🔒 Handling rotations and movements in snake project

[frail epoch]

Hi everyone, i'm new to python and programming in general, so i'm trying to do a basic snake game with pygame, but i can't handle correctly a few things :

• first of all, making the parts (body and tail) of my snake folllow the head,
• and making the sprites of my snake rotate parts by parts when the player takes a turn.
  (i don't know what's wrong exactly so i'll send a screenshot of the part of my code where i program binds and movement)

[shell forge]

@frail epoch

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[frail epoch]

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[proven plover]

do u know classes

[frail epoch]

nope

[proven plover]

i imagine player here is the head body is the rest of snake and tail is the end of it ?

[frail epoch]

yep exactly

[proven plover]

so how u handling multiple body segments ? to me it seems u only handling 1

[frail epoch]

i wrote this but i think it doesn't work as intended

player_img = pygame.image.load("Python/#3 snake/head_up.png")
player_img = pygame.transform.scale(player_img, (32, 32))
player_x = screen_width // 2 - player_img.get_width() // 2
player_y = screen_height // 2 - player_img.get_height() // 2

# Initialisation corps du serpent et redimensionnement
body_img = pygame.image.load("Python/#3 snake/body_vertical.png")
body_img = pygame.transform.scale(body_img, (32, 32))
body_x = player_x + player_img
body_y = player_y + body_img.get_height()

# initialisation de la queue du serpent
tail_img = pygame.image.load("Python/#3 snake/tail_down.png")
tail_img = pygame.transform.scale(tail_img, (32, 32))
tail_x = body_x
tail_y = body_y + tail_img.get_height()```

it just positions the snake correctly when the game is booting but honestly i'm completely lost when it comes to how to make the parts follow each other when a key is pressed

[proven plover]

algorithm is something along lines of get head position -> store it for later -> calculate new head position -> set head to new position -> set body position to old head position

[frail epoch]

thank you so much for that, i'll do some research about classes and use this algorythm

[proven plover]

classes arent that complex but its def something u should learn if u want to do games

[frail epoch]

i'll leave this post open and hit you up if i'm still stuck somewhere.

[shell forge]

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