries are using for this game? Just curious. Not that it matters 😄

ah. It's pyglet. I snooped in files

[round obsidian]

Pyglet, and a little bit of C by way of Cython @potent ice

[potent ice]

ah I thought I saw some of that, but wasn't sure if that was part of the packaging

[round obsidian]

yup, that was my core lib

[lime iron]

you need a 3 d engine like blender or unreal

[dawn quiver]

ok

[tame patio]

any website for free images

[foggy python]

Over 5,000 blades of shaded and interactive grass running at over 60fps in Pygame.

[frank field]

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[dawn quiver]

i might start learning pygame 2

what version of pygame 2 do i need?

[upper harbor]

@manic zinc achha baba what bout gaming

[manic zinc]

i think you need 3.8

[manic zinc]

i made minecraft

[upper harbor]

😭

[hollow heron]

Appreciate if someone could help

[dawn quiver]

haha the creativity in modern age of mobile phones

Use pastebin.com or similar websites instead

[scenic harbor]

you might be mixing tabs and spaces? also why dont you use f strings instead of the .format thing

[sacred vault]

Pygame, how do i check if a mouse click is inside a circle?

i found this "distance formula" on SO but idk why or how it works and wanted to check if there's an easier way?

    pygame.display.update(); scr.fill((200, 200, 255))
    pygame.draw.circle(scr, (0, 0, 0), (400, 300), 100)

    x = pygame.mouse.get_pos()[0]
    y = pygame.mouse.get_pos()[1]

    sqx = (x - 400)**2
    sqy = (y - 300)**2

    if math.sqrt(sqx + sqy) < 100:
        print 'inside'

[cobalt prawn]

uwu cool

where do I start learning pygame?

[sacred vault]

https://www.pygame.org/wiki/GettingStarted

[cobalt prawn]

Gracias

[lunar venture]

Pythagorean theorem

[sacred vault]

ooooo

but why are x and y being minused by 400 & 300?

[lunar venture]

btw you can do just

x, y = pygame.mouse.get_pos()

if it returns a tuple of length 2

[sacred vault]

ah ok

[lunar venture]

what's the third argument here for

[sacred vault]

the **2?

[lunar venture]

in pygame.draw.circle(scr, (0, 0, 0), (400, 300), 100)

[sacred vault]

oh shit

yeah thanks

ty

[dawn quiver]

where do i download pygame from, https://www.pygame.org/download.shtml or the github

[round obsidian]

@dawn quiver pip install pygame

[dawn quiver]

in python right

cuz it no worky in python

i am very confused

[tranquil girder]

no, in cmd, not python

[fossil dagger]

i dont know but my frined told me that you cant have spaces and indents only one? i have no idea sorry if it doesnt help u can also highlight to see spaces

[dawn quiver]

Watt

[fading whale]

@distant lotus That's off-topic, and not something you should be asking for here.

[round obsidian]

New build of my game (written in Python, natch)
https://xtaloid.itch.io/xtaloid/devlog/282868/new-build-wcolorblindness-options

[dawn quiver]

while (hitwall != True & distance2Wall < main.maxDepth):
-----------------------
if (testX < 0.0 | testX >= float(main.mapW) | testY < 0.0 | testY >= float(main.mapH)):

These 2 lines pop up the following error:
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |: 'float' and 'float'

I am not too sure what's going on here, not used to working with Python.

[crimson knoll]

insane

[lunar venture]

if 0 > testX >= float(main.mapW) or 0 > testY >= float(main.mapH):

I recommend you learn basic boolean operators in Python again.

[dawn quiver]

that is a great idea. what is wrong with me

[lunar venture]

I can only assume your while expression should have been:

while not hitwall and distance2Wall < main.maxDepth:

[dawn quiver]

yep, yep

[lean cosmos]

Hey guys i need help this game im making its pretty much bo1 zombies but top down pixel art form i got zombie to work but i need to add a.i to them like to avoid walls and stuff and i was wondering what would be the best way to come at this

[dawn quiver]

im making my first clicker game

[dawn quiver]

how about a*? http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/GameProgramming/AStarComparison.html

i don'tknow how well it would work as you have quite a few entities path finding at once, and i really am not sure if a* is fast enough

[lean cosmos]

ya i was thinking about doign this but with how many entities there will be i didnt think that would be the was way

[dawn quiver]

Well bo solved it somehow
so there must be an algorithm you can implement
also you could try it, your game does not seem very graphically intensive so maybe it'll work

[lean cosmos]

thats true ive still got alot to do

[dawn quiver]

yeah, you could try using it as a temporary solution while you work on whatever else you need to add

update #1, all button layouts and keybinds are done

also added an money counter, but currently it's just $0

[dawn quiver]

how to make something infinite, like prestiges in an game 😓

every prestige gives one score_prestige and an 1.2x money multiplier

[dawn quiver]

try implementing something like this perhaps

prestige_value = 1
money = 0
# whenever player prestiges or w/e the trigger isincrement presitges
# let's say you kill an enemy so reward is money rite
money += (1+0.2*presitge_value) * enemy value 

for w/e reason nothing seems to be drawn

i cheked using this to try triggering the damn thing to draw

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((screenW, screenH))
pygame.draw.line(screen, (100, 0, 0), (100, 0), (100, 10), 20)

nada.

ty

[dawn quiver]

oookay

that's solved.

[round pawn]

Python programmers when sees Anaconda programmers :

[spark cargo]

Anyone can help me ? @round pawn @dawn quiver @dawn quiver

[round pawn]

im not really a good python programmer

still intermediate level

[spark cargo]

No I am beggener

Can you suggest me from where and which software and window I need to install for coading?@round pawn

[round obsidian]

!resources @spark cargo

[frank field]

Resources

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https://pythondiscord.com/pages/resources

[round pawn]

ohh
i can answer that

I recommend VSvode and Sublime Text for python (Thats what I prefer)

or if u want an IDE

use pycharm

[dawn quiver]

maybe

i use jetbrqims

jetbrains

dont use it

too complicated

when i get to pc ill send

[dawn quiver]

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ might as well bite the bullet, get the community edition it's free

what you actually need is the know how

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBbrSDGGOkw&ab_channel=MikeDane

try follwing along to this

[dawn quiver]

call me progress

because then you'd be lying

this needs so much work

[slate briar]

Hey, its python a good language for game development?

[tranquil girder]

yes

[jagged cave]

everyone

join this minecraft server

ExcellentEra.aternos.me

oh wait

sorry wrong server

😭

[ocean timber]

hey so i'm basically trying to send direct keyboard input into a specific window ( Rage multiplayer) i'm completely lost and would appreciate any help

i want to get input thru even when the window is out of focus

[cyan snow]

don't spam .....

[radiant sage]

can i see some projects some of you guys have done?

[round obsidian]

@radiant sage This is a game I'm working on now in Python https://xtaloid.itch.io/xtaloid

[radiant sage]

damn that looks sick, is there a github? i can only see the download

[round obsidian]

I don't have source code available for this on GitHub, but it's all Python with a smidge of Cython (C)

[radiant sage]

mkay

[dawn quiver]

nah

only reason why im working on a game in python is because i have that assigned

idk why anybody would actually choose to use python for games

@round obsidian i actuallly would like an explanation if you could, why are you writing a game in python

@slate briar if you're looking to become a game programmer i'd go with c++ if you wanna work in games, or maybe you could try unity using c# or godot with gdscript.

python for games seems like a waste of time imo, though it is better than nothing, if that's the only language you can bare to learn now program in python and learn other languages later

[round obsidian]

@dawn quiver because I know Python, and it's easy to work with, and I'm getting very good results

what's your specific objection to Python?

[dawn quiver]

slow and not used in the industry

[marsh seal]

not so good for games

[dawn quiver]

obviously if it works for you then it works for you

[marsh seal]

unless its 2d game then its fine

[dawn quiver]

even 2d

why bother when you have actual engines

[marsh seal]

yeh there is better options but

its ok for simple games

[round obsidian]

Python is plenty fast enough for the game I'm writing

[dawn quiver]

that's true

but if anybody asked me what language they should learn for games, i would never list python

[round obsidian]

my game runs at 60FPS, and I use maybe 0.06% of that time in the game logic and draw operations combined

[round obsidian]

You won't be making AAA 3D games in Python, for sure, but you can certainly write good decently performant 2D games

[dawn quiver]

python is great for machine learning or so i've heard, im a begginer pretty much

[round obsidian]

but the whole "Python's too slow" thing can be rebutted by doing some simple performance profiling

[dawn quiver]

then why do apps that have to run fast not use it

i don't get it

it has it's uses it's a great language

[round obsidian]

because many people do not know how to use Python well?

