Event handling and threads: Event handling and threads
I just started using python and pygame so my knowledge is slightly limited. I have started programming a game and already have a basic underlying set of objects and game system. WHat I am doing in my...
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You have described results! The causes may be different: Use hardware acceleration flag pygame.HWSURFACE | pygame.DOUBLEBUF when creating display surface: pygame.display.set_mode((width,height),...
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Oh And I've forget to tell you that for simple games with 2D graphic only there is no need to use threads. Low performance mens bad configuration or wrong sprites/group classes used or using...
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Im sorry my questions are a bit noob :P.Thats why I thought id post it here so i dont bother people with proper problems and you seem to know alot. Thanks for the quick reply.I have set the hardware...
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i didnt call event.pump() sigh,im such an idiot
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Also you can consider to use timers to set good FPS rate. event.pump() should be used if You use non standard event functions, e.g. you check every key if is pressed rather that wait for events. Also...
View Articleimages and blitting: images and blitting
Hi, I'm new so bear with me. I am putting together a game called "flyswat" which has flies crawling over the screen, and a swatter you use to hit them. Now I have these questions. 1. I have images for...
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Just to follow up, would it make sense to use surfarray? I could load the surface pixels into a 2D array and manipulate these values..
View Articlesprites on sprites: sprites on sprites
How do I insure that moving sprites are on top of non-moving sprites. Currently, some moving sprites go over non-moving and some go under.
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Fixed - the solution is to blit pieces of background rectangles into the background, THEN move all the sprites and then re-blit them in their new positions.
View Articlesprites on sprites: Re: sprites on sprites
Solution is fairly simple! And it give more flexibility. Sort your sprites according to "depth". By depth I mean "distance" to viewer. Eg. You want your "static" sprites to be in background, and...
View Articlestupid pygame import - something not ok...: stupid pygame import - something...
See this code (understand why I commented out first line): from OpenGL.GL import * from OpenGL.GL import glEnable, GL_DEPTH_TEST, glShadeModel, GL_SMOOTH, glClearColor, GL_CULL_FACE, GL_BLEND,...
View ArticlePygame OpenGL: Pygame OpenGL
How to use opengl in a pygame app, without using the 3D library OpenGL because the app is in 2D?? I tried to put an object to appear in my opengl app pygame, but the error: "pygame.error: Cannot blit...
View ArticleRotating a sprite with pygame: Rotating a sprite with pygame
Hi, I've just started using Python/Pygame as a hobby. I've gotten the code to draw my Plane.png and move it using the wsad keys, and I mapped the q and e keys to rotate it which it does, but each time...
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