Questions tagged [python]
Python is a dynamically and strongly typed programming language that encourages readability.
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Enemy A/MovementI in Pygame, idle and aggressive bosses
Working on my first project and I'm trying to get enemy movement sorted, the code below is my current implementation. The enemy using the distance between the player position (target.pos.x) and their ...
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Creating an engine using python [closed]
I want to create a game engine and later use it to create games in 8 bit style. I know I don't need to do this but I want to do it anyway. I got heavily inspired by The Cherno.
I'm just starting and ...
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How do I draw my particles when an enemy is killed?
I have enemies that move left and right.
I was wonder how I could make my particles show up when the enemy is killed?
Here is my particle class
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Rotating Cannon's Mouth Toward Player
I am trying to make my cannon mouth rotate towards player, but the rotation is messed up and up I don't know how to fix it.
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Implementing melee combat in pygame?
I've gone about 2 ways for implementing melee attacks however, bboth have major flaws, hoping someone has a simpler answer.
Method 1:
Creating a "projectile" that's using an image, then ...
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Problem With Enemy Bullets Attacking The Player Pygame
I am trying to make my enemy bullets attack the player but it only attack its x and y how could I make it curve instead of zigzagging VIDEO the bullets only attack the y axis and it wont curve or go ...
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python sockets: receive data only when data is available?
I am writing an update to a game I have written in python, and I am currently adding server support. I can't show you the main code (for the client), as it is hundreds of lines long. However, what I ...
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How to make planets “stay together” on collision
I working on a 2D planetary orbit simulator and I've encountered a problem regarding the collision of planets. Currently, here is what I have
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EndScreen Not Loading My Best Score And Current Score How To Fix?
I am trying to make my endscreen save last score and current score but it just appears as 0 for both everytime I die event he I picked up the coins image so basically it isnt saving my coins I had and ...
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Pygame End Screen Problem How To Fix?
Video as you can see there I am trying to make my end screen restart my game but whats happening is that its not restarting my game its just loading the same thing when I die >> how could I make it so ...
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Enemies Bullet Shooting At Player Problem How To Fix?
I am trying to make my enemies shoot at my player rect where ever the position the player is and when it collides with the rect it should remove the -1 health ***my problem is that when the enemy ...
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Problem WIth Enemies Bullets PyGame
I am trying to make my enemy shoot my player but for some reason the bullets arent showing nor they are shooting at the player I don't even know why, I even draw the bullets on my window VIDEO
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(Pygame) Bouncing projectile gets stuck at window edge, rapidly bouncing back and forth
I've just started developing with Pygame and I figured that as my first project I would try to bounce some Rect objects around. I saw a sample of a bouncing ball here, and when I copied the code and ...
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Pygame Tiled Map Object layer collision
I'm using pygame to make a top down shooter I've placed my tiles and object layers using Tiled Map Editor. My player and mobs collide with their spawn locations (object layer) is anyone able to help? ...
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Pygame Scrolling Bug With Enemys
I have a problem with my enemy where when my player scrolls left the enemy scrolls with the player is there anyway to fix this even Video my full code is below its to long to fit here though
what I ...
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How to call Python script in Unreal Blueprint and pass argument to it in Blueprint?
How to call Python script in Unreal Blueprint and pass argument to it in Blueprint? Would appreciate any advice.
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How do I debug OpenGL apps written in python?
How do I debug OpenGL apps written in python? I tried but I was unable to use standard tools like nvidia nsight or glsl-debugger or renderDoc on python code.
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Rock paper scissor Lizard spock
I have been trying to code R-P-S-L-SP game on my computer but it has another argument which makes things hard. I need to code the game inside of a maze! My problems starts where to use my classes and ...
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Player won't move correctly due to gravity force pushing him into the ground
I am making a tilemap platformer with pygame ad I defined the X and Y movement for the player and also a Y force that represents the gravity force to make it jump correctly. However, when my player ...
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Why doesn't my Pygame game scroll properly?
When I am clicking the arrow keys, in order to scroll my ground and my lucky block, I cant just press the key and it keeps on going scroll. So I need to press the key every second to get a kinda ...
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How do I make my level scroll side-to-side as the player moves?
I am trying to figure out how can I make a side-scrolling view in Pygame.
If I am moving right or left, I want the portion of the level shown on-screen to shift to follow the player character.
Here ...
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Why does collision only work sometimes when there are multiple objects in the game?
when i was making a pygame in python for the first time
i kinda have a problem where sometimes the player and the object would touch and the game would not close as intended i dint seem to find the ...
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How to map texture across whole face?
I'm trying to map a texture to a square face in OpenGL 3.2, but the texture gets tiled in the upper right corner. I've tried changing the uv coordinates, vertices and shaders, but nothing seems to ...
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the identifier “icon” is not declared in the current scope [duplicate]
(Sorry if i have spelling mistakes i am Bulgarian)
I have the problem that my "icon" isn't declared in the current scope.
i am trying to add an object (body, collisionshape, and a sprite)
this is ...