[dawn quiver]

that's ridiculous cmon

[round obsidian]

I'm only reporting what I've seen, many people don't know the wealth of tools available in the language's ecosystem for performant applications

[dawn quiver]

it's like saying assembly would be great for modern programming, you just have to be good at it

[round obsidian]

e.g., the most performance intensive part of my game, I wrote in Cython (which compiles to a C module), with a speedup of 500x for that part of the code

but I run into folks all the time who don't know anything about even performance profiling

I won't belabor the point, though - I'm using it, it works fine for this, at some point I'm most likely going to learn C# and Unity too, but for now I'm quite happy

[dawn quiver]

sure

good luck

[round obsidian]

so far I seem to have it :D

but one of the nice things about Python is how closely you can integrate stuff written in C

[torn patrol]

hey guys how can i like connect or call python game menu script in my game script ?

like all this .py files one is having loading screen one have menu one have main game in it

[tranquil girder]

you import them

and if things need to be instantiated in a specific order, you do that too

[torn patrol]

oke thanks 😄

[frozen knoll]

Arcade 2.6.0.dev5 is out as a pre-release. (You'll have to specify the version when pip-installing, or you'll get 2.5.7.) If you want to try out the new (or old) features, we'd love your feedback. Release notes: https://api.arcade.academy/en/development/development/release_notes.html

[tranquil girder]

hey, I made that :)

[torn patrol]

?

[torn patrol]

i made it its a simple gun with bullets firing i made that using a yotube tutorial 🙂

[tranquil girder]

well, it's identical to the test scene for the first person controller

[torn patrol]

yeah

cuz i wanted to look it like 3d haha

[torn patrol]

i am actually looking how to load blender 3d models if possible or .obj files bc its not loading in it

[tranquil girder]

you just have to write the name of it

[torn patrol]

like how can you tell ?

[torn patrol]

holy shit are you the developer of the ursina engine ?

[tranquil girder]

yes x)

you should put your model in the same folder as your script or in a folder below too. that's easy to forget

[torn patrol]

👀 btw the engine is 🔥 not gonna lie

[torn patrol]

i just saw your comment on github i might try to triangulate it first

[torn patrol]

aye bro it is working but the texture of objects is not there only white color

[sharp raven]

What does this symbol over the vector mean?

[grave carbon]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/dupugafodu.apache

The backgrounds only 1/2 cycle I cant get them to full cycle

[dawn quiver]

how do i get caod 2 work

[ember glade]

There are better ways to ask someone for more information

[dawn quiver]

thats the joke

[ember glade]

You seem to be the only one laughing

[dawn quiver]

idk man i'll figure it out somehow, my shitty ray tracing engine ain't workin

[ember glade]

Ah, apologies, I thought you were responding to Snake's question

Thought it was mocking

[dawn quiver]

oh i have no idea what he wants
not here to mock random people who are better than me at this langauge

[ember glade]

No no all good, my fault for misunderstanding. Been a rough week

[dawn quiver]

oh really
watcha up to

[dawn quiver]

how maek gaem work

?!?!?!

i am seething holy shid what is wrong with coad

[potent ice]

@dawn quiver Are you trolling or is this serious?

[dawn quiver]

wdym

my code doesn't work for reasons i will find out

[cold storm]

Hey all!

I am back

with a vengeance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MA2_gernow

check this out

[dawn quiver]

really like the effect that phases in the ground

HAHAHA

im fuckin

IT

it was in loop

a bit of my code was in a loop and that's what caused the errors

clock.tick(clock,60)

using pygame.time.Clock I'm trying to set a framerate for my game, however the ide flags this as a warning saying :

Expected type 'Clock', got 'Type[Clock]' instead

[dawn quiver]

if somebody could dm me what teh fuck is wrong with my shit i'd appriciate it or just ping me

[foggy python]

Performant grass in Pygame:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/554140571787067393/875612395681222666/vid_0.mp4

[regal jolt]

Good

[wicked kernel]

can i get this

[foggy python]

I’ll release it to patrons soon and I’ll post it on GitHub in ~6 months or so.

[shut iris]

how do you read

[willow canyon]

Hey !
I want to make a multiplayer fps with python.
Networking is ok, but can someone help me finding the right lib ?
If i could use some blender objects to do it, it can be nice x))

And, pls ping to respond, thx

[dawn quiver]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__mZO-53PPM&t=1240s will this work with ursina ?

[manic oyster]

hi what libraries do I usually use when I'm developing a text-based game

[willow canyon]

No one, simply create classes

[willow canyon]

Well, if it doesnt, use pickle.load and pickle.dump

[dawn quiver]

ok

[willow canyon]

If u need an explication of how to use, ask x)

[severe saffron]

thats absolutely amazing

[warm portal]

It's a conventional sign

[rancid zinc]

Omg how is this so good! I find pygame so sooo hard to use

[stray gazelle]

hey guys does anyone know a good method to make games using python, ive already tried pygame and turtle library but still they dont seem so good...

[frozen knoll]

@stray gazelle Have you tried Arcade?

[torn patrol]

many are there 1-pygame 2-arcade 3-ursina 4-panda3d 5-godot 6-pyglet but pygame , ursina , arcade are best among all these

[dawn quiver]

what kind of game

what do you want to do

if you want to just write your own shit

[vocal steppe]

Hello 👋
My name is Samuel
I'm Amy from Brazil, then sorry by the mistakes of portuguese
I would like to know if I can create a game in Python on my cell phone??

I use the Replit website

[dawn quiver]

anyone know why my shader is not working

[runic lantern]

does anyone want to test my custom built text adventure game framework? https://github.com/y3493r/pyadventure

[stray gazelle]

il sure try arcade... is it a library?

oh and

im actually trying to make something like

pubg

or gta

i mean

not exactly like that but something with good graphics

i can do the code, the algorithm, im good with algorithms but im not able to find a good graphic library or platform for making a game with as good graphics as pubg or fortnite or gta

i found platforms for graphics development but they work on c++....... i could not find for python

[dawn quiver]

anyone know any good github shaders?

[vocal steppe]

help

how do i fix this error?? I do not understand

[stuck stone]

okay, do you know on what line of code the error is?

[vocal steppe]

not

but I know the error is on line 14

[stuck stone]

okay well

the error says that "module object is not callable"

makes sense, right? modules aren't meant to be called

and what if I told you that pygame.display is a module

do you see the problem then?

[vocal steppe]

yes

I think I could see the problem thanks

[last moon]

is there a reason not to pickle over using a json? seems like a lot less of a hassle than [un]packing state into a json

[round obsidian]

@last moon Pickle has no security, but then again neither does JSON
JSON is more broadly interchangeable, Pickle is specific to Python

[severe saffron]

by 'no security' do you mean encryption?

the real problem with pickle is that you can get arbitrary code execution if a malicious pickle file is loaded

and also yeah its less useful as an interchange format

[round obsidian]

@severe saffron that's pretty much it: a pickle file can contain anything

arbitrary code execution = no security

[wide tree]

pycharm is a good IDE to make games with pygame?

[round obsidian]

@wide tree any good Python IDE will do.

[wide tree]

ok thanks

[proper peak]

but then again neither does JSON
since when does decoding JSON can execute arbitrary code?

[round obsidian]

point

[round obsidian]

well, more like, JSON has no native mechanisms for, for instance, checksumming or signing data

but your point is still taken

[copper thorn]

ive been trying to play ur games from github(the links) but im not sure how to even play it lmao

[exotic laurel]

woah, i thought normal GUI alterations would be clumpsy for a bot like that but those are pretty good results

[dawn quiver]

has anyone made a minecraft clone in ursina with mesh if u have pls dm me i need help

[exotic laurel]

Pretty good tutorial https://youtu.be/DHSRaVeQxIk, also explains minor urisna basics, hope it helps

[dawn quiver]

there is no mesh

[exotic laurel]

AH right okay

[dawn quiver]

have u made ?

[exotic laurel]

nope

[magic pelican]

Python in Java

[muted gust]

Where should i store photo to load it in pygame?

