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Help me find a way to make the lasers fire in a certain direction.
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Only the wrapping.
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width, height = ui.get_screen_size()
I think this is right. I did a seperate script where I print it out inside the console, and it worked. -
I tried placing it self.update, but then it wouldn’t work.
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from scene import * import math import random import sound import ui A = Action() width, height = ui.get_screen_size() #Setting up meteorites #Setting up background colour for the entire scene class Game(Scene): def setup(self): self.bg = SpriteNode('spc:BackgroundBlack') self.lasers = [] self.items = [] self.LaserTime = 0 self.frame_counter = 0 self.meteor = [] #Creating the player self.Player = SpriteNode('iow:arrow_up_b_32') self.Player.color = (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) self.Player.anchor_point = (0.5, 0.5) self.Player.x_scale = 2/1.0 self.Player.y_scale = 3/1.0 self.Player.position = (512, 400) self.Player.rotation = 0.0 self.add_child(self.Player) self.UpCrtl = SpriteNode('iow:arrow_up_b_32') self.UpCrtl.x_scale = 3.5/1.0 self.UpCrtl.y_scale = 3.5/1.0 self.UpCrtl.alpha = 0.5 self.UpCrtl.position = (175, 295) self.add_child(self.UpCrtl) self.RightCrtl = SpriteNode('iow:arrow_right_b_32') self.RightCrtl.x_scale = 3.5/1.0 self.RightCrtl.y_scale = 3.5/1.0 self.RightCrtl.alpha = 0.5 self.RightCrtl.position = (250, 212.5) self.add_child(self.RightCrtl) self.LeftCrtl = SpriteNode('iow:arrow_left_b_32') self.LeftCrtl.x_scale = 3.5/1.0 self.LeftCrtl.y_scale = 3.5/1.0 self.LeftCrtl.alpha = 0.5 self.LeftCrtl.position = (100, 212.5) self.add_child(self.LeftCrtl) #The button for shooting self.laserButton = SpriteNode('shp:Circle') self.laserButton.color = ('gray') self.laserButton.x_scale = 3/1 self.laserButton.y_scale = 3/1 self.add_child(self.laserButton) self.laserButton.position = (1000, 212.5) #The score label self.score_label = LabelNode(text='Score: 0') self.score_label.anchor_point = (0, 0) self.score_label.position = (10, 790) self.score_label.font = ('Joystix', 30) self.add_child(self.score_label) #Movement code. def update(self): self.handle_button_presses() self.move_lasers() self.update_lasers() self.spawn_meteor() width, height = ui.get_screen_size() self.LaserTime = self.LaserTime + 1 def handle_button_presses(self): rotationAdd = math.pi/180 self.Player.location = self.Player.position for touch in self.touches.values(): if touch.location in self.LeftCrtl.bbox: actions = [A.rotate_by(math.pi/180)] self.Player.rotation = self.Player.rotation + rotationAdd self.Player.run_action(A.sequence(actions)) if touch.location in self.RightCrtl.bbox: actions = [A.rotate_by(math.pi/-180)] self.Player.rotation = self.Player.rotation - rotationAdd self.Player.run_action(A.sequence(actions)) if touch.location in self.UpCrtl.bbox: direction = Vector2(-math.sin(self.Player.rotation), math.cos(self.Player.rotation)) self.Player.position += direction*3 self.Player.position.x %= width self.Player.position.y %= height def move_lasers(self): for touch in self.touches.values(): if touch.location in self.laserButton.bbox and self.LaserTime >= 15: #reset the time self.LaserTime = 0 new_laser = SpriteNode('shp:Circle') new_laser.x_scale = 0.3/1.0 new_laser.y_scale = 0.3/1.0 new_laser.position = self.Player.position new_laser.rotation = self.Player.rotation self.add_child(new_laser) self.lasers.append(new_laser) sound.play_effect('arcade:Laser_6') def update_lasers(self): for l in self.lasers: l.direction = Vector2(-math.sin(l.rotation), math.cos(l.rotation))*10 l.position += l.direction if l.position.x < 0: l.remove_from_parent() self.lasers.remove(l) if l.position.x > 1112: l.remove_from_parent() self.lasers.remove(l) if l.position.y < 0: l.remove_from_parent() self.lasers.remove(l) if l.position.y > 834: l.remove_from_parent() self.lasers.remove(l) def spawn_meteor(self): self.frame_counter = self.frame_counter + 1 if self.frame_counter >= 60: self.frame_counter = 0 new_meteor = SpriteNode('spc:MeteorGraySmall1') new_meteor.position = (random.randint(0, 1024), 834) self.add_child(new_meteor) self.meteor.append(new_meteor) for meteor in self.meteor: meteor.position = (meteor.position.x, meteor.position.y - 5) if meteor.position.y < - 100: meteor.remove_from_parent() self.meteor.remove(meteor) if __name__ == '__main__': run(Game(), LANDSCAPE, show_fps=True) -
So, (as is often the case...) I was wrong about how to do the wrap around when the player gets to the edge of the screen.
self.Player.position.x %= width self.Player.position.y %= height # must be changed to... self.Player.position = (self.Player.position.x % self.size.w, self.Player.position.y % self.size.h)This is because position is a
scene.Pointwhich is scene.Vector2 which behaves more like a tuple than a list.Also, you can safely delete all lines containing
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update_lasers()can be simplified...def update_lasers(self): for laser in self.lasers: laser.direction = Vector2(-math.sin(laser.rotation), math.cos(laser.rotation))*10 laser.position += laser.direction if laser.position not in self.bounds: # laser has gone off the screen laser.remove_from_parent() self.lasers.remove(laser) -
Also, it seems to me that you don't need both an Action that sets rotation and the actual assignment to rotation.. If you want to simulate acceleration, then you need to keep track of a velocity, and pressing the arrow button changes the velocity, and then the rotation is set by adding velocity.
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