Re: [pygame] my first game (so far)
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:50:36 -0700 Lenard Lindstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I wondered about is that changing the direction the sprite faces also makes it moving ahead one square. This functions how I would like. If the player is facing right, pressing left will face and move left IF there is a place to move. If left of the player is blocked, it won't move, but will still switch to face the sprite left.
Re: [pygame] my first game (so far)
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:53:23 -0700 Patrick Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Michael, I think you are making a great start with this, and the code looks very clean and well designed. Scrolling the screen can be tricky if you have never done it before, but it is not too complicated. Thanks :) I appreciate the explanation and examples of how to scroll the screen. I'm going to try at it tonight.
Re: [pygame] my first game (so far)
ill have to look at it again tonight see if the controls are on my end (maybe ill also load it up on my ubuntu partition...), anyone else try this in vista? i have had 2 very odd keyboard control issues in some non pygame games before, but 2 out of the hundreds ive played on vista isn't very many. but it may be a hardware or driver issue somewhere on my end and vista. great start though, ill be excited to see it when its more done. Devon --- Michael Fiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Devon Scott-Tunkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I liked the weird american idol like menu song and the tiles look pretty cool in the graphics file. When I first ran it and tried to select new game I got a pygame.error: music not loaded for the pygame.mixer.music.play in scene.py (line 28). i commented it out and it started (as i haven't worked with sound yet in pygame myself to try and fix it and am just starting oop too). then i was in a field of all grass with really wonky controls that would sometimes not allow me to walk in certain directions. i am using python 2.5 pygame 1.7 and windows vista. But hey at least the guy animates nicely and does something! Devon Thanks, though the graphics and sounds are just place-holders for nowdefinitely not the final versions. As for the music error, this is because I was trying to save space with the archive on my web server and created a symlink for the menu music to the scene musicwhich now that I think about shouldn't work on non-nix systems :) As for the wonky controls, that I cannot explain. The player can move all over the viewable area (no scrolling yet [help?]) for me. Anyone else want to try it on Vista, or other versions of Windows, or other OS's? It seems to work fine on Linux with pygame 1.7.1 and python 2.5. Anyway, I'm glad you like it so far. I'm quite happy with the result so far myself being my first OOP/game project and all. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
Re: [pygame] my first game (so far)
From: Devon Scott-Tunkin anyone else try this in vista? I'm running it in vista, and I did notice the character stop moving a few times - usually after pressing another key (shift etc). I was trying to find the run key, hehe - Character moves a bit slow. There may be something wrong in the event handler where it loses the event, which happens more often on your computer than on mine.
Re: [pygame] my first game (so far)
Hey, I liked the weird american idol like menu song and the tiles look pretty cool in the graphics file. When I first ran it and tried to select new game I got a pygame.error: music not loaded for the pygame.mixer.music.play in scene.py (line 28). i commented it out and it started (as i haven't worked with sound yet in pygame myself to try and fix it and am just starting oop too). then i was in a field of all grass with really wonky controls that would sometimes not allow me to walk in certain directions. i am using python 2.5 pygame 1.7 and windows vista. But hey at least the guy animates nicely and does something! Devon --- Michael Fiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. First, I would like to thank this list, and the #pygame channel for all the help so far in writing my first game, which is going to be a 2D RPG. Thank you so much! I started writing my first game January 1st, and I have a long way to go, but I figured I would post my progress so far and maybe get some suggestions for improvement, or maybe my code can somehow help someone else, so here it is: http://onyx.yi.org/sites/onyx.yi.org/files/test.tar_.bz2 I am currently having difficulties figuring out how I can adapt what I have so far to scroll the world when the player moves near the edges of the screen. If you have any ideas, any help would be appreciated. Well, enjoy the code..or don't enjoy it. I actually expect a lot of criticism. I'm new to OOP and game design. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
Re: [pygame] my first game (so far)
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Devon Scott-Tunkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I liked the weird american idol like menu song and the tiles look pretty cool in the graphics file. When I first ran it and tried to select new game I got a pygame.error: music not loaded for the pygame.mixer.music.play in scene.py (line 28). i commented it out and it started (as i haven't worked with sound yet in pygame myself to try and fix it and am just starting oop too). then i was in a field of all grass with really wonky controls that would sometimes not allow me to walk in certain directions. i am using python 2.5 pygame 1.7 and windows vista. But hey at least the guy animates nicely and does something! Devon Thanks, though the graphics and sounds are just place-holders for nowdefinitely not the final versions. As for the music error, this is because I was trying to save space with the archive on my web server and created a symlink for the menu music to the scene musicwhich now that I think about shouldn't work on non-nix systems :) As for the wonky controls, that I cannot explain. The player can move all over the viewable area (no scrolling yet [help?]) for me. Anyone else want to try it on Vista, or other versions of Windows, or other OS's? It seems to work fine on Linux with pygame 1.7.1 and python 2.5. Anyway, I'm glad you like it so far. I'm quite happy with the result so far myself being my first OOP/game project and all.
