Creating and Moving Rectangles In Pygame - Beginner Tutorial

[@chigstardan7285]

Just stumbled on your channel, it's way too underrated and deserves more views and subscribers!

[@CodingWithRuss]

Thanks! :)

[@Sirbozo]

ye

[@falkerhard]

Thank you for this. It is better than any python book I have read so far.

[@CodingWithRuss]

Glad you found it useful!

[@joshuabarqueesimeth4530]

obviously, since any python book wouldn't be teaching you about the library pygame, unless you buy a pygame book.

[@mej0berr]

ive been stuck on rectangles for the whole day thank you very much

[@CodingWithRuss]

Glad it helped :)

[@angelhc4757]

your videos gives me an epic beginning for videogames! you're a hero :,)

[@CodingWithRuss]

Thanks, glad the videos help :)

[@yourboizach9681]

Absolutely brilliant man, your pygame tutorials are hard carrying me right now haha.

[@CodingWithRuss]

Glad I could help!

[@mariamsalim894]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial it helped a lot. However, how can I make the rectangle transparent because I have an image bg and not a color bg. I only want to see the soldier.

[@CodingWithRuss]

In this case you wouldn't need to draw the rectangle with pygame.draw.rect. You can miss that out and the rectangle won't be visible but it will still be there to be used for collision and positioning.

[@CodingWithRuss]

For the source code used in this tutorial, head over to my website: www.codingwithruss.com/pygame/working-with-rectangles-in-pygame/

[@Thrawien]

Can you code character movement controlled by a mouse click in pygame? Like what would be used in a point and click adventure? Ive looked around for guides but I’ve struggled to understand the answers in stackoverflow as im a relative beginner

[@CodingWithRuss]

That's a good idea, I hadn't actually tried that before although I have made elements of that separately (aiming at the mouse and taking mouse input) before so should be something I could combine. I'll add it to the list of video topics and see if I can put together a tutorial for something like that, but it may be a little while yet as I've got a few other tutorials I'm working on already.

[@Thrawien]

@@CodingWithRuss that would be incredible. Ive really enjoyed your tutorials you have a great way of explaining things. Especially to beginners like me! I feel like I can try to do a couple of practice projects now. Finally put my pixel art to use!

[@LoganadoLakings]

What is the difference between pygame.display.flip() and pygame.display.update()

[@CodingWithRuss]

There's very little difference in most applications. Check out the docs for a detailed explanation of how .update differs from .flip: www.pygame.org/docs/ref/display.html#pygame.display.update

[@LoganadoLakings]

@@CodingWithRuss Oh ok makes sense now thank you

[@firej19]

I know it's a little bit after the video was uplaoded, but should I use classes or rectangles?

[@CodingWithRuss]

You can use both, it depends on the application. If it is just a rectangle to use for visual purposes then a rect is fine, but if you want to use it in a game as a character or an object that has movement and collision etc then it would be better to use a class and put a rectangle inside the class.

[@firej19]

@CodingWithRuss Great thank you so much

[@leorachid41]

Great job

[@CodingWithRuss]

Thanks :)

[@RakloRakloRaklo]

Hi, I don't know if you're still answering those, but is it possible to change the size of the rectangle after it has already been drawn, such as when I press a certain button?

[@sdjukfoisdhfuoishdfjsdoifjksdj]

possible. just change the hight or width.

[@ajeetsn240]

you can by update

[@carl6402]

Hey can i ask why is my player/character is duplicating when i moved. Or am i shouldn't delete the pygame.draw.rect first? (btw i have background on it)

[@TToastedG]

Did you put pygame.display.flip() at the end of your loop?

[@carl6402]

@@TToastedG yes i did

[@ImWatchinYou]

Why attach the image to the rect instead of just controlling the image location directly?

[@CodingWithRuss]

It's ok to position the image directly for simpler applications but generally you will be relying on the rectangle for collision checks as well, so drawing the image over it allows you to do that.

[@KtheSoulmate]

Thanks from Algeria

[@joshuabarqueesimeth4530]

what is the point of saying rect_1 instead of rect1, it wastes time to type a _

[@joshuabarqueesimeth4530]

and you don't need to type == true when checking for a key pressed, the if statement itself checks for true already, if you want to check for false, you say if not key[pygame.key].