With this code you can animate this png files (go here to download them).
How to animate in different actions a sprite in pygame. It could seem a little tricky, but with the help of a class and the superclass Sprite and the Group class, we can manage the animation quite nicely with Python and Pygame, in this episode of the serie for the making of a platform game in Python…
Put the extracted images in a folder called “png” in the folder where this code is.
Right order of the images
As the images that ends with 10, 11, 12 ecc. would be positioned after image 1 and before image 2, I used this ‘trick’ to load the images from 1 to 9 first, then images 10 to… in a second list, so that they were displayed in the right sequence, with this code:
im = glob.glob(f"png\\{action}*.png")
lenim = len(im[0])
self.images = [pygame.image.load(img) for img in glob.glob(f"png\\{action}*.png") if len(img) == lenim]
self.images2 = [pygame.image.load(img) for img in glob.glob(f"png\\{action}*.png") if len(img) > lenim]
self.images.extend(self.images2)
As you can see, I get the lenght of the first image (the one with the number 1) that is shorter than the ones with 10, 11… in the name. So I load these first and then the ones with the longer names. At the end I join them in one list of images with extend.
The whole code
import pygame
import glob
SIZE = WIDTH, HEIGHT = 600, 600 #the width and height of our screen
FPS = 20 #Frames per second
class MySprite(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
def __init__(self, action):
super(MySprite, self).__init__()
im = glob.glob(f"png\\{action}*.png")
lenim = len(im[0])
self.images = [pygame.image.load(img) for img in glob.glob(f"png\\{action}*.png") if len(img) == lenim]
self.images2 = [pygame.image.load(img) for img in glob.glob(f"png\\{action}*.png") if len(img) > lenim]
self.images.extend(self.images2)
self.index = 0
self.rect = pygame.Rect(5, 5, 150, 198)
def update(self):
if self.index >= len(self.images):
self.index = 0
self.image = self.images[self.index]
self.index += 1
def action(action):
my_sprite = MySprite(action)
my_group = pygame.sprite.Group(my_sprite)
return my_group
def main():
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(SIZE)
pygame.display.set_caption("Press i w r j d or arrows and space")
my_sprite = MySprite("idle")
my_group = pygame.sprite.Group(my_sprite)
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
loop = 1
while loop:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
loop = 0
if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
if event.key == pygame.K_w or event.key == pygame.K_LEFT:
my_group = action("walk")
if event.key == pygame.K_d:
my_group = action("dead")
if event.key == pygame.K_j or event.key == pygame.K_UP:
my_group = action("jump")
if event.key == pygame.K_i or event.key == pygame.K_SPACE:
my_group = action("idle")
if event.key == pygame.K_r or event.key == pygame.K_RIGHT:
my_group = action("run")
if event.key == pygame.K_d or event.key == pygame.K_DOWN:
my_group = action("dead")
my_group.update()
screen.fill((0,0,0))
my_group.draw(screen)
pygame.display.update()
clock.tick(FPS)
pygame.quit()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Live coding video about sprite animation in Pygame
A more efficient code… Use this one…
If you want to use the code to animate a sprite in a real game, you better use the following code:
This is the code
import pygame
import glob
SIZE = WIDTH, HEIGHT = 600, 600 #the width and height of our screen
FPS = 60 #Frames per second
def fps():
fr = "V. 2 Fps: " + str(int(clock.get_fps()))
frt = font.render(fr, 1, pygame.Color("coral"))
return frt
class MySprite(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
def __init__(self, action):
super(MySprite, self).__init__()
im = glob.glob(f"png\\{action}*.png")
lenim = len(im[0])
self.images = [pygame.image.load(img) for img in glob.glob(f"png\\{action}*.png") if len(img) == lenim]
self.images2 = [pygame.image.load(img) for img in glob.glob(f"png\\{action}*.png") if len(img) > lenim]
self.images.extend(self.images2)
self.index = 0
self.rect = pygame.Rect(5, 5, 150, 198)
def update(self):
if self.index >= len(self.images):
self.index = 0
self.image = self.images[self.index]
self.index += 1
def create_sprites():
idle = pygame.sprite.Group(MySprite("idle"))
walk = pygame.sprite.Group(MySprite("walk"))
run = pygame.sprite.Group(MySprite("run"))
jump = pygame.sprite.Group(MySprite("jump"))
dead = pygame.sprite.Group(MySprite("dead"))
return idle, walk, run, jump, dead
def main():
global clock
global font
pygame.init()
font = pygame.font.SysFont("Arial", 60)
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(SIZE)
pygame.display.set_caption("Game v.2")
idle, walk, run, jump, dead = create_sprites()
my_group = idle
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
loop = 1
while loop:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
loop = 0
if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
if event.key == pygame.K_LEFT: my_group = walk
if event.key == pygame.K_d: my_group = dead
if event.key == pygame.K_UP: my_group = jump
if event.key == pygame.K_SPACE: my_group = idle
if event.key == pygame.K_RIGHT: my_group = run
if event.key == pygame.K_DOWN: my_group = dead
my_group.update()
screen.fill((0,0,0))
my_group.draw(screen)
screen.blit(fps(), (10, 0))
pygame.display.update()
clock.tick(FPS)
pygame.quit()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
The video that shows wich code is better for animation (fps)
Pygame's Platform Game
