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Collision detection between image layers and shapes
How can I efficiently detect collision between image layers and generated shapes?
I need a fast and comprehensive method to detect collision between rotatable image layers and generated shapes.
So ...
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How to divide sprite into smaller parts in pygame?
No i don't ask about spritesheets.
I'm working on simple game in pygame and I want to know is it possible to divide sprite into parts like head, body,leg,... to use it in collision-detection with ...
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Detecting Rectangle collision with a Circle
I have a Circle with a center point (Center_X, Center_Y) and I am detecting if a rectangle falls into it's Radius (Radius). How would I be able to perform this task? I have tried using
if (X - ...
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Problems displaying a textbox when character collides with an NPC
I'm having a problem displaying a textbox to the screen when my character's collision box collides with that of a certain NPC's collision box.
This first section of code is part of the module file I ...
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Trouble with collisions of sprites and images in a dictionary
I've been trying to make a theoretically simple game in pygame for awhile. I'm having problems with the collision of the animated player sprite and the unanimated other sprites. I tried using animated ...
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Differentiating between sprites in collision
I am creating a program similar to the classic "astrocrash" game, but there are multiple types of ammunition, each only affecting a specific type of target. The method self.overlapping_sprites() will ...
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Collision Detection With 'jump/not smooth'' movement
my problem with the code is that i created a sprite that is able to move a tile each time when an arrow key is pressed, the problem is when the sprite moves onto a tile that has a wall on it, it still ...
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Detecting collision in python and tkinter
I have following setup: I have an archer who can shoot arrows, which are always new instances of the class arrow and I have an instance of the class blackMonster. My Question is whether it is even ...
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pygame extending sprite class collision issues
I am designing a tower defense style game in pygame. The next step for me is to detect collisions between "bullet" objects and "enemy" objects. Both objects extend pygame.sprite.Sprite, and work fine ...
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How to tell if two sprites are actually colliding and not just “touching” in pygame
Trying to make a basic platformer and having trouble understanding how to detect collisions and deal with the Sprite superclass. I was learning from a more turn-based ish game, and they were using ...
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How to check which object my character is colliding with?
I am working on collision detection for a game, so that if the character runs into an object they stop moving. As part of my solution for this, I have made two functions that iterate through a list ...
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Why am I unable to iterate through objects to check for collision
I'm trying to make a game where you can move a character around screen and I had it so that if my character ran into a picture of a tree, the character would stop moving. After getting this to work, ...
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Simple collision detection accuracy
I have a problem with collision detection precision. Collision is not detected properly because of updating ball with delta time, my code looks like following:
That is a part of my ball class:
class ...
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Pygame collision detect with PNG and rect?
I did recently ask this question, however I only got one answer and it didn't really explain enough for me. I need to check for a collision between two objects. One is a PNG image loaded in the ...
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Pygame collision detect with object and rect
Yep, I'm asking another question about this program :D
Anyway, I currently have the a prgram that creates two lines on the screen with a gap in between them and that can scroll. From here, I ...
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Detect if a cube and a cone intersect each other?
Consider two geometrical objects in 3D:
a cube aligned with the axes and defined by the position of its center and its extent (edge length)
a cone not aligned with the axes and defined by the ...
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How's this for collision detection?
I have to write a collide method inside a Rectangle class that takes another Rectangle object as a parameter and returns True if it collides with the rectangle performing the method and False if it ...
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python collision detection resolution circular dependencies
I'm working on a simple game in python (which I'm fairly new to as a language) using pygame and it seems as though python really hates circular dependencies (although I'm aware there are ways around ...
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Pygame collision detection less frequent when objects are increased
I currently experiencing an issue in pygame where whenever i increase the number of objects e.g. platforms, rocks
for a in range(150):
rock = Rock(0,0)
OR incresing the range which they spawn ...
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Weird collision detection with Snake Game
I am experiencing a weird collision detection bug that I am failing to find. I am building a small snake game, and as tradition goes, I need the snake to die when he collides with himself. So I told ...
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Circle and line collision detection in python tkinter
I writing a python program in which a circle bounces off of user drawn lines. There are multiple circles that bounce off the wall. For each one, the shortest distance from the center of the circle and ...
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Pygame Sprites doesn't detect collision
I've made a start menu and a menu screen. The start screen has a single Button Sprite. After clicking, it creates the correction animation then goes to menu screen as expected. However, this menu ...
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Get the pixels which are colliding with the Surface
Right now, I have a collision detection in pygame which checks if two rctangles overlap or not...what I am trying to do is check the transparency of a the surface and if the alpha value is less then ...
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PyGame Collision Detection - Platformer Freezing
I've written up a platformer with some healthy referencing to various sources. The ultimate idea of my platformer is to be able to traverse lines that you draw with your mouse. Unfortunately, I ...
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Pygame - Collisions With Floor/Walls
Hello I am currently making a survival shooter but cannot find any way on how to do my collisions! I am trying to make the player collide with the floors but with no success. Here is an image of the ...
