Part 15: Changing the cannon balls to ball images

Since in Part 14, the rectangles around the circle sprites drawn was too big and the collision happened even though the rockets is far away and did not work, we shall change the circle sprites to football image or change the circle sprite to a normal circle object.

Now change the circles to ball images and detect the collision. On detecting the collision, make the ball disappear from the SCREEN. The changes are in BOLD.

Change the “Wall” class to this:

class Wall(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, image, x, y):
        pygame.sprite.Sprite.__init__(self)
        #Not required - tried for collision
        #screensurf = pygame.Surface([SCREENWIDTH, SCREENHEIGHT])

        self.image = pygame.image.load(image)
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
        self.rect.x = x
        self.rect.y = y

While creating walls, pass the image to load.

WALLNAME = 'football.png'

wall_group=pygame.sprite.Group()
for i in range(0, NOOFWALLS):
    wall = Wall(WALLNAME, random.randrange(XMIN, XMAX, 40), random.randrange(YMIN,YMAX, 20))
    wall_group.add(wall)

For collision before the update:

#sprite collide is for sprites in a group
    for circle in wall_group:
       if(rocket.rect.colliderect(circle.rect)):
            print("collision  :  " + str(id(circle)))
            wall_group.remove(circle)
            wall_group.draw(SCREEN)

Entire code:

#Import statements are to enable the code to use the functions from the library
import pygame
import sys
import os
import random


#instructions to windows to center the game window in the center of
#the screen, which it might ignore
os.environ["SDL_VIDEO_CENTERED"] = "1"

#initialize pygame
pygame.init()

#Right way
SCREENWIDTH = 500
SCREENHEIGHT = 500
SCREENSIZE = [SCREENWIDTH, SCREENHEIGHT]
SCREEN = pygame.display.set_mode(SCREENSIZE)

#caption for the game
pygame.display.set_caption("My first game in pygame")

ANGLE = 90
BLACK = (0,0,0)

#The rocket - the actor/sprite that moves with arrows/WASD
class Rocket(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, image, x, y):
        pygame.sprite.Sprite.__init__(self)
        self.image = pygame.image.load(image)
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
        self.rect.x = x
        self.rect.y = y
        #Horizontal
        #self.vertical = 1
    def draw_updatescreen(self):
        #Do it once
        #SCREEN.fill(BLACK)
        blitrocketrect = SCREEN.blit(self.image, (self.rect.x, self.rect.y))
        #pygame.display.update()
    def rotate(self, angle):
        self.image = pygame.transform.rotate(self.image, angle)
    def update(self, x, y):
        self.rect.x =  x
        self.rect.y =  y

#This group has only one sprite
X = 40
Y = 40
SPRITENAME = 'rocket.png'
rocket = Rocket(SPRITENAME, X, Y)

#uncomment - for drawing with sprite group
rocket_group = pygame.sprite.Group()
rocket_group.add(rocket)

#Do it once
#rocket.draw_updatescreen()
#rocket_group.draw(SCREEN)


ZEROINTENSITY = 0
MAXINTENSITY = 255
RADIUS = 20

#Getting the surface of the drawn circle and finding collisions is difficult
#hence will have to change it to an image
class Wall(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, image, x, y):
        pygame.sprite.Sprite.__init__(self)
        #Not required - tried for collision
        #screensurf = pygame.Surface([SCREENWIDTH, SCREENHEIGHT])

        self.image = pygame.image.load(image)
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
        self.rect.x = x
        self.rect.y = y
                

NOOFWALLS = 4
XMIN = 50
XMAX = SCREENWIDTH-100
YMIN = 50
YMAX = SCREENHEIGHT-100

WALLNAME = 'football.png'

wall_group=pygame.sprite.Group()
for i in range(0, NOOFWALLS):
    wall = Wall(WALLNAME, random.randrange(XMIN, XMAX, 40), random.randrange(YMIN,YMAX, 20))
    wall_group.add(wall)

#Do it once
#pygame.display.update()
#wall_group.draw(SCREEN)

while True:
    for events in pygame.event.get():
        if events.type == pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            sys.exit()
        if (events.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN):
            rocket.rotate(ANGLE)
            #Method 1
            #rocket.draw_updatescreen()
            #Method 2 - commented out
            rocket_group.draw(SCREEN)
            
    #Inside while, a single tab space from while
    user_input = pygame.key.get_pressed()
    if(user_input[pygame.K_UP]):
        Y=Y-1
        if(Y<0):Y=SCREENHEIGHT     elif(user_input[pygame.K_DOWN]):         Y=Y+1         if(Y>SCREENHEIGHT):Y=0
    elif(user_input[pygame.K_LEFT]):
        X=X-1
        if(X<0):X=SCREENWIDTH     elif(user_input[pygame.K_RIGHT]):         X=X+1         if(X>SCREENWIDTH):X=0

    SCREEN.fill(BLACK)
    wall_group.draw(SCREEN)
    
    rocket.update(X,Y)
    rocket.draw_updatescreen()
    #Method 2
    #rocket_group.draw(SCREEN)
    
    #sprite collide is for sprites in a group
    for circle in wall_group:
       if(rocket.rect.colliderect(circle.rect)):
            print("collision  :  " + str(id(circle)))
            wall_group.remove(circle)
            wall_group.draw(SCREEN)
            
    pygame.display.update()

Now, in addition, a Challenge, to revert to circles instead of footballs, let us change the “Wall” to a simple class instead of inheriting from “pygame.sprite.Sprite” as in Part 11.

Next challenge, when all the cannon balls have been destroyed, we need to end the game by displaying a game over screen.
All set? Ready? We have only three more parts to this tutorial.