[dawn quiver]

@magic pelican yeah

[dawn quiver]

It's a good logo

But, can you make a simple logo

like, simplified?

[dawn quiver]

no

[fervent rose]

!warn 376588652790284288 Please do not promote your YouTube content here, especially if it breaks the game's EULA

[frank field]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied warning to @edgy night.

[fervent rose]

Also @dawn quiver this isn't the right channel for posting minecraft screenshot, feel free to share it in off-topic!

[dawn quiver]

i asked @olive grotto he only told me to post here

[fervent rose]

I doubt he did

Or you misunderstood him

[dawn quiver]

no i did not misunderstood him and yes he said it

[dawn quiver]

but i did not want to blame him as he was using the word "maybe"

[dawn quiver]

In Brazil we call that "Treta"

[potent ice]

People can also be wrong. That is the shocking truth 😄

[bleak reef]

can anyone help with an enemy call in pygame

[potent ice]

@bleak reef This is very useful to read : https://pythondiscord.com/pages/guides/pydis-guides/asking-good-questions/

[bleak reef]

lol

does anyone know how to make an enemy class where i can also spawn in a bunch of enemys? also while having a "ai" system to attack?

[patent urchin]

um, create a class for the enemy, have methods and attributes inside it with the ai thing done in it, and i guess use a for loop to spawn in a bunch of enemies, or if you also want to randomize spawn locations just use the random module and get a random location for spawning the enemy every time the loop runs.

[brazen grove]

There is something wrong with my game. I was trying to make a tic tac toe game but when I was testing the top left button, I found out that the button isn't displaying the X or O. Can anyone help me please?

Here is the code. https://paste.pythondiscord.com/putopetife.yaml (Also this is pygame)

Also "win" is the pygame window and "run" is the bool value for game loop.

[compact parcel]

hello

so im getting this error even tho i installed the right mudoles

Exception has occurred: SystemExit
1
  File "D:\Android app\android.py", line 2, in <module>
    from kivy.uix.textinput import TextInput```

[round obsidian]

@frozen knoll do you have any experience working with the new shader module in Pyglet 2? I ran into an issue that might either be a bug or my own inexperience.

[frozen knoll]

I've worked with the shadertoy in arcade, i think it might be built on top of that.

[round obsidian]

@frozen knoll
I'm trying to work with the new shader module but I'm having trouble with a shader that has the following uniform: uniform vec4 palette[7];
When I try to set its value using the program object, it doesn't recognize a uniform by the name palette, only palette[0] (with a length of 4). Any idea what I am doing wrong?

[potent ice]

@round obsidian Can you show your shader?

Remember that glsl compilers are really loves to optimize your uniforms

If determines that you only use the first 4 entries in that array it will make it length 4

