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Georgi Georgiev
Georgi Georgiev

Reputation: 1623

Pygame sprites timer

I need to make a list of sprites, each of which should have some kind of a timer, so it can perform an action on its own ( like shooting every 10 sec for example). But they will be created and added new ones at a different time, so each of them should has its own timer. I know how to make list of sprites, but I don't know how to attach a timer to each of them or something like that. Can someone help me?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 348

Answers (1)

matsjoyce
matsjoyce

Reputation: 5844

You could add the timer as an attribute of the sprites:

class Sprite:
    def __init__(self, ...):
        self.timer = pygame.Clock()
        # ...
    # ...

Or (make sure there is no member already called timer):

for sprite in sprites:
    sprite.timer = pygame.Clock()

Or you could change your list into a list of tuples, containing a sprite and a timer:

sprites = [(sprite, pygame.Clock()) for sprite in sprites]

This will make a list with the format:

[(sprite, timer), (sprite, timer), ...]

You can then access the sprite and timer:

sprite = sprites[0][0]  # first sprite
timer = sprites[0][1]  # first timer

Or:

sprite, timer = sprites[0]  # first pair

You could also have a dictionary of {sprite: timer}, and then access the timer for a sprite with sprite_to_timer[sprite].

Note: Replace pygame.Clock by what ever timer you want to use

Upvotes: 3

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