vid

[[tilevid]], [[isovid]], [[hexvid]] are all subclasses of this interface.

Includes support for:

Foreground Tiles
Background Tiles
Sprites
Sprite-Sprite Collision handling
Sprite-Tile Collision handling
Scrolling
Loading from PGU tile and sprite formats (optional)
Set rate FPS (optional)

This code was previously known as the King James Version (named after the Bible of the same name for historical reasons.)

Sprite

The object used for Sprites.

Sprite(ishape,pos)

ishape an image, or an image, rectstyle. The rectstyle will describe the shape of the image, used for collision detection.
pos initial (x,y) position of the Sprite.

Attributes

rect the current position of the Sprite
_rect the previous position of the Sprite
groups the groups the Sprite is in
agroups the groups the Sprite can hit in a collision
hit the handler for hits -- hit(g,s,a)
loop the loop handler, called once a frame

Sprite.setimage

Set the image of the Sprite.

Sprite.setimage(ishape)

ishape an image, or an image, rectstyle. The rectstyle will describe the shape of the image, used for collision detection.

Tile

Tile Object used by TileCollide.

Tile(image=None)

image an image for the Tile.

Attributes

agroups the groups the Tile can hit in a collision
hit the handler for hits -- hit(g,t,a)

Vid

An engine for rendering Sprites and Tiles.

Vid()

Attributes

sprites a list of the Sprites to be displayed. You may append and remove Sprites from it.
images a dict for images to be put in.
size the width, height in Tiles of the layers. Do not modify.
view a pygame.Rect of the viewed area. You may change .x, .y, etc to move the viewed area around.
bounds a pygame.Rect (set to None by default) that sets the bounds of the viewable area. Useful for setting certain borders as not viewable.
tlayer the foreground tiles layer
clayer the code layer (optional)
blayer the background tiles layer (optional)
groups a hash of group names to group values (32 groups max, as a tile/sprites membership in a group is determined by the bits in an integer)

Vid.resize

Resize the layers.

Vid.resize(size,bg=0)

size w,h in Tiles of the layers
bg set to 1 if you wish to use both a foreground layer and a background layer

Vid.set

Set a tile in the foreground to a value.

Use this method to set tiles in the foreground, as it will make sure the screen is updated with the change. Directly changing the tlayer will not guarantee updates unless you are using .paint()