The best thing to do is setting the palette data as a tuple ```glsl
uniform float values[10];

```py
program["values"] = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

An alternative solution is storing the palette vales in a texture and reading them using texelFetch

[round obsidian]

@potent ice how would the latter approach work?

#version 330
    in vec4 vertex_colors;
    in vec3 texture_coords;
    out vec4 final_colors;    

    uniform sampler2D sprite_texture;
    uniform vec4 palette[7];

    void main()
    {
        vec4 c = texture(sprite_texture, texture_coords.xy) * vertex_colors;
        final_colors = c;
    }

I'm just trying to read in the value to see if it works, I haven't done anything with palette yet. I think the problem is in Pyglet's shader module?

I just now tried using the uniform float values[10] approach, and I get this error

  File "D:\Dev\Robotron 2021\.env\lib\site-packages\pyglet\graphics\shader.py", line 153, in setter_func
    c_array[0] = value
TypeError: must be real number, not list

Found uniform: palette[0], type: 5126, size: 7, location: 0, length: 1, count: 1

I think the problem is the shader module doesn't know how to deal with uniforms that are arrays

e.g., an array of vec4s or floats

[potent ice]

You can only assign values to a uniform in one go

assigning all values in a big tuple is the simplest

[round obsidian]

right, I'mt rying to do that, and it's erroring out

I'm assigning all the values as a tuple, and it rejects it

self.program["palette[0]"] = the_tuple

and again it generates this error

  File "D:\Dev\Robotron 2021\.env\lib\site-packages\pyglet\graphics\shader.py", line 153, in setter_func
    c_array[0] = value
TypeError: must be real number, not list

[potent ice]

self.program["palette"]

[round obsidian]

  File "D:\Dev\Robotron 2021\.env\lib\site-packages\pyglet\graphics\shader.py", line 336, in __setitem__
    raise Exception("Uniform with the name `{0}` was not found.".format(key))
Exception: Uniform with the name `palette` was not found.

from debug:

Found uniform: palette[0], type: 5126, size: 28, location: 0, length: 1, count: 1

[potent ice]

oh. It's pyglet

[round obsidian]

Yeah, that's been my suspicion

[potent ice]

I thougth you were using our gl 3.3 wrapper in arcade

[round obsidian]

no, sorry if that wasn't clear earlier

[potent ice]

Ask in pyglet discord 🙂

[round obsidian]

I did, no reply yet

thanks for your help all the same

[potent ice]

@round obsidian you can use arcade.gl with pyglet if you need to. Just create an arcade.gl.Context instance and you are good to go. It's at least a much more complete api to gl 3.3 (considering you are using 3.3 shaders)

[potent ice]

pyglet and arcade's gl wrapper will probably slowly melt together over time anyway

[round obsidian]

I found a workaround that should get me most of the way home for what I'm doing, actually

[craggy tundra]

HI

[dawn quiver]

hi

[cedar birch]

from pyglet.window.key import X
from pyleap import*
from pyleap.shape import sprite
window.set_size(800,400)

monkey = "https://cdn.leaplearner.education/i/1ea273.png"
mk = Sprite(monkey,170,100,100,100)
mk.flip()
mons = "https://cdn.leaplearner.education/i/5926f1.png"
mn = Sprite(mons,700,100,100,100)
#mk.flip()
r1 = Rectangle(200,90,50,20,"gold")
r2 = Rectangle(250,90,100,20,"brown")
r3 = Rectangle(350,90,50,20,"gold")
r4 = Rectangle(630,70,25,50,"green")
r5 = Rectangle(630,120,25,50,"pink")
r6 = Rectangle(630,170,25,50,"black")


def draw(dt):
    #window.show_axis()
    window.clear()
    r1.x=r1.x+1
    r2.x=r2.x+1
    r3.x=r3.x+1
    r1.draw()
    r2.draw()
    r3.draw()
    r4.draw()
    r5.draw()
    r6.draw()
    mk.draw()
    mn.draw()
    #Text(str(r1.x),700,300,20,"red").draw()
    # if r3.x>=620:
    #     mn.x=mn.x+1
    # if r1.x<=465:
    #     mk.x=mk.x+1
    if r4.x>=515:
        r4.x=r4.x-1
    if r5.x>=515:
        r5.x=r5.x-1
    if r6.x>=515:
        r6.x=r6.x-1
    if mn.x>=585:
        mn.x=mn.x-1
    if r4.x>=515:
        r4.x=r4.x+1

repeat(draw)
run()

r4 obj is not moving

[dawn quiver]

i have a blender model of a house if i try to open it in ursina it is not
can anyone tell how to open my model ?

[rare leaf]

I'm trying to move my camera in gta5 using python, but it doesnt work

i tried:

import pyautogui

while True:
    pyautogui.moveTo(0,100,)

[rare delta]

Some im using something like this to makethe window open

How do i make words print onto the window?
Becuase using print will only print the words into the terrminal

import turtle as t
import os
import time 

win = t.Screen()    # creating a window
win.title("Test") # Giving name to the game.
win.bgcolor('black')    # providing color to the HomeScreen
win.setup(width=800,height=800) # Size of the game panel 
win.tracer(0)   # which speed up's the


while True:
    win.update()```

[gray mist]

how do i create a 3d model for ursina

[plain wolf]

go to blender, make your model, export as obj

[limpid gate]

Does anyone have any good references for learning how to make multiplayer games with python?

All I've been able to find are old, outdated tutorials that no longer seem to work properly

[round obsidian]

@limpid gate Here's a recent Pygame project that supports multiplayer and which might be useful as a codebase to examine

https://github.com/OliverKillane/Multiplayer-Game

[limpid gate]

Ill take a look thank you!

[round obsidian]

Anotehr nifty example

https://python-forum.io/thread-23029.html

[rare delta]

Some im using something like this to makethe window open

How do i make words print onto the window?
Becuase using print will only print the words into the terrminal
import turtle as t
import os
import time

win = t.Screen() # creating a window
win.title("Test") # Giving name to the game.
win.bgcolor('black') # providing color to the HomeScreen
win.setup(width=800,height=800) # Size of the game panel
win.tracer(0) # which speed up's the

while True:
win.update()

[muted gust]

can anybody help trying to make the pic move using get_rect but the code doesnt make the image move

        Player_rect = Player.get_rect(topright = (200, 300))
        
        
        screen.blit(background_image, center)

        Player_rect.left += 1
        screen.blit(Player, Player_rect)
        

        pygame.display.flip()

        pygame.display.update()```

[true canopy]

go to a help channel

nobody will see this channel that can help

go to avalable help channels and type

then when you solve it do !close so someone else can use the channel

[muted gust]

ok

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[icy inlet]

Please help me. I made a camera that follows the character, but when the character collides with a wall and holds two keys, the character moves in the opposite direction.

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

Levels.py
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/qabokupigi.py

Settings.py
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/musugakepi.apache

Please

[cerulean sierra]

when i use this code, the line isnt drawing for som reason

import pygame

from pygame.locals import (
    K_UP,
    K_DOWN,
    K_LEFT,
    K_RIGHT,
    K_ESCAPE,
    KEYDOWN,
    QUIT,
)

pygame.init()

SCREEN_WIDTH = 1440
SCREEN_HEIGHT = 900

circle_coords = [0, 0]

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT))
surface = pygame.Surface((SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT))

running = True

while running:
    pygame.draw.line(surface=surface, color=(255, 255, 255), start_pos=(720, 0), end_pos=(720, 900), width=3)

    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == KEYDOWN:
            if event.key == K_ESCAPE:
                running = False```

[cerulean sierra]

ok nvm i fixed the problem

[small flint]

Anyone

Wanna

Collab

Multiplayer

Fps

Game

2d Valo

Think about it

[queen edge]

Honestly I would just recommend setting up your own game loop with tick and render functions, that can supply a delta time parameter

There are lots of good tutorials for game loops online

[lapis sapphire]

Hii

I'm trying to make a sudoku game using Python

any ideas for the GUI?

[dawn quiver]

how to upgrade pip ?

how to upgrade pip ?

[high forum]

hi

[agile otter]

pip install -U pip

[marsh seal]

how is it a fps and a 2d game lol

[unique plover]

pip install --upgrade pip

[small flint]

Uhmm

Just trying to experiment stuff

But it look abad

[wide smelt]

can somebody help me with a game?

i basically got the code from here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGf2GcyHPhc

[frank field]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied mute to @wide smelt until <t:1629304668:f> (9 minutes and 59 seconds) (reason: newlines rule: sent 137 newlines in 10s).

[blissful dock]

!unmute 447671182028963841

[frank field]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: pardoned infraction mute for @wide smelt.

[blissful dock]

!paste <- use this

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[wide smelt]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/vajuxibofo.apache

this is the code

it produces some bugs

wait

i added a few lines of code at the bottom, so it doesn't go beyond the screen

when i move the paddles, the ball speeds up for some reason

and there is a bug with sound

can someone figure out whats wrong?

someone?

[agile otter]

It seems the bug happens when colliding with the bottom and top of the paddle, maybe the original code is bugged already

anyways you should not be using turtle for these things, is a bad example imo

[analog sequoia]

import pygame

from pygame.locals import (
K_UP,
K_DOWN,
K_LEFT,
K_RIGHT,
K_ESCAPE,
KEYDOWN,
QUIT,
)

pygame.init()

SCREEN_WIDTH = 1440
SCREEN_HEIGHT = 900

circle_coords = [0, 0]

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT))
surface = pygame.Surface((SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT))

running = True

while running:
pygame.draw.line(surface=surface, color=(255, 255, 255), start_pos=(720, 0), end_pos=(720, 900), width=3)

for event in pygame.event.get():
    if event.type == KEYDOWN:
        if event.key == K_ESCAPE:
            running = False

[small flint]

import turtle

#setting up the screen
wn = turtle.Screen()
wn.title("PingPong")
wn.bgcolor("Black")
wn.setup(height=600, width=800)
wn.tracer = 0

#paddle A
paddle_a = turtle.Turtle()
paddle_a.speed(0)
paddle_a.shape("square")
paddle_a.color("white")
paddle_a.shapesize(stretch_wid=5, stretch_len=1)
paddle_a.penup()
paddle_a.goto(-350, 0)

#Paddle B
paddle_b = turtle.Turtle()
paddle_b.speed(0)
paddle_b.shape("square")
paddle_b.color("white")
paddle_b.shapesize(stretch_wid=5, stretch_len=1)
paddle_b.penup()
paddle_b.goto(350, 0)

#Ball
ball = turtle.Turtle()
ball.speed(0)
ball.shape("square")
ball.color("white")
ball.shapesize(stretch_wid=1, stretch_len=1)
ball.penup()
ball.goto(0, 0)

#defining functions
def paddle_a_up():
y = paddle_a.ycor
y += 20
paddle_a.sety(y)

#keyboard binding
wn.listen
wn.onkeypress(paddle_a_up, "w")

#Main Game Loop
while True:
wn.update()

help me

its not moving

when

i click w

[fast socket]

#databases

[queen edge]

I would really suggest using pygame rather than turtle

[small flint]

look i am also a pygame kinda person

but i was learning

anyways

[simple belfry]

class Tile(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
def init(self, image, x, y, spritesheet):
pygame.sprite.Sprite.init(self)
self.image = spritesheet.parse_sprite(image)

hey so why I'm getting error here that
AttributeError: 'pygame.Surface' object has no attribute 'parse_sprite' ?

[agile otter]

Because 'pygame.Surface' object has no attribute 'parse_sprite'

That parameter spritesheet is not what you think it is. Dynamic typing for the win.

The error is probably in the calling code

[simple belfry]

the calling is map = Tilemap('room1udrl.csv', spritesheet) where spritesheet is loaded image

[odd chasm]

what is colour key in pygame , how to avoid pygame to add black backgroung to my transparent png
btw I am trying to use a spritesheet

[agile otter]

Still hard to say. Anyways, to fix this you must be sure that the variable spritesheet is of a type that contains the method parse_sprite, a class something like pygame.Spritesheet, i'm not very familiar with pygame. The calling code im talking about should be some_tile.init(some_image, 20, 50, spritesheet).

[round obsidian]

New build of my game written in Python w/Pyglet https://xtaloid.itch.io/xtaloid/devlog/285199/new-build-new-game-features

[agile otter]

nice!

[limpid flax]

https://github.com/AxhrafY/My-laggy-platform-game

any idea why my game keeps freezing?

[dire mango]

i want to learn this

[simple belfry]

What the method parse_sprite does in pygame?

[agile otter]

Where did you get that code, did you write it yourself?

[simple belfry]

No I got it from there https://youtu.be/37phHwLtaFg

[agile otter]

I see, well take a look at https://github.com/ChristianD37/YoutubeTutorials/tree/master/Tilemap

That the code he is using, you can see that parse_sprite comes from a custom class, nothing to do with pygame

that variable is defined here spritesheet = Spritesheet('spritesheet.png') on main.py, try to follow from there, i don't have time to check that rn

[simple belfry]

Ok thanks

[echo widget]

I need help controlling mouse movements in a game with python. Pyautogui dosent work for mouse moments. I looked into it further and because the game uses directx, it wants its inputs in a specific way (idk). Sentdex made an ai that plays gta 5 and his code is at https://github.com/Sentdex/pygta5/blob/master/Tutorial Codes/Part 1-7/directkeys.py. But is only shows how to send key presses not mouse movements. Im lost and i dont know what to do

[jagged quest]

nice

[calm thistle]

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2021/08/richard-bartle-designing-virtual-worlds-free-book.html

[short silo]

hello i am a beginner in ursina, can you help me to get click position(world position)

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[idle hemlock]

hello i am new to python and i have a problem with my game code i used https://realpython.com/pygame-a-primer/ for the base and pngs
