#🔒 for some reason, even when i define surface, and it draws, i still get a black screen
halcyon cloak
lets see
and the error
share with me the assets you have and ill run the code on my end
if the screen is black you are not updating the screen. thats all there is. and i have not read your code i have just went to the line where you have the error
share your code and assets you use so i can run the code on my machine
assets means the things you use for your game, images, sound, movies, music, etc
i have the code, but yes, i need the sprites as well, and anything else you use for assets
you share the images
you can use this channel
or github
names correct?
alright.. so inside your main game loop
you draw your screens background with white
agree @mossy radish ?
and i see that you alreayd have made your surface previous and called it screen so you dont need another copy of your display_surface
now you only need all_sprites.draw(screen)
instead
next, do you have a clock to manage your ingame timings?
do game logic
draw things on screen
update screen
use the clock to handle tick timings
these are the things you need to do
and most of the code is game logic but the three other things are important to see something on your screen
if you add the two missing parts, it will look like this
to your surface
you have already made it, you called it screen and you made it again when i asked about it, and called it display_surface
you can just use screen instead, you have already made it
the two parts you are missing is updating the screen/display, and use the clock to manage the tick timing
please add those changes and show me what you have... its all in the #Drawing part of your code
it is sensible to use white until you see it working
and change it later
what makes you think that is a good idea?
who is going to play your game? you or the computer?
alright.. so how fast do you think the computer is able to do the calculations you want?
lets say, your game needs to do 1_000_000 calculators, how fast can the computer do that?
no, a few milliseconds
so if you dont limit how fast the computer is, you will not be able to play the game, it will go to fast
yes
you need a clock to handle this, so you cant remove it, you have to use it
these are the things you need
if you dont have this, you will not be able to see anything on your screen
so add them please
let me know when you have, and share what you have done
no, i wrote them using human language, you can see that because its written in English and not in Python
reef parcel
so if you dont limit how fast the computer is, you will not be able to play the ...
a good example of this is a snake game - running it at 60 fps means you get instant key inputs, but the snake moves at 60x the speed (provided 1 tick every frame)
halcyon cloak
what part are you trying to add? update the display/screen?
because you have already drawn things to the screen right?
pygame.display.update() this is how you update the display after each time you have drawn things to it
and if you want to update the game 60 times pr second, you add clock.tick(60)
like so
show your code
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halcyon cloak
your not updating the display
and you have not removed the display_surface line, you dont need that when you already have screen created
in other worrds, this is not the same as I did and showed in code
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halcyon cloak
thats just incorrect game logic, you have to look into that yourself.. but now you have things on your screen?
there you go
what did you learn from this?
yes
and after you have drawn, what do you need to do actually see what you have drawn?
corect
good!
have a great day!
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