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how do i make it so you can hold down a key to keep moving
so I am trying to make my first working game and it is not working. There is no error message, it just does nothing. I want the box guy to move right or left when you hold down left or right arrow key,...
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How to add multiple floors to a map in a text-based game?
I decided to learn how to make games during this quarantine. I am reading Mission Python, a book that teaches how to make games using python and pygame. I'm halfway through it, but the game only has ...
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Moving Rect with KEYDOWN
I tried to move my obstacle with the event type KEYDOWN, but it seems it is not working.
This is my code.
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How to make controlled exchanges in an online-game?
There is an online game in which you can collect things of different values: ordinary, epic, legendary. The cheapest things are ordinary, the more expensive are epic, and the most expensive are ...
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Animating Game Objects at Different Speeds
I want to animate multiple game objects at different speeds in the context of Python Turtle Graphics, and I'm confused about my options.
One approach is to use separate timers for each object, as in ...
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Assigning a User a Class [Python]
I have a classes Mage and Warrior and I want them assigned to the user when they choose which class they are, How can i do that?
Here is my code,I don't know how much you need so I am sending it all....
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Is there a way to get relative center of a Rect object in pygame?
Now, suppose I always want to draw a circle at the center of a rect object, now, the problem is:
For example, if I do
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Why is my program “not responding” when I run it?
I'm trying to learn to code with python and while using pygame, I came across this: every time I run the window it says "not responding".
Specifically, it happens when I click to drag the window; the ...
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Avoiding Global Variables in Event Driven Programming
First off is "procedural event driven programming" a thing? My question is about global variables in the context of an event driven program that doesn't use OOP...
I have written a simple Snake game ...
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How can I remove a sprite from the screen using pygame?
I am having trouble with removing sprites on my screen using pygame.
I am killing my sprite with sword.kill which is removing it from an all_sprites group, so it should disappear right?
Here is ...
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How do a make a smooth animation with images of different sizes in pygame?
I have an animation where my player swings his sword, with 5 images in pygame. The normal resting image is 14x22, and the rest are 13x23, 21x23, 18x23, and 18x23. I am having trouble with my character ...
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Box collisions between vehicles in traffic pattern
I'm working on a traffic simulator. Right now, I have ways to manage 4-way stop intersections and a solution for efficiently determining which vehicles are colliding with one another. All vehicles ...
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pygame multiple collisions between two objects
Ok, so I have been trying to figure out how to set this up and can't get it working properly. I'm trying to get the functionality similar to the moving logs in the game Frogger if you are familiar ...
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Attempting to have a group of units create random values independently in python 3 for a salvage loot system
I am working on creating a salvage mechanic for my game. I want different units to calculate salvage after an encounter to randomly determine how much each one was able to scavenge from fallen allies ...
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How to convert screen to world coordinates while using gluLookAt / gluPerspective or similar matrix transforms?
I am just starting an adventure in looking under the hood of graphics for a game project I've been working on for a while, and I could use some guidance.
I am using Python/Kivy (though that is not ...
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Interactive map designer
I've made a simple game in pygame/pymunk. Currently my maps consists of lists with functions, e.g
ground_segments = [ground(position, size, shape...), ...]
I ...
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Procedural generation for a text adventure game [duplicate]
I'm working on a text adventure game written in Python and I am at the point where I need to implement procedural generation for the map. As the user moves around, spots are generated, so the entire ...
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How can I add biomes to my generated world?
I need a way to generate a world realistically. I want to generate worlds similar to dwarf fortress.
My current code for world generation is this:
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Collisons with rock and player(spaceship)
I'm trying to make when the rock hits the spaceship or player it should decrease the health from the health bar but when I run it, it doesn't work. The rock decreases the health randomly. How can I ...
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Procedural dungeon generation
Im making a rouge like game, and I need a better way of generating a dungeon. My requirements for a dungeon must be:
Have multiple rooms and corridors
All rooms and corridors must be accessible
My ...
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MMO Chat system methods
I'm working on a little MMO game as a learning experience, the server coded in Python.
When a player logs in it pulls their character data from a SQL db and into server memory. It then uses memory ...
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Collision detection / physics for simple game
I am currently working on a mini game for class (first time doing something like this) and I don't really know how to start with collision detection at all. The game I'm creating is a top down sumo ...
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Unexpected behavior of bodies affected by gravity in 2D
I have a simple code that calculates the acceleration of a body every update of my simulation using the Newton's law of universal gravitation and the second law of motion.
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Python path finding
Im making a dungeon crawler in python, and I want to make it so that a certain enemy (only 1) will chase you through the dungeon
the map is stored like this:
[
['0','0', '0'],
['0','0', '0']
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Libnoise bounding box - from spherical to planar
I'm trying to convert a bounding box inside a spherical map (equirectangular image as a result of Libnoise/c++) into a planar projection, but I can't find the correct algorithm for it and I'm not good ...