when i touch a enemy i sometimes lose health and sometimes dont and i just cant find out why pls help.
here is the code https://paste.pythondiscord.com/kacaquguvo.rb

[idle hemlock]

pls help 😦

[tranquil girder]

mouse.world_position will get the mouse position in 3d, but keep in mind it will only hit things with a collider

[short silo]

Can u help me to get the hit position in raycast, too

[tranquil girder]

it's the same, raycast() returns a HitInfo of which you can get .world_point

[short silo]

Thanks

[limpid gate]

I am trying to make a multiplayer pygame game and creating a loading screen while the client is connecting to the server.

from network import NetworkConnection # My custom network connection class

def connecting(screen):

    screen.fill((200, 200, 200))
    width, height = screen.get_size()
    
    font = pygame.font.Font('client\\fonts\\basic.TTF', 50)
    text = font.render('Connecting to Server...', 1, (150, 150, 150))
    screen.blit(text, (width/2-text.get_width()/2, height/2-text.get_height()/2))

    pygame.display.update()

def main():

    # Initialization
    pygame.init()
    pygame.mixer.init()
    pygame.font.init()

    # Screen
    width, height = 800, 600
    screen = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height))
    pygame.display.set_caption('Game')

    # Clock
    clock = pygame.time.Clock()

    # Network connection
    network = NetworkConnection()
    connected = False
    while not connected:
        connecting(screen)
        connected = network.connect() # Returns False if the connection fails

    # Main Loop
    while True:
        clock.tick(60)
        
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                pygame.quit()
                return

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()```
I just get the pygame window not responding, and I can't figure out why. I've never done something like this before so if there is a better/standard way to do a loading screen like this I would love to know that too.

[normal silo]

pygame.display.update()

Should be called once per frame at the end of the frame.

https://ryanstutorials.net/pygame-tutorial/pygame-basics.php

[limpid gate]

It is in connecting()

[normal silo]

"Should be called once per frame at the end of the frame."

The main loop contains no such call.

[limpid gate]

The main loop is never reached

Until a connection is successful, the loop above the main one continues

[normal silo]

The main loop should always be reached and everything should happen in it.

[limpid gate]

Would it not make more sense to connect to a server before the main loop?

Because you only want one connection

[normal silo]

No

[limpid gate]

Unless I guess I could add a variable or otherwise only establish a connection if one doesnt already exist

But it seemed to make more sense to create it once, then enter the game loop

[normal silo]

Everything in a game happens in the game loop.

[limpid gate]

Ok

[normal silo]

Because it's where you draw and get input. Any error that happens before it will not give any information to the user.

The only stuff that happens outside of the game loop is bare minimum initialization (like pygame.init, making the window).

Enough so that you can get input and show output.

[limpid gate]

Yeah that makes sense

So now I've got ``` network = NetworkConnection()
connected = False

# Main Loop
while True:
    clock.tick(60)

    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            return

    if not connected:
        connecting(window)
        connected = network.connect()
        continue```

[normal silo]

You don't need the continue, but yes.

the display update should happen below

it's get input, process, show ouput.

connecting should only connect

not draw anything

[limpid gate]

    # Initialization
    pygame.init()
    pygame.mixer.init()
    pygame.font.init()

    # Window
    width, height = 800, 600
    window = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height))
    pygame.display.set_caption('Card Game')

    # Clock
    clock = pygame.time.Clock()

    # Network connection
    network = NetworkConnection()
    connected = False
    
    # Main Loop
    while True:
        clock.tick(60)

        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                pygame.quit()
                return

        if not connected:
            connecting(window)
            connected = network.connect()
        
        pygame.display.update()```

[normal silo]

or get input

functions should do only one thing

[limpid gate]

connecting draws the screen

[normal silo]

What you desire is a state machine.

Or "scene" system

[limpid gate]

    window.fill((200, 200, 200))
    width, height = window.get_size()
    
    font = pygame.font.Font('client\\fonts\\basic.TTF', 50)
    text = font.render('Connecting to Server...', 1, (150, 150, 150))
    window.blit(text, (width/2-text.get_width()/2, height/2-text.get_height()/2))```

[limpid gate]

Yes

[normal silo]

To do this, create a Scene class, which has a update function and a draw function.

Scenes can transition to other scenes by by playing some transition animations and then switching the current Scene to a new Scene.

Inside their update methods they do whatever happens in that scene and also check to see if the transition conditions to other Scenes have been met (and then invoke their transition function if they are met).

[cold storm]

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

I made a new math :3

[normal silo]

With this system you can have Scenes such as main menu, options, starting-game, main-game, paused.

[limpid gate]

I'll try to do that thanks

[cold storm]

yall are living in the 1800's with that pygame stuff

UPBGE 3.0 is a beast

[normal silo]

What I do is have Scene have update, draw, on_enter, on_exit, and transition functions.

Given Scene A and Scene B. Scene A might decide in its update function that it wants to transition to B. So it calls its own transition function which calls its own on_exit function and B's on_enter function. It then sets the current scene to Scene B.

An example Scene would be SMainMenu which inherits from Scene.

In update it checks if the buttons where pressed and draws them in draw too. Which are the transition conditions.

The current scene's update and draw are called in the main loop

[limpid gate]

Do you create just a generic Scene class and then create MenuScene, GameScene, etc. classes that inherit from it, or have menu_scene, game_scene simply be instances of Scene?

Also how do you do buttons?

[round obsidian]

yes, but how big is UPBGE?

[normal silo]

Inherit. Buttons are GameObjects.

[cold storm]

1 gig @round obsidian

you can use python in BPY (the viewport) and in the ge (bpy and bge) and we also have geonodes and eevee shaders and modifiers and lots of other candy that all work in game

including openXR

the published game .exe I think is quite a bit smaller though

[serene inlet]

Does anyone know how to check for collision with one thing hitting a wall and reversing back in turtle module

[round obsidian]

so UPBGE has native support for publishing to an .exe? @cold storm

[serene inlet]

I got this from a tutorial but even the way he explains it doesn't make sense```py
import turtle as t

ball = 0
gravity = 0.1

while(True):
ball -= gravity
t.sety(t.ycor() + ball)
if(t.ycor() <= -1000):
ball *= -1
t.done()```

[cold storm]

yeah it's a included addon

it has bullet physics, sdl2 controllers, openXr was just added

we are also gradually transitioning to vulkan

which should open up mobile ports

right now though it works on

Windows
Linux
Linux arm64
Mac arm64
Mac (no well)
should work on steamOS I assume

after vulkan we should be able to port to android, reaching iphones may still require a https://webassembly.org/ port

[limpid gate]

Do you have the buttons as part of the scene class. I.e. is it something like

  def __init__(self):
    self.buttons = [Button(x=200, y=200, width=100, height=50, color=(255, 0, 0)]
  ...```

[normal silo]

All game state is stored in the GameState class, Scenes and GameObjects hold a reference to that GameState so they can access anything in the game at any time.

GameState for example, contains the current Scene and a list of GameObjects.

[limpid gate]

I mean do you have the buttons stored by scene or all together. It makes sense to me to put them all together so you can execute a "click" method in the main loop

[normal silo]

The scene and the Button (GameObjects) are all in the GameState which is an object created once and can be accessed from anywhere, game loop, inside a scene, inside a GameObject (e.g. Button).

You can also have the buttons just be in the Scene as you wrote, it's up to you. Try it and if you end up trying to do something that does not seem to fit in the system, redesign it.

As long as you have some kind of structure (e.g. Scenes), it will make designing the game a much more organized process.

[edgy verge]

Python is ok language to make games?

[normal silo]

Btw for a multiplayer game your scenes would probably go something like InitScene -> MainMenuScene -> (maybe OptionsScene) -> Loading/Connection/GameStart Scene -> GameScene -> ...

@limpid gate

Try making a single player game with the scene system first to get used to it.

[limpid gate]

@normal silo How do you avoid circular imports if the GameState holds a list of Buttons, but each Button also needs a reference to the GameState?

Do you have an projects you'd be willing to share to show how you implement this structure?

[normal silo]

You don't, they just import each other.

[limpid gate]

Do you hold a dictionary of scenes in the GameState as well?

[normal silo]

If you want to store it that way, sure. It can be stored in many ways, your choice.

[limpid gate]

Im just trying to figure out how to store buttons

Right now I have Scenes which store a list of buttons

[normal silo]

The purpose of GameState is that it's all in one place, Scene and GameObjects just have access to that data, but they don't own it (it does not die with them when they leave).

[limpid gate]

But Button instantiation requires passing in a scene (the scene to transition to)

[normal silo]

You don't have to make Button's constructor take a Scene, there absolutely nothing stopping you from just setting it later and having it None by default in which case clicking the button does nothing.

[limpid gate]

So I needed to have access to a list of scenes, so Im not instantiating the same scene in multiple button instantiations

[limpid gate]

How would you set it, if not at initialization?

[normal silo]

button.scene = ...

The same way any member is set

[limpid gate]

Where in the code structure though?

[normal silo]

Anywhere you want.

Also I don't see the issue here anyhow. If you have Scene as a constructor argument.

self.buttons = [Button(self), ...] in the scene's init

But if you want the scene to transition to

Since Scene has a reference to GameState which contains a list of all Scenes, in the init you can just do game_state.whatever

self.buttons = [Button(game_state.scene_a), ...]

[limpid gate]

I suppose my confusion is just the overall structure of how you code. Should the GameState or Scene be what holds Buttons? Does GameState hold a list of all the scenes, or does it only hold current_scene, to which buttons can assign different Scenes?

[normal silo]

GameState holds everything.

It's the game state.

[limpid gate]

Ok

[normal silo]

Everything else, just manipulates the game state.

[limpid gate]

So GameState holds buttons directly, they are not attributes of the individual Scene

[normal silo]

Yes. But you could have them be in the scenes, since the scenes are part of the game state the game state holds all buttons still then

It's just flat structure vs heirarchical.

I prefer flat, it's simple.

[limpid gate]

I think that is the distinction I have been meaning to ask without knowing the term for it

[normal silo]

Flat allows easier access from everything to everything else which is very convenient since you don't know what may need access to what else down the line when coming up with a game design.

[limpid gate]

Yeah

I guess I should stick with flat until I have more experience making games

[normal silo]

But flat also means that you now have this "god object" which holds everything, which if you are working on a team would potentially create a mess (in that case you want to balance it being too flat and a mess vs too heirarchical and hard to make quick changes).

[limpid gate]

Yeah

I definitely intuitively prefer hierarchical structure, but it seems to be causing me more headache than its worth

[normal silo]

Another tip which you may notice down the line is that really everything can be a GameObject, including Scenes themselves resulting in the entire game being unified under one system .

Hierarchical seems nice at first, but for things like games which have lots and lots of interdependent systems, every heirarchical solution ends up trying to be flat anyhow, even if you are trying to turn a blind eye to it.

Or as it's called in OOP, cross cutting concerns.

[limpid gate]

Makes sense

Thank you

[normal silo]

And games are all cross-cutting concerns.

Many game engines are realizing this and switching to solutions such as ECS which allow this flatness.

(But you don't need an entire ECS almost always, just keep it simple like the solution I gave)

[potent ice]

It really depends on the game to be honest. You can make pretty neat gamecode without an ecs

If you're working in a team and/or potentially will have a fairly complex game.. that is a completely different situation

[limpid gate]

@normal silo Hey so I was wondering if I could ask you some questions again. Do you keep everything in the same file? I have GameState and Scene classes in seperate files, and this naturally gives a circular import error when I do something like:

class GameState:
    def __init__(self, window):
        self.window = window
        self.current_scene = MenuScene(self)```and
```class MenuScene:

