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How to create timers in pygame efficiently?

I want to spawn an enemy every (some number) seconds, say 5. I could do: start_time = pygame.time.get_ticks() if pygame.time.get_ticks() - start_time >= (some number): spawn_enemy() But there's one problem with that: when I change the FPS…
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I made velocity changing to make dash but want to add here some dash-lenght limit

so I made my character(player) to change its velocity faster if I press 'L shift' while pressing 'left key' or 'right key' at the same time. The problem is, I wanna make this 'dash' to stop when it reached to the limit I set. I want my character not…
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Facing lag in pygame while using pygame.time.delay()

I'm building a Hangman game as my first Pygame project. Once the game ends, I want the screen to pause for a second and then display a result message for a few seconds, before exiting the game. I have the following function for that: def…
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How to provide set of predefined instructions in pygame

I am new to pygame and not a regular coder. I am trying to wright a pygame code which accepts set of instructions from a text box and then move the image accordingly. eg: When you execute the code the pygame window will open with a textbox & primary…
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Pygame snake velocity too high when the fps above 15

I am having a hard time figuring the physics of speed in this snake game I made using pygame. The issue is that as soon as I set the fps to be above 15, the snake's speed increases as well. I know that this has to do with milliseconds etc which I…
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How to rotate Element around pivot point in pygame?

I am trying to rotate an element (in my case font) in pygame around a pivot point my code is as follows: import pygame, time pygame.init() display_width = 800 display_height = 800 window =…
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Pygame suddenly lagging after adding a bit of code, but why?

I have a game I made with Pygame and I added a "small" update to where a sprite changes to another sprite for 80ms when pressing space, this makes the whole game lag (not just when pressing space but all the time). Can anyone help? :) Here is SOME…
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drawing loop inside update loop (per second)

My code simplified: Clock.tick(UPS): #updates per second game.update() for frame in range(FPU) #frames per update game.draw(frame) What it should do is that every second there should be a number of updates equal to UPS value. After…
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Pygame - Run event for 3 seconds only once

I am fairly new to PyGame and I am creating a space shooter game. Part of this game are powerups and when a specific powerup is picked up by the player, I want the player not to be able to shoot for 3 seconds. Shooting is done by mouse click. I can…
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My pygame timer keeps resetting after I hit a target in my aim game

I am trying to make an aim game where a target pops up and once the player clicks on it, the target vanishes and a new one appears in a random location, I want it so that there is a 10 second timer but it keeps going back to 10 each time a target is…
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How do I reset pygame.time.Clock()?

I made a sudoku game for my introduction to computer programming class and I want to expand it over Winter break by adding some new features. The first of which I want to be a clock. I found some code on here that helped me implement a clock system…
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How to periodically spawn objects in Pygame

elif x1 == foodx2 and y1 == foody2: foodx2 = round(random.randrange(0, dis_width - snake_block) / 10.0) * 10.0 foody2 = round(random.randrange(0, dis_height - snake_block) / 10.0) * 10.0 Length_of_snake += 2 this is the code…
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Score system based on a timer doesn't work in Pygame

So, me and a few friends are working on a Python Project for school and we want to implement a score system in which the score gets bigger every few seconds. We have already searched the web for possible solutions, but we couldn't find anything that…
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Is there any relation between fps and how fast a surfaces moves on the screen?

Here is an example code: import pygame import sys pygame.init() screen = pygame.display.set_mode((1000, 500)) clock = pygame.time.Clock() square = pygame.Surface((350, 350)) square.fill((0, 0, 0)) x_pos = 1000 while True: screen.fill((255,…
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Pygame low frame rate but waiting on input instantly

I want to create simple game in python with pygame. There are some buttons, but it doesnt respond sometimes. I want to have low frame rate because its simple game but also i want to have buttons waiting on click like always. is it posible? Its like…
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