Re: [pygame] On walking animations...

[Jake b <ninmonkeys@xxxxxxxxx>]

You have the right idea.

You save all of the walking frames onto a single image. Ie: 32x32 pixel frames, with 4 frames would be 128x32.

Then when you draw your sprite, you use a source Rect() to blit one frame.

# pseudo-code 
def draw():        
    w,h = 32, 32
    # give example values for current frame, and player loc.
    frame = 2 # for 4 frames, it will be 0 to 3
    x,y = (50,50)
    
    dest = Rect(x,y,w,h)

    source = Rect( frame*32, 0, w, h )

    screen.blit( sprite, dest, source )

You can use subsurf [ http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/surface.html#Surface.subsurface ] But I found it easier to set source_rect with tilesets.

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Jake