    def __init__(self, game_state):
        self.game_state = game_state
        self.window = self.game_state.window```

[normal silo]

Use import scenes, not from scenes import MenuScene

This is some python specific jank you need to figure out.

[limpid gate]

Ah ok thanks

I’ve been working with Python for about a year but still feel like a newbie sometimes

Thanks for your help / advice

[oblique crow]

https://hastebin.com/zeyasaqohu.py

help me

[tranquil girder]

seems you need to call it image, not img

[simple belfry]

hey so I'm confused, I have this line in pygame:

spritesheet = pygame.image.load('tileset1.png').convert_alpha()
and I get the error: FileNotFoundError: No such file or directory.
where this file tileset1.png is in the same dir. What is the problem?

[tranquil girder]

tileset1.png and tileset.png is not the same

[simple belfry]

sory I wrote it wrong

but that's not it

[tranquil girder]

still, probably a typo

or it's not in the same directory

[simple belfry]

it is

[simple belfry]

ok I got it

[tranquil girder]

what was it?

[simple belfry]

I had to move this all one dir up and then worked

[finite solar]

A pong clone : https://youtu.be/kbAIiOqKdqY

[dawn quiver]

I'm not sure if this is too much game related but it's tkinter.

So basically I wanna make a thing where you can enter text into a thing with tkinter

then press a button that will save it to a variable called text

how could I do that?

[short silo]

i think u can do it easily by using PyQt

[slender frost]

Anyone wanna work for me? for a upcoming good planned roblox game coming soon? i need Scripters which is like coding but not really like python. ill be paying 30 percent to people who have been working for along time and 20 for new people. Which is like robux being paid to you. DM me if your instrested. * and you can exchange it into money btw the robux *

[stuck stone]

what happens when you got 4 scripters?

and how can you guarantee that you won't screw over everyone?

[lunar venture]

@dawn quiver If you use an Entry widget, you can use its .get() method to get its content at any time.

[dawn quiver]

Help please!
Here's the code:

from ursina.prefabs.first_person_controller import FirstPersonController

class Voxel(Button):
    def __init__(self, posotion = (0,0,0)):
        super().__init__(
            parent = scene,
            position = position,
            model = 'cube',
            origin_y = 0.5,
            texture = 'white_cube',
            color = color.white,
            highlight_color = color.lime)

app = Ursina()

for z in range(8):
    for x in range(8):
        voxel = Voxel(position = (x,0,z))
player = FirstPersonController()

app.run()```
When I start I get:
```Known pipe types:
  glxGraphicsPipe
(4 aux display modules not yet loaded.)
size; LVector2f(1280, 720)
render mode: default
:pnmimage:png(warning): iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/meliorator1333/PycharmProjects/MyWorld/Scripts/main.py", line 19, in <module>
    voxel = Voxel(position = (x,0,z))
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'position'

Process finished with exit code 1```
What do I need to do?

By answering you can @mention me in the answer.

[normal silo]

def __init__(self, posotion = (0,0,0)): you made a typo

[short silo]

@dawn quiver change "posotion" to "position"

[dawn quiver]

oh

thx

[dawn quiver]

thank you I figured it out now I'm just trying to make a version of it with kivy

[dawn quiver]

thank you I figured it out now I'm just trying to make a version of it with kivy

[blazing sigil]

noice

[dense creek]

#user-interfaces

[last surge]

can someone help me with pyinstaller i just cant convert my file

[small flint]

I am starting a GIT project on a multiplayer base 2d shooter game

Anyone interested to join the project can dm me

[neon ferry]

In pygame what is the best way to go to another scene? Just another while loop in the while and breaking it or does pygame have a feature for that?

[solid meteor]

I would have all your scenes in a list and just store the one you're currently on. Like if you had a theoretical Scene object (just however you're storing the actual data for a scene):

tutorial = Scene(...)
level_1 = Scene(...)
scene = [tutorial, level_1]
current_scene = 0
while True:
  # game loop stuff
  ...
  # or however you'd play out the scenes
  scene[current_scene].render()

[neon ferry]

Wouldn't that just be the same..?

[solid meteor]

It'd be better than starting a completely new game loop, especially if it's nested.

[neon ferry]

What would Scene contain?

Button data etc? I'm very new to pygame

[solid meteor]

Depends on what your game does. Some example data could be a background image, entity positions, title, etc. Pretty much anything that would be going on on the screen could be included in Scene.

[neon ferry]

I'm going to make chess

[solid meteor]

Chess probably wouldn't need scenes tbh. There isn't like a massive change in the game from one move to the next, so it'd probably be easier to just move piece objects in a single scene.

[neon ferry]

True but i was thinking about making a menu so i can combine projects

So i can click on chess for example then go to that game and go back.

[tawny monolith]

guys is my game good ?
how much you rate it ?
does it need anything else?
https://github.com/Karam-Sabbagh/Avoid-it

and what my next project should be

[neon ferry]

Is this any good? This is just for starting ofc but i want a nice base to start on -> https://paste.pythondiscord.com/itiyeherow.rb

[solid meteor]

One thing I'd say is that you could move the constants Colors and Fonts outside of Main, and structure them as a namespace. Something like:

class Colors:
  WHITE = (255, 255, 255)
  DARK_GREY = (80, 80, 80)
...
```By doing this, you don't have to construct an instance of `Colors` every time you want to access them, you can just do `Colors.WHITE`. (It also means you don't have to nest class definitions).

