Here is what I managed to achieve on my hangover weekend:
- Extracted all original sprites from Warcraft 2 with a little help of wargus tool.
- Learned how to replace default unit colors into other color
- Flipped some frames for left faced animations
These are common challenges when working with warcraft2 assets.
Lounch: py main.py, use arrow keys to walk and spacebar to attack.
I'm looking forward to add terrain and some nice Map class if I ll ever have free time.
Game module contains for the moment:
Sprite class, to work with sprite frames without headache, Object class (I might rename it to Unit later) and Scene class to which units are added and which also runs a game.
And this is footman:
class Footman(Object):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.sprite = Sprite('./assets/sprites/footman.png',
width=72,
height=72,
vertical=True,
replace=((208, 212), (209, 213), (210, 214), (211, 215)),
speed=10)
self.sprite.add('walk_up', cell=1, row=2, count=4)
self.sprite.add('walk_down', cell=5, row=2, count=4)
self.sprite.add('walk_right', cell=3, row=2, count=4)
self.sprite.add('walk_left', cell=3, row=2, count=4, flip=(True, False))
self.sprite.add('walk_rightup', cell=2, row=2, count=4)
self.sprite.add('walk_rightdown', cell=4, row=2, count=4)
self.sprite.add('walk_leftup', cell=2, row=2, count=4, flip=(True, False))
self.sprite.add('walk_leftdown', cell=4, row=2, count=4, flip=(True, False))
self.sprite.add('stand_up', cell=1, row=1, count=1)
self.sprite.add('stand_down', cell=5, row=1, count=1)
self.sprite.add('stand_right', cell=3, row=1, count=1)
self.sprite.add('stand_left', cell=3, row=1, count=1, flip=(True, False))
self.sprite.add('stand_rightup', cell=2, row=1, count=1)
self.sprite.add('stand_rightdown', cell=4, row=1, count=1)
self.sprite.add('stand_leftup', cell=2, row=1, count=1, flip=(True, False))
self.sprite.add('stand_leftdown', cell=4, row=1, count=1, flip=(True, False))
self.sprite.add('attack_up', cell=1, row=6, count=4)
self.sprite.add('attack_down', cell=5, row=6, count=4)
self.sprite.add('attack_right', cell=3, row=6, count=4)
self.sprite.add('attack_left', cell=3, row=6, count=4, flip=(True, False))
self.sprite.add('attack_rightup', cell=2, row=6, count=4)
self.sprite.add('attack_rightdown', cell=4, row=6, count=4)
self.sprite.add('attack_leftup', cell=2, row=6, count=4, flip=(True, False))
self.sprite.add('attack_leftdown', cell=4, row=6, count=4, flip=(True, False))
self.anim = 'stand_down'
self.x = 0
self.y = 0
self.width = 180
self.height = 180
self.vertical = 'down'
self.horizontal = ''
self.speed = 5
self.mode = 'stand'
def update(self, delta):
self.next(delta)
x = 0
y = 0
if self.key(pygame.K_UP):
y = -1
self.vertical = 'up'
elif self.key(pygame.K_DOWN):
y = 1
self.vertical = 'down'
elif self.key(pygame.K_RIGHT) or self.key(pygame.K_LEFT):
self.vertical = ''
if self.key(pygame.K_LEFT):
x = -1
self.horizontal = 'left'
elif self.key(pygame.K_RIGHT):
x = 1
self.horizontal = 'right'
elif self.key(pygame.K_UP) or self.key(pygame.K_DOWN):
self.horizontal = ''
if self.vertical == '' and self.horizontal == '':
self.vertical = 'down'
if self.key(pygame.K_SPACE):
self.mode = 'attack'
elif x != 0 or y != 0:
self.mode = 'walk'
else:
self.mode = 'stand'
if self.mode == 'walk':
self.play('walk_'+self.horizontal+self.vertical)
self.move(x*delta/self.speed, y*delta/self.speed)
elif self.mode == 'attack':
self.play('attack_'+self.horizontal+self.vertical)
else:
self.play('stand_'+self.horizontal+self.vertical)On day 2 I made Action class it is like a task for a unit which changes unit properties in time or by speed, than I made little hogs which are known as critters in Warcraft and assigned random movement Actions. FPS dropped to 200 while having 1000 hogs on screen. I was almost happy because I had Sprite, Unit and Actions it was time for a Map.
Map is not easy because first I needed a toool in which I could create a map and than import into game. After a little research it seems Tiled Map Editor returns a file in which in an one dimensional array I get map data, in which every element is a tile number from tileset. Of course that was enough and I tested displaying fixed size map. But I messed up a little with creating tilesets in Editor and also map rendering dropped fps again:
