I remind you that you can use pygame 2 dev 8 with python 3.8. Go to this post to see how.
The “well written” code
Now, in my intentions, you can understand what the code does just reading the functions and methos names.
# Pygame first gamet - tutorial 4 import pygame as pg import sys from glob import glob class Sprite(pg.sprite.Sprite): def __init__(self, pw, ph, action): "loads all the image that starts with 'action' in position pw, ph" super().__init__() self.pw = pw self.ph = ph self.current = 0 self.countframe = 0 self.action = action self.order_images() self.position_sprite() def order_images(self): "take the list of images (load_images()) and order them" lst = self.load_images() img = [f for f in lst if len(f) == len(lst[0])] img.extend([f for f in lst if len(f) != len(lst[0])]) self.sprites = [pg.image.load(x) for x in img] self.image = self.sprites[self.current] def load_images(self): "Load images that starts with action" folder = "cat\\" lst = glob(f"{folder}{self.action}*") return lst def position_sprite(self): self.rect = self.image.get_rect() self.rect.topleft = [self.pw, self.ph] def update(self): "This animate the sprite, it is called in the while loop by th update(sprite) function" self.countframe += 1 # the more is the number the more the animation is slow if self.countframe == 16: # restart the counter self.countframe = 0 # The new animation image is flipped after 4 frames self.current += 1 # check if the images of the animations are ended if self.current >= len(self.sprites): # if so it goes back to the initial image self.current = 0 # and now it shows the next image or the initial one self.image = self.sprites[self.current] def update(sprite): sprite.draw(screen) sprite.update() def window(title): "Create the screen + title and the clock object for the frame" screen = pg.display.set_mode((400, 300)) pg.display.set_caption(title) return screen, pg.time.Clock() def quitbutton(): "Look for the key events" global loop for event in pg.event.get(): if event.type == pg.QUIT: loop = 0 def clear_screen(): screen.fill((0, 64, 128)) def refresh_screen(): pg.display.flip() clock.tick(60) def show_sprites(): "Iterate all the sprites in the dsprites" for s in dsprites: g.add(dsprites[s]) update(g) # ============== FRAME RATE FUNCTIONS ===== def create_fonts(font_sizes_list): "Creates different fonts with one list" fonts = [] for size in font_sizes_list: fonts.append( pg.font.SysFont("Arial", size)) return fonts def render(fnt, what, color, where): "Renders the fonts as passed from display_fps" text_to_show = fnt.render(what, 1, pg.Color(color)) screen.blit(text_to_show, where) def display_fps(): "Data that will be rendered and blitted in _display" render( fonts[0], what=str(round(clock.get_fps(), 1)), color="white", where=(0, 0)) # put this after pygame.init() or pg.init() # fonts = create_fonts([32, 16, 14, 8]) # ==== END ==== # def update_screen(): "The while loop updates" quitbutton() clear_screen() display_fps() show_sprites() refresh_screen() # All the sprites that are updated in update_screen => show_sprites dsprites = { "pwalk": Sprite(50, 30, "Walk"), "prun": Sprite(200, 70, "Run"), "pjump": Sprite(150, 150, "Jump"), } pg.init() g = pg.sprite.Group() fonts = create_fonts([32, 16, 14, 8]) screen, clock = window("Game") loop = 1 # ============== Where everything happens while loop: update_screen() # ======================== engine end === pg.quit() sys.exit()
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