Re: [pygame] Working with maps

[Kenny Meyer <knny.myer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Timothy Baldock (tb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> http://www.pygame.org/project-pyTile-871-.html
> 
> This is the game engine I was working on, the code in question is in
> the tools.py file, e.g. collide_locate() function of the Tool
> object, which uses the MouseSprite object as the "invisible" sprite.
> You pass in a sprite group to test against and the cursor position.
> 
> def collide_locate(self, mousepos, collideagainst):
>     """Locates the sprite(s) that the mouse position intersects with"""
>     # Draw mouseSprite at cursor position
>     if self.mouseSprite:
>         self.mouseSprite.sprite.update(mousepos)
>     else:
>         self.mouseSprite = pygame.sprite.GroupSingle(
> MouseSprite(mousepos))
>     # Find sprites that the mouseSprite intersects with
>     collision_list1 = pygame.sprite.spritecollide(
> self.mouseSprite.sprite, collideagainst, False)
>     if collision_list1:
>         collision_list = pygame.sprite.spritecollide(
> self.mouseSprite.sprite, collision_list1, False, pygame.sprite.collide_mask)
>         if collision_list:
>             collision_list.reverse()
>             for t in collision_list:
>                 if t.exclude == False:
>                     return t
>             return None
>         else:
>             # No collision means nothing to select
>             return None
>     else:
>         return None

Very useful!

Thank you!

-- 
  Regards,
  Kenny Meyer