Re: [pygame] my first game (so far)
Michael Fiano wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Devon Scott-Tunkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, [snip] then i was in a field of all grass with really wonky controls that would sometimes not allow me to walk in certain directions. Thanks, though the graphics and sounds are just place-holders for nowdefinitely not the final versions. As for the music error, this is because I was trying to save space with the archive on my web server and created a symlink for the menu music to the scene musicwhich now that I think about shouldn't work on non-nix systems :) As for the wonky controls, that I cannot explain. The player can move all over the viewable area (no scrolling yet [help?]) for me. Anyone else want to try it on Vista, or other versions of Windows, or other OS's? It seems to work fine on Linux with pygame 1.7.1 and python 2.5. Anyway, I'm glad you like it so far. I'm quite happy with the result so far myself being my first OOP/game project and all. I tried it with Pygame 1.8 on an older Windows and it works fine. No problems with the arrow keys that I could find. The only thing I wondered about is that changing the direction the sprite faces also makes it moving ahead one square. -- Lenard Lindstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [pygame] my first game (so far)
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Lenard Lindstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: problems with the arrow keys that I could find. The only thing I wondered about is that changing the direction the sprite faces also makes it moving ahead one square. Most rpgs I know of work this way, so Michael is working within the standard. Although maybe the standard is not so good :) To Michael, I think you are making a great start with this, and the code looks very clean and well designed. Scrolling the screen can be tricky if you have never done it before, but it is not too complicated. The biggest loss with screen scrolling is that (at least if you are smooth scrolling) dirty rects basically go out the window - the entire screen becomes the dirty rect when it is scrolling. The main idea, is to have a camera offset value, and then every time you draw you subtract that value from the x and y of what you are drawing. This way, most of your code doesn't have to be changed, as you are working with the same coordinates for everything. The only code that has to change are the blits. screen.blit(image,[x,y]) becomes screen.blit(image,[x-cam_x,y-cam_y]) Test this step of the code, before you worry about scrolling, by setting the cam_x and cam_y to different values. Once you have this, you can detect where the player is going to be drawn (player pos minus camera offset) to determine if the screen should be scrolled. Here's some pseudo code for that: screen_x = player_x - cam_x screen_y = player_y - cam_y screen.blit(player,[screen_x,screen_y] if screen_x(screen_width-100): cam_x+=scroll_speed if screen_x100: cam_x-=scroll_speed if screen_y(screen_height-100): cam_y+=scroll_speed if screen_y100: cam_y-=scroll_speed Then, the camera will scroll when the player is 100 pixels from any screen edge. This is of course not directly applied to your project, but you should be able to figure it out. I hope to see more of this project in the future. The world can never have too many rpgs :)
[pygame] my first game (so far)
Hi all. First, I would like to thank this list, and the #pygame channel for all the help so far in writing my first game, which is going to be a 2D RPG. Thank you so much! I started writing my first game January 1st, and I have a long way to go, but I figured I would post my progress so far and maybe get some suggestions for improvement, or maybe my code can somehow help someone else, so here it is: http://onyx.yi.org/sites/onyx.yi.org/files/test.tar_.bz2 I am currently having difficulties figuring out how I can adapt what I have so far to scroll the world when the player moves near the edges of the screen. If you have any ideas, any help would be appreciated. Well, enjoy the code..or don't enjoy it. I actually expect a lot of criticism. I'm new to OOP and game design.