[neon ferry]

Is it less readable this way?

[solid meteor]

I think it would lead to less readability down the road. Examples uses with both:

colors = Colors()
screen.fill(black)
```vs
```py
screen.fill(Colors.BLACK)
```It also fits the usage for classes better, imo. The values in `Colors` shouldn't ever change, so there's not much of a point in defining them as instance variables.

[neon ferry]

I defined the colors in my init so for me it's just self.colors.white

I can always move them so i think i will let it be for now.

Thanks for the tip trough i will def consider it.

[small flint]

hOw to convert python made pygame to browser game

[neon ferry]

For what i've read it takes less time to rewrite the entire game in javascript than to convert pygame to browser.

[small flint]

Ok

And one more thing

I have a player made

How do I make it multiplayer

[neon ferry]

I think #networks knows more about that

[late yew]

hm can someone here perhaps help me understand bitmasks? im doing layering for my physics engine but i cannot wrap my head around the concept

i understand how bitmasks work in binary

it makes perfect sense there

but i dont know how to do the whole modulus/division thing to do binary operations and check bits and stuff given a base 10 number

like 1010 would be 10 in base 10, but how do i get the values of each bit out of the number 10

besides literally converting it to binary

[tawny monolith]

hacker lol

[stuck stone]

wdym? You don't have to convert to binary, to do bit masks and other bitwise operations

[late yew]

@stuck stone yeah! thats what i mean. i dont get how to do bitwise operations when something is in base 10

def bitmask_overlap(mask1: int, mask2: int) -> bool:
    # returns true if mask1 and mask2 both contain an element
    layer_1 = mask1
    layer_2 = mask2
    while layer_1 > 0 and layer_2 > 0:
        layer_1, has_bit_1 = divmod(layer_1, 2)
        layer_2, has_bit_2 = divmod(layer_2, 2)
        if has_bit_1 and has_bit_2:
            return True
    return False```

thats my current method, which is basically converting to binary bc i do the whole thing where i divide it by 2 over and over

so i cant go straight to a specific bit which makes me kinda :(

have to loop through

[stuck stone]

@late yew
mask1 & mask2?

[late yew]

how do that work

is that a thing you can do in python

[stuck stone]

yeah, it's valid

[late yew]

wha

ive never used && before

[stuck stone]

https://wiki.python.org/moin/BitwiseOperators

[late yew]

ohhhh

nicee

[stuck stone]

so basically there's not a special "base 2" type. If you use the correct operators, any number/integer will be interpreted in base 2

[late yew]

fantastic

absolutely rad

thank you

[stuck stone]

ahahaha, np

[ocean willow]

Is there a python library that's easly able to make mobile games other than kivy

[short silo]

Nope

[tranquil girder]

this is not the channel to try to get people to work for you for free, in a language that's not python, with only a hope of earning the completely useless currency robux

[slender frost]

ok

[slender frost]

but it isnt for free they do get paid they can exchange it into money but ill stop

[slender frost]

even though ur not even a mod in here

[tawny monolith]

@olive parcel do you know pybox2d ?

[olive parcel]

No, I do not

[tawny monolith]

oh sorry for the ping

[round obsidian]

@tawny monolith why not ask the maintainers? https://github.com/pybox2d/pybox2d

there's also examples in that repo, if you need them

[tawny monolith]

I know

but I am having some problems installing it

[round obsidian]

open an issue with them, see what they say

@tawny monolith It also looks like there's a pipwin installer that may help

pip install pipwin
pipwin install pybox2d

[tawny monolith]

they says download Msys and finally do in Msys python setup.py build and Msys telling me that there is no command called python

[round obsidian]

that way you don't have to build from source, you can use a precompiled binary

[tawny monolith]

oh ok thanks

[analog token]

Hello everyone I have a problem, I created a small python script for minecraft but when I click on the minecraft window it is as if the bot stops. The typing action does not work in the games but on my desktop it works perfectly

[cold storm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN18cr5-lQk

😄

like 95% powered by python

I use c for things like reinstance Physics mesh and recalculate normals

[frank field]

Hey @cold storm!

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

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

[tawny monolith]

@round obsidian its not working help me please its giving me this error ```C:\WINDOWS\system32>pipwin install pybox2d
Package pybox2d not found
Try pipwin refresh

[tawny monolith]

Help :(

[round obsidian]

@tawny monolith sorry, I had to run off to deal with some stuff.

@tawny monolith try pipwin install box2d

[small flint]

Hecker*

[idle hemlock]

hello i am new to python and i have a problem with my game. code i used https://realpython.com/pygame-a-primer/ for the base and pngs.
when i touch a enemy i sometimes lose health and sometimes don't and i just cant find out why pls help.
here is the code https://paste.pythondiscord.com/kacaquguvo.rb
PyGame: A Primer on Game Programming in Python – Real Python

[small flint]

hello

any pygame people online

i need some help

#client file.
import pygame

width = 500
height = 500
win = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height))
pygame.display.set_caption("Client")

clientNumber = 0
class Player():
def init(self, x, y, width, height, color):
self.x = x
self.y = y
self.width = width
self.height = height
self.color = color
self.rect = (x,y,width, height)
self.vel = 3

def draw(self, win):
    pygame.draw.rect(win, self.color, self.rect)

def move(self):
    pygame.keys.get_pressed()
    keys = pygame.keys.get_pressed()
    if keys(pygame.K_LEFT):
        self.x -= self.vel
    if keys(pygame.K_RIGHT):
        self.x += self.vel
    if keys(pygame.K_UP):
        self.y -= self.vel
    if keys(pygame.K_DOWN):
        self.y += self.vel

    self.rect(self.x, self.y, self.width, self.height)

def redrawWindow(win,player):
win.fill (255, 255, 255)
player.draw(win)
pygame.display.update()

def main():
run = True
p = Player(50,50,100,100(0,255,0))
clock = pygame.time.clock()

while run:
    clock.tick(60)
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            run = False
            pygame.quit()


    p.move()
    redrawWindow(win, p)

main()

[frank field]

Here's how to format Python code on Discord:

```py
print('Hello world!')
```

These are backticks, not quotes. Check this out if you can't find the backtick key.

[small flint]

import pygame

width = 500
height = 500
win = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height))
pygame.display.set_caption("Client")

clientNumber = 0
class Player():
    def __init__(self, x, y, width, height, color):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        self.width = width
        self.height = height
        self.color = color
        self.rect = (x,y,width, height)
        self.vel = 3

    def draw(self, win):
        pygame.draw.rect(win, self.color, self.rect)

    def move(self):
        pygame.keys.get_pressed()
        keys = pygame.keys.get_pressed()
        if keys(pygame.K_LEFT):
            self.x -= self.vel
        if keys(pygame.K_RIGHT):
            self.x += self.vel
        if keys(pygame.K_UP):
            self.y -= self.vel
        if keys(pygame.K_DOWN):
            self.y += self.vel

        self.rect(self.x, self.y, self.width, self.height)


def redrawWindow(win,player):
    win.fill (255, 255, 255)
    player.draw(win)
    pygame.display.update()

def main():
    run = True
    p = Player(50,50,100,100(0,255,0))
    clock = pygame.time.clock()

    while run:
        clock.tick(60)
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                run = False
                pygame.quit()

    
        p.move()
        redrawWindow(win, p)

main()```

ok man just help me fix it

[tawny monolith]

Oh ok thanks I will try it later

[tawny monolith]

Yeah haha

[tawny monolith]

Let me see

[tawny monolith]

can you tell me whats the error ? And were it is ?

@small flint .

[small flint]

arre bhai

fix ho gya

[tawny monolith]

You should remove self.rect(self.x,,,) from the move function because thats not how you move a rect you should doself.rect.move(self.x, self.y) and you can put this in the draw function

[tawny monolith]

???

[small flint]

it fixed

[tawny monolith]

And you can call the move function inside the draw function(before you draw)

[tawny monolith]

So you can just call the draw function instead of calling the draw function and the move function

[tawny monolith]

Yeah but you can fix some things to make your code easier

[small flint]

ok

[tawny monolith]

@round obsidianthanks you verrrry much,
I've spended an lot of time trying to do this and here you go 2 lines of command and it have been installed, thank you it worked

I've tried to download wsys , c++ and swig and I couldn't do it

but now with some commands in cmd it worked

[tawny monolith]

guys what do you think about my game ?
https://github.com/Karam-Sabbagh/Avoid-it

is it good ?

[cloud spruce]

yes it is amazing

[tawny monolith]

oh really

[tawny monolith]

thank you

its kinda simple

It needed some math

like sin and cos

where I still didn't learn in school

[short silo]

😏

[tawny monolith]

oh I forgot something

the screen size :L

well I don't care

who play it must know some programming

(to change the size)

[late yew]

hey do you guys know about variable inheiritance? im trying to figure out how to make a configurable class which is defined and then instantiated inside a function

like specifically a "GameObject", which when instantiated, takes in parent classes as additional arguments

so that way i can make a gameobject that inheirits from physics object class but not my sprite class, so it has a hitbox but doesnt get drawn, etc

ive never done this before but id like for the object to just not have variables, as opposed to just not using the physics related variables if its static

[stuck stone]

like this?

@late yew

[late yew]

@stuck stone i think?? im not sure if thats what i meant because i dont really understand whats going on

double underscores scare me

ive used if __name__ == __main__ but fuck me if i know what it means

wait is that unrelated?

[stuck stone]

No ahahaha, it's just something I put in all my programs

I can explain it to you, if you want

[late yew]

that would be nice

thank you for also showing me the inheiritance thing

but yes i would like to know what the hell the double underscores are

[stuck stone]

Well, there are a few double underscore variables. Usually it's just variables that are defined by default. Probably got the weird name so no one accidentally uses them without being aware they exist

[late yew]

ah okey

i understand __init__

thats like the one function thats already defined for the base python object

[stuck stone]

yeah, exactly

so that's defined for objecs

__name is for modules

[celest escarp]

Is pygame library, cross platform?
Also can I make my own game engine inside it?

[frozen crest]

what editor?

i want to change my vs code background lol

[stuck stone]

Oh yeah

You technically can change your VS Code background with extensions

but it breaks the installation

[stuck stone]

PyCharm

[frozen crest]

ok

[quaint siren]

does anyone know how can I center my player hitbox (Rect)?

[cold storm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNeoZ7K14W0

[finite solar]

If you're using pygame you can use yourRectangleName.center = pygame.Vector2(x_coord, y_coord) (or just use an array it works too)

[pure verge]

Ok

https://youtube.com/channel/UCoTIR2NL-rujCEZJ9BZZvkQ

[small flint]

Anyone online to help me

[crimson hound]

@small flint Just ask your question, don't ask to ask

!paste

[frank field]

Pasting large amounts of code

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

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

[crimson hound]

you can use this to paste your code

[small flint]

      ```

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

[crimson hound]

And what issues do you have with the code?

[small flint]

its not animating

[nova wedge]

anyone available?

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

i tried to make a game by whenever i enter the player's choice, the if code is skipped for the player and only the cpu moved

[serene moon]

Hey guys. What's a good import for working with 3D models? I'm trying pymesh but i'm not having much luck getting it to even install properly.

[round obsidian]

@serene moon what version of Python are you using?

and what OS?

[serene moon]

Windows 10. And I believe latest python

;-; all i'm trying to do is display a 3D model I downloaded off the internet using python

why does this need to be so complicated

At least I've found several ways of not how to do it

[round obsidian]

pyglet I believe also lets you import and show 3D models in common formats

and it's pure Python, no binary deps

https://github.com/pyglet/pyglet/tree/master/examples/3dmodel

side note, when people try to do something and say "why is this so complicated" one of the answers I find myself reaching for is "because until now the complexity of this was concealed from you"

[serene moon]

I guess this is why people dont bother making their own game engines lol

[round obsidian]

yes :D

people are unaware of how much complexity is inside many common pieces of software

we had a discussion in another channel with someone who wanted to make their own web browser in Python, from scratch, and didn't seem to realize just how massive an undertaking that is

browsers are essentially little OSes at this point

[serene moon]

Browsers are starting to actually advertise as an OS lol

[undone pilot]

Does anyone with basic python knowledge feel generous today? I'm in my last year of high school, making an arcade game and I need help with getting an image of my healthbar in the right hand corner. I've got the png photos and everything. There is currently functional text that changes every time I lose a life but I don't know how to replace the number in text with its equivalent image. If anyone wants to save me from my simple problems, it'd be appreciated. I have tried other things, this is just my last resort because I take an online class, I don't know anyone in my class that well and my problem is too specific for google because i'm not using the same plugins and software. Sorry for the long message lol

[serene moon]

what in the actual hell. highschool and learning this stuff?
boy. Back in my day all we were taught about computers is how to turn them on.

[undone pilot]

That does make me feel better lol

[serene moon]

I aint even kidding. The most advanced computer type class we had was learning to use the microsoft programs lol

Granted this was over 15 years ago

Maybe not 15. idk. my concept of time has warped since I stopped counting

[undone pilot]

True, computers have developed.

But do you think you could help?

[round obsidian]

@undone pilot what library are you using?

[serene moon]

Me? hell na. I can't even get python to function properly. I would if I knew how tho.

[undone pilot]

I am using the arcade library and os

[round obsidian]

@undone pilot @Paul Craven#0050 maintains the Arcade library and he hangs out here, so try pinging him with that question. Note that you can also use a font to render text rather than static images, so that might be easier

[undone pilot]

Yeah i'm trying to render an image that is still

Instead of the number

[serene moon]

maybe instead of 3d models I'll do some arcade 2d models and games

Maybe that'll be easier to do xD

[undone pilot]

So right now it says "health: 5" and when you hit an enemy, it says "health: 4" so I need to replace that text for the image of the corresponding health bar

[serene moon]

Can't you just create a box there and resize it based on the % of health remaining?

[undone pilot]

I already have a set image that I designed

[serene moon]

How are you currently displaying stuff on screen? why cant you just use the same methods and change the position/image?

[undone pilot]

because I don't know what the command is to replace it with an image

Draw our health on the screen, scrolling it with the viewport

    health_text = f"Health: {self.health}"
    arcade.draw_text(health_text, 1400 + self.view_left, 10 + self.view_bottom,
                     arcade.csscolor.BLACK, 18)

That code displays the health as it changes as TEXT but I need to put an image instead of text lol

The small things are always the most painful

[serene moon]

And how do you display images on screen?

And can you assign layers?

[undone pilot]

I've made a sprites

I'm kind of new to this and we're using a software called Pycharm and a software called Tiled. Tiled is like a map design software that means I have to do less code if i use it smartly

[serene moon]

Can you create a new sprite for the healthbar and simply draw it where the health_text is? and then layer the health text over the sprite?

[undone pilot]

That is what I have been trying to do for the past 5 hours, yes

But there are all kinds of errors

[serene moon]

I'm still confused as to how you can create other sprites and display them but you can't simply copy and paste the exact same code and simply change what sprite it's loading?

[undone pilot]

That's what i've been trying to do but they're different in subtle ways

The only other similar sprite I have is my main character sprite

The health bar should move along with the viewport screen, the player does but not in the same way

the game window

[serene moon]

Are you using this website? https://api.arcade.academy/en/latest/examples/index.html#sprites

[undone pilot]

yup

[serene moon]

oh

you need to be using the GUI elements

[undone pilot]

What's that?

[serene moon]

a whole bunch of 'em

https://api.arcade.academy/en/latest/examples/gui_elements.html?highlight=GUI

Wait. this tiled program. why arent u using that to display your gui?

[undone pilot]

I'll have a play around with what's there.

And because if I used that, it wouldn't move with my screen

Thanks for that link btw

[serene moon]

https://doc.mapeditor.org/en/stable/manual/introduction/#getting-started

[undone pilot]

Yeah, I'm vaguely familiar, I've created my own map and collectibles etc

[serene moon]

But have you created layers?

And assigned certain things to certain layers

[undone pilot]

Yes, but the layers are bound to their spacial position it seems. By that I mean, they don't move with the screen, they stay still

[serene moon]

Because you need to do something lol

https://doc.mapeditor.org/en/stable/manual/layers/#parallax-scrolling-factor

[undone pilot]

Ah parallax scrolling, see i'm learning all these terms