Re: [pygame] Possible to detect collision with an image?

2011-10-08 Thread Aaron Brady
In that example, you need to detect a collision with any one of two triangles or a circle, excluding the other two. That could be a useful function; it's not on the wiki. Is that enough information? Or, there are some strategies for only checking collisions with nearby objects, if you need an

[pygame] Possible to detect collision with an image?

2011-10-07 Thread Alec Bennett
I'm using an image with transparency as a Sprite. The image has an irregular shape: http://sinkingsensation.com/stuff/shape.png I'd like to detect collisions with it. My current strategy is to draw a polygon (pygame.draw.polygon) behind the image. That works, but its difficult to make the

Re: [pygame] Possible to detect collision with an image?

2011-10-07 Thread Florian Krause
Well, you could make the background of the image transparent and then create a mask fro the pygame surface. This one can be checked for collisions. Florian On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Alec Bennett wrybr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using an image with transparency as a Sprite. The image has