pygame_movement_and_motion.md

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Motion and movement

Related Stack Overflow questions:

• How to move Sprite in Pygame
  

  📁 Minimal example - Move sprite

• how to teleport player to the other side of the screen when he touches the screen border?
  

• make multiple objects automatically move for how many objects have been specified in pygame
  

• Is it possible to use simple rotation matrices to simulate circular orbits in pygame?
  

• Implementing smooth motion in 2d space in Pygame
  

• Pygame smooth movement

• How do I make smooth movement + rotation in pygame?
  

• How to make a realistic 2D player movement (jump, fluidity…)

• How to change my ball direction by clicking keys in pygame?
  

  📁 Minimal example - Change direction smoothly

• moving with a normalized vector in pygame inconsistent?
  

  📁 Minimal example - Move rectangle diagonal

Move and rotate

Related Stack Overflow questions:

• How to turn the sprite in pygame while moving with the keys
  

  📁 Minimal example - Car movement

  repl.it/@Rabbid76/PyGame-CarMovement

• Move Character with Vector
  

• Image rotation while moving
  

• How do I move to the mouse pointer and point towards it at the same time?
  

• The car moves and changes direction when it hits the window edge
  

  📁 Minimal example - Car movement

  repl.it/@Rabbid76/PyGame-CarMovement

• How do I gently change the direction of movement when moving forward?
  

  📁 Minimal example - Car movement

• Rotation of a sprite on a circle
  

  📁 Minimal example - Rotate on circle

• Why it doesn't spin in a circle? And how to fix it?
  

  📁 Minimal example - Spin in a circle

• Ship moves up and left faster than down and right when rotating in pygame
  

  📁 Minimal example - Spin in a circle 2

• how to make rotate polygon on key in pygame?
  

  📁 Minimal example - Rotated polygon

• Bullet movement not working as expected when player sprite is moving
  

• pygame maintain a points position around a rotated image
  

• How do I make a sprite rotate around another moving sprite?
  

  📁 Minimal example - Orbit around moving object

Rotate and collide

• rotating player around center works but collisions with walls don't anymore
  

Move along path

Related Stack Overflow questions:

• how can i increase my enemy position every second in pygame
  how can i increase my enemy position every second in pygame

• Is it possible to implement gradual movement of an object to given coordinates in Pygame?
  

• How to make a circle move diagonally from corner to corner in pygame
  

• How to move the object in squared path repeatedly?
  

• Pygame Enemys Wont Move Down - Tower Defense Game

• How to animate the position of an object or sprite in Pygame and move it towards predefined positions or along a defined path?
  

📁 Minimal example - Move along path

📁 Minimal example - Move sprite along path

Move in grid

Related Stack Overflow questions:

• How do I move the player smoothly in a tile based game?
  

  📁 Minimal example - Move smoothly in grid

Throw

Related Stack Overflow questions:

• Pygame- rotate sprite and follow path simultaneously
  

  📁 Minimal example - Throw ball

Slide

Related Stack Overflow questions:

• How to fix character constantly accelerating in both directions after deceleration Pygame?
  

  📁 Minimal example - Slide and bounce

• Acceleration and Deceleration in pygame
  

• Python ball acceleration pygame
  

• Pygame game help: Easing/Acceleration
  

• Collision detection / physics for simple game
  

  📁 Minimal example - Slide and bounce

Jump

See Jump

Gravity

Related Stack Overflow questions:

• Making falling objects in pygame
  

  📁 Minimal example - falling objects

• How to correctly update the grid in falling sand simulation?
  

  📁 Minimal example - falling sand

• How do you properly implement gravity to a free floating space object and some sort of friction when thrusting in opposite direction

• Pygame Bouncy Ball Sinks Through Floor
  

• Pygame Curve Movement Problem How To Fix?
  

  📁 Minimal example - Gravitational force

• How to fix Type Error in Pygame: TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +=: 'int' and 'pygame.math.Vector2'
  

Particles

Related Stack Overflow questions:

• Projectile motion and gravity in pygame only sometimes working
  

  📁 Minimal example - Particle explosion

Physics

Related Stack Overflow questions:

• Pygame sprites overlapping issue

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• Pygame object instance speed increases
  Python Pygame Making a ball push another ball

  📁 Minimal example - Follow player

Animation

• Trouble with explosion animation Pygame
  

  📁 Minimal example - Timed animation