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Get coords of GL_QUAD for collision detection?
I have a GL_QUAD which is basically a big field that the player is able to walk on. However, I want the player to have the abilty to 'jump,' meaning when he returns to his original y position he must ...
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Platformer Collision in Pygame
I was trying to write a platformer in Pygame, but for the past few weeks I've been stuck on the collision detection between the hero and the platform. Here are my classes:
class Platform(object):
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Pygame image collisions leaves gaps between images visually
Here I am freezing the two images as soon as they collide. The lollipop starts from the top left and the bear starts from bottom right. They collide in the middle. My positions tell me that they are ...
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Loop through collision detection with multiple processes
I'm using python to write an ideal gas simulator, and right now the collision detection is the most intensive part of the program. At the moment though, I'm only using one of my 8 cores. (I'm using ...
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Can't get Pygame Collision detection to work
I'm using Pygame and Python 3.2 to make a game. I must find out how to use collision detection so the player (ballpic) can pick up the items.
Here is my code:
from pygame import * #import pygame
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Weird bug in pygame
Hi there I am currently working on a side on-platformer.
I am experiencing a weird issue when I jump from one platform and to another it works fine. However whenever I jump from one and hit the ...
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Pygame Collision Detection: AttributeError
I've been banging my head against this for a while. I am trying to make a game with PyGame and I got up to the collision segment and have been stuck for a while and have checked a few threads.
This ...
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Detecting collision when rotating
I have a chain of squares represented in pygame. I have some code that lets me rotate parts of the chain, as follows.
#!/usr/bin/python
import pygame
def draw(square):
(x,y) = square
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Pygame collision detection
So I am trying to create a puzzle platformer game with Python and Pygame, but I'm having a little bit of trouble. How do I make a collision detecter when I am using a blitted image for the main ...
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Getting collision detection in Pygames
I am writing a game in Pygame, I want to get collision detection.
The aim is when a object hits another, the target object disappears. I want to avoid having classes and just have my code class less ...
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Add collision detection to a plattformer in pygame
I'm working on a small platformer game in which you place blocks to make a level, then play it.
I got gravity, jumping, and left and right movement.. but I am not sure how to make the player collide ...
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Making sprites bounce off of each other
To download the code, follow the link:
Background:
So I've been going through pygame tutorials since I'm new to it and I found Eli Bendersky's well-known tutorial. I was going through part one and ...
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Pygame - Getting a rectangle for a dynamically drawn object
I am writing a simple Pygame tutorial for an upcoming book and I am sort of blocked in this issue here. I have two classes, a ball (bola) and a paddle (raquete). The ball sprite comes from an image ...
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How to assign object independent collision detection
I'm trying to get ball objects on the canvas to collide, and move appropriately. I have some extra movement vars that are not important for my question, but I'd like to keep them the way they are. My ...
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Pygame Collision on Rect
I'm a student in Computer Programming at my high school and really need help to make the square an obstacle that ships can't enter and bullets disappear once you shoot at the square also for the ...
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Pygame Sprite can jump but can't walk
I've been working through this online tutorial on Pygame (Python Version 3.3.1), and have come to a point where my sprite can jump, but can walk only a few pixels in either direction. I'd really like ...
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Testing for pygame sprite collision
I have been going through some pygame tutorials, and I have developed my own code based off of these tutorials. It is as follows:
#!/usr/bin/python
import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *
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Python | Pygame | Sprite Collisions
We are making a game in in which a player walks down the street and shoots multiple enemies (robots). We have created a bullet sprite that shoots every time key <D> or the <RIGHT_ARROW> ...
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Separating Axis Theorem in Python/Pyglet
I'm trying to make a (sort-of) clone of Asteroids in Python using Pyglet. I figured I'd try to get a little fancy and implement the separating axis theorem to do collision. I got it to work, but the ...
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Collision in pygame
I'm trying to add collision into my game but have run into a problem.
The collision works fine horizontally without gravity, it stops where it should and all that, but when I add gravity it freaks ...
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how does collide.rect work in pygame
I'm having some trouble understanding how colliderect works with sprites. I have a good idea about it, but whenever I try to implement it into my game, I just get the error message ...
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Pygame - Entity movement limitations - collison detection
Ok so I have an entity that walks back and forth between two positions that right now are pixel locations shown below:
if self.rect.left == 96:
self.right_dis = False
if ...
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How do I set collision detection for Pong in Pygame
I am building a Pong clone in Pygame. I can't figure out how to add collision detection to the ball and paddles so the ball will bounce off the paddles. How can I do this? How can I have the ball ...
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Python billiards collision response some angle problems with my formula
This is my collision response code for a billiards simulation of 2 moving balls colliding. I used newton's laws of equation and then parametrised the components of the velocity vectors,
Alpha is the ...
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Pygame Collison Detection
MY PROBLEM:
At the point I'm at in my game I want to add a couple features like double jumps, wall jumps, etc.
However I've run into a problem with my collision detection and I can't seem to ...
