#🔒 Need help randomizing pipes for a flappy bird game.

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past halo
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So, i started a new project with pygame : recreate flappy bird. My main goals for this project are trying to get better at using classes in my code, and figuring out how to setup a scrolling in a game.
The thing is i am kind of stuck when it comes to generating pipes randomly, but still controlling the RNG with a max gap value between each pipes for example. if you guys could share hints on how to do this, it would help a lot. Let me know if you need code samples.

torpid axleBOT
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wicked rover
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You can do change of height

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like, between -100px to +100px

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and then only take those who is inbound

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and pick the change of height from the filtered range

dense viper
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You could generate one random pipe first, then make the second pipe based off of that to keep the gap at a range you want

midnight obsidian
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Generate randomly the height of the bottom pipe within a range
Generate randomly the gap within a range
Generate the height of the top pip by using the height of the bottom, the gap and the heigt of the screen

past halo
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So i do two different classes : one for bottom pipe and one for the upper one that follows the bottom, right ??

midnight obsidian
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For example, let's say you want all pipes to be at least 100 height, and the gap to be between 200 - 300 pixels
Assuming the height of the screen is 1000
(you can change all these values for your case)

bottom_height = randint(100, 600) # replace 600 by 1000 - min_height - max_gap
gap = randint(200, 300) # or simply gap = 250
top_height = 1000 - bottoom_height - gap

midnight obsidian
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Then you either have 2 classes or one class with a flag specifying top or bottom

wicked rover
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You need random between the top and bottom? I thought it was constant

midnight obsidian
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I think in the original game it's constant

past halo
midnight obsidian
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it doesn't matter much for the discussion anyway

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It will probably be easier to have 2 classes

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