🔒 Working out best options for loading sprites and handling rects in solitaire.

[slender pine]

As with my previous posts, (sorry if im filling up the list too much) I'm working on solitaire and other card games to get a toolkit made for when I use pygame. I am trying to figure out the best way to load sprites, and I wanna get into using the built in Sprite class in pygame, but I am unsure of an effective way on how to get everything organized. I am working with a CMV model. All my card sprites are 2 character strings for the face up stuff, and My last iteration of the code used a dict just for the upfacing stuff and just single vars for the extra stuff. I feel like at least having pygame's sprite class figured out will streamline my work on this and other games I plan to figure out how to make

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@slender pine

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[slender pine]

here's the view code so far

import pygame
import os
import solitaireModel as model

# Base resolution
baseWidth = 1100
baseHeight = 800

# Layout constants
tableauYOffset = 25
tableauXOffset = 105

bgColor = (0, 90, 0)

stockPos = [25, 25]
wastePos = [135, 25] # fanning for 3 cards adds 2 * 25 or 50 px

tableauStartX = 345
tableauY = 25

foundationPosList = [
    [25, 470],   # Hearts
    [25, 635],   # Diamonds
    [150, 470],  # Spades
    [150, 635]   # Clubs
]

images = []

# Setup
pygame.init()
game = model.Game()

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((baseWidth, baseHeight), pygame.RESIZABLE)
pygame.display.set_caption("Solitaire")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

# Sprite loader
currentDir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
baseDir = os.path.dirname(currentDir) # Games file
os.chdir(baseDir)
spritesDir = os.path.join(baseDir, "Card Sprites")

print(baseDir)
print(spritesDir)

def createDeck(): # Sprite booter, scales sprites down for ease of use with smaller window
    for filename in os.listdir(spritesDir):
        sprite = pygame.image.load(os.path.join(spritesDir, filename))
        sprite = pygame.transform.smoothscale_by(sprite, 0.8) # 80% scale
        images.append(sprite)

createDeck()

running = True

while running:
    screen.fill([0, 90, 0])
    screen.blit(images[4], [25, 25])
    screen.blit(images[4], [135, 25])
    screen.blit(images[4], [160, 25])
    screen.blit(images[4], [185, 25])

    screen.blit(images[61], [25, 175])

    screen.blit(images[4], [25, 485])
    screen.blit(images[4], [25, 635])
    screen.blit(images[4], [135, 485])
    screen.blit(images[4], [135, 635])

    pygame.display.flip()

    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False

I had some responses talking about like hashing to link the sprites to the objects but I'm trying to make a good starting OOP program and I'm not too familiar with straight hashing stuff

had to backtrack to an older version to make sure I'm maintaining scale stuff

Basically how can I use pygame’s sprite class effectively? I know it has like functions to get the rects of stuff but I don’t know how to check for intersecting rects how I need to.

The images in the running chunk were put by me to test spacing

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@slender pine

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