Check if 2 Hitboxes\Rectangles overlap in Pygame

Question

I have to hit boxes around my characters in a scrolling game, one around a zombie, and one around a ninja. They both follow the player and that is find, right now I need to find out how to check if they overlap, to check for collision.

I've read a few other stack overflow questions about this topic and the answers don't seem to be what I'm looking for. Any help would be appreciated. THANKS!!!

Here is a smaller version of my code:

class ninja(object):
    def __init__(self, x, y, ninjawidth, ninjaheight):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        self.ninjaheight = ninjaheight
        self.ninjawidth = ninjawidth
        self.hitbox = (self.x + 10, self.y + 10, self.ninjaheight - 10, self.ninjawidth - 10)
    def draw(self):
        mainninja.hitbox = (mainninja.x + 10, mainninja.y + 10, mainninja.ninjaheight - 15, mainninja.ninjawidth - 10)
        pygame.draw.rect(win, (255,0,0), mainninja.hitbox,2) #here is the hitbox


class zombie(object):
    def __init__(self, zombiewidth, zombieheight):
        self.x = winwidth
        self.y = 391
        self.height = zombieheight
        self.width = zombiewidth
    def draw(self):
        self.hitbox = (zombie.x + 55, zombie.y + 35, zombie.width - 55, zombie.height - 45)
        pygame.draw.rect(win, (255,0,0), zombie.hitbox, 2) #here is other hitbox


mainninja = ninja(60, 400, 192, 192)
zombie = zombie(192, 192)

I just want a code or function to put in main loop to check for collision between zombie and ninja hit boxes.

read about [pygame Rect](https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/rect.html). It has all the functionalities you need — Valentino, Jul 25 '19 at 20:03

Rabbid76 · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-25T20:17:07.363

Use a pygame.Rect object for the .hitbox attributes.
Note you should use the self attribute in the methods of the class rather than the global namespace variables mainninja and zombie:

class ninja(object):
    def __init__(self, x, y, ninjawidth, ninjaheight):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        self.ninjaheight = ninjaheight
        self.ninjawidth = ninjawidth
        self.hitbox = pygame.Rect(self.x + 10, self.y + 10, self.ninjaheight - 10, self.ninjawidth - 10)
    def draw(self):
        mainninja.hitbox = pygame.Rect(self.x + 10, self.y + 10, self.ninjaheight - 15, self.ninjawidth - 10)
        pygame.draw.rect(win, (255,0,0), mainninja.hitbox,2) #here is the hitbox


class zombie(object):
    def __init__(self, zombiewidth, zombieheight):
        self.x = winwidth
        self.y = 391
        self.height = zombieheight
        self.width = zombiewidth
        self.hitbox = pygame.Rect(self.x + 55, self.y + 35, self.width - 55, self.height - 45)
    def draw(self):
        self.hitbox = pygame.Rect(self.x + 55, self.y + 35, self.width - 55, self.height - 45)
        pygame.draw.rect(win, (255,0,0), self.hitbox, 2) #here is other hitbox

mainninja = ninja(60, 400, 192, 192)
zombie = zombie(192, 192)

Then you can use .colliderect() to check for a collision:

if mainninja.hitbox.colliderect(zombie.hitbox):
    # [...]

This seems exactly what i'm looking for, but when I run this i'm getting the error: AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'colliderect' Do you know why this is happening? Thanks for answer though. — Andrew The Python Coder, Jul 25 '19 at 22:18
@AndrewThePythonCoder Do you set the attribute `.hitbox` somewhere else in the program? It hast be always a `pygame.Rect` object! — Rabbid76, Jul 26 '19 at 04:36

Check if 2 Hitboxes\Rectangles overlap in Pygame

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