🔒 tower defence game

[keen birch]

how do i code my game so once i press down on a tower it highlights them and selects them (showing the menu and details etc)

[wraith kayak]

@keen birch

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[flat prism]

Can you show us some of the code you already have?

[wraith kayak]

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[flat prism]

Is a Gunman a tower? Or is that a separate thing?

Assuming I'm understanding it correctly and Gunman is your tower class... You could add:

    def select(self):
        self.selected = True
        
    def deselect(self):
        self.selected = False

to them.

and also implement 'draw' directly on them, like

def draw(self, surface):
  surface.blit(self.image, self.rect)
  if self.selected:
     # make another surface and draw a circle or whatever you want

and where you have gunman_group.draw(...) in main, instead call that new draw() directly on them:

for gunman in gunman_group:
    gunman.draw(screen1)

In your main loop where you check for events, you can then look for event.type == pg.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN and event.button == 1 (I think that's right, double-check the docs on me maybe) and call gunman.select() on whichever Gunman they clicked on

I'm a pygame noob myself, still learning it; maybe someone will come along with a more-elegant approach

pseudocode for what I'm describing, since I don't want to just write it for you...

When mouse is clicked:
    If click is on UI buttons:
        # Existing UI logic
    Else if placing a tower:
        # Existing tower placement
    Else:
        # Tower selection logic
        Deselect all towers
        For each tower:
            If click position is on this tower:
                Select this tower
                Break

[keen birch]

okay cheers

[wraith kayak]

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