🔒 Help with pacman movement

[dense sandal]

@ember pecan

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[ember pecan]

Hello, when I try to move the pacman... everything works fine at first but if the pacman is facing down and I try to move it right or left, it won't work, I can only go in the upward direction; have a look

[limpid umbra]

need ocde

code

[ember pecan]

can you guide me on how I can upload it please.... I just copy and paste in the chat ?

[limpid umbra]

give me the code as text

is it in multiple files?

[ember pecan]

nope

wait

[limpid umbra]

then send it as text

[ember pecan]

hmm just copy and paste here you mean? I try to do that but something is wrong

[limpid umbra]

yes

[ember pecan]

my message is getting deleted, wait

[limpid umbra]

the bot is probably telling you to upload it somewhere

go and do that

[lucid furnace]

!paste

[dense sandal]

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[limpid umbra]

then paste the link

[ember pecan]

ok wait

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/GMHQ

here

[limpid umbra]

i get an error, you have imported board but it doesnt seem to work for me

[ember pecan]

oh this is in another file ops... it's the map

wait

[limpid umbra]

in you video theres a file "board.py", you imported that file so i need that too

[ember pecan]

ok 2sec

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/AOJA - link for board

hmm there is also a folder where I place the picture of the pacman

I should upload that also I think

[limpid umbra]

is your code on github or something else?

[ember pecan]

hmm no :c

[limpid umbra]

i cnat run the code without those files

you have to upload them

[ember pecan]

2sec

Hmm I have uploaded the pictures.... you need to create the assets folder next to the python file you will run the code... then just create a sub-folder containing the images... name the sub-folder as player_images

oh we can't download the images?

[limpid umbra]

i can download them

[ember pecan]

😭

[limpid umbra]

give me a minute

[ember pecan]

oh ok

I will just give you the name of each picture

They are named 1 , 2 , 3 ,4

I think that's all what you need... juste create another file called board then write the code in the above link

[limpid umbra]

got the game working

[ember pecan]

yeah nice... as you can see.. the pacman is blocked and can no longer move right or left but can go upwards

[limpid umbra]

yes

if i understand you use numbers for the direction the player is facing

[ember pecan]

yep

[limpid umbra]

3 is down and 0,1 is left right

[ember pecan]

0 right , 1 left, 2 up and 3 down

yes

0 is right

[limpid umbra]

you could use strings to make it more readable but whatever

[fervent fern]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[meager marlin]

could use ENUMs too i think to translate DIR.RIGHT to be equal to 0 or something

[limpid umbra]

i think i have the problem

something is wrong with valid turns

[ember pecan]

Hmm I'm trying to find the error 😭

[limpid umbra]

at the bottom you can see vailid_turns

only 2 (up) is a valid turn

[dire zinc]

that indentation doesn't seem right

I would assume KEYUP and KEYDOWN should be on the same level

[limpid umbra]

game feels weird when doing that

[dire zinc]

I'd probably not use the event loop anyway, but rather the pygame.key.get_pressed() function, that gives you (outside of the for-event loop) a dict of the currently pressed keys. (actually a dict of the states of all the keys, and the pressed ones mapping to True)

[meager marlin]

well the way you have it programmed right now, it's only going to detect KEYUP IF KEYDOWN is also being pressed lol

[limpid umbra]

i think i have it

i can move but the player is stuck

i dont know how to explain the bahavior that i see so ill use ppython code

valid_turn = [false, false, false, false]
direction = 0
if direction = 0:
  valid_turns = [false, true, true, false]
if direction = 1:
  valid_turns = [true, false, true, false]```

its allways the oppsite side

[meager marlin]

hey i gotta go to work, if you're still having trouble, you can DM me up around 3pm EST

[limpid umbra]

@ember pecan if im looking to the right then left is a valid_turn but if i look to the left then right is a valid_turn

[ember pecan]

hmm yeah because basically if you are moving to the right then you came from the left direction... similarly if you are going to the left, then you came from the right direction

[limpid umbra]

im looking left but i cant move there because valid_turns has left as False

im just stuck in place and can only move up

but i can rotate the player

[ember pecan]

hmm

wait

[limpid umbra]

something else is wrong with valid_turns

if you edit this line you can rotate but i dont know why you cant muve

[ember pecan]

I think the problem if with the constant num3... what it basically does, it allows us to move like a small distance within a tile which contains a block element... when I try to change it from 15 to 10 for example,,, as long that I'm moving I notice that I was able to change direction but if I'm stopped, it's no longer the case (not for all directions) hmm this seems weird... In fact I'm watching a tutorial on youtube... the problem is that he use different screen size and I uses different screen size so maybe this is affecting how the collision system works

[ember pecan]

anyone have an idea? 😭 If I changes the screen height to 950 and the value of 518 to 500, it works fine but the layout is too big for my screen

[dense sandal]

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