I'm currently trying to get my aliens to have a random chance to drop powerups when they are destroyed. I seem to have the basic structure and logic figure out, but I'm running into an error.
When an alien is hit and it DOES spawn a power up, my game crashes and I'm greeted with an error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/austintesch/Documents/GitHub/alien_invasion/alien_invasion.py", line 358, in <module>
ai.run_game()
File "/Users/austintesch/Documents/GitHub/alien_invasion/alien_invasion.py", line 52, in run_game
self._update_bullets()
File "/Users/austintesch/Documents/GitHub/alien_invasion/alien_invasion.py", line 153, in _update_bullets
self._check_bullet_alien_collisions()
File "/Users/austintesch/Documents/GitHub/alien_invasion/alien_invasion.py", line 168, in _check_bullet_alien_collisions
pow = Pow(aliens.rect.center)
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'rect'
I'm still pretty new to coding in general so I'm not sure how to go about fixing this, as to my understanding this should work, but there is clearly something simple I'm missing here.
class AlienInvasion:
"""Overall class to manage game assets and behavior."""
def __init__(self):
"""Initlize the game, and create game resources."""
pygame.init()
self.settings = Settings()
self.screen = pygame.display.set_mode((0, 0), pygame.FULLSCREEN)
self.settings.screen_width = self.screen.get_rect().width
self.settings.screen_height = self.screen.get_rect().height
pygame.display.set_caption("Alien Invasion")
self.stats = GameStats(self)
self.sb = Scoreboard(self)
self.ship = Ship(self)
self.walls = Wall(self)
self.wall_direction = self.settings.wall_speed
self._create_groups()
self._create_fleet()
self._create_buttons()
def _check_bullet_alien_collisions(self):
"""respond to bullet-alien collisions"""
collisions = pygame.sprite.groupcollide(
self.bullets, self.aliens, True, True
)
if collisions:
for aliens in collisions.values():
self.stats.score += self.settings.alien_points * len(aliens)
self.sb.prep_score()
self.sb.check_high_score()
#Here is where I'm getting the error.
if random.random() > 0.9:
pow = Pow(aliens.rect.center)
self.powerups.add(pow)
if not self.aliens:
self.bullets.empty()
self._create_fleet()
self.settings.increse_speed()
self.stats.level += 1
self.sb.prep_level()
def _update_screen(self):
"""Update images on screen and flip to the new screen."""
#fill our background with our bg_color
self.screen.fill(self.settings.bg_color)
# draw scoreboard to screen
self.sb.show_score()
#draw ship to screen
self.ship.blitme()
for bullet in self.bullets.sprites():
bullet.draw_bullet()
self.alien_bombs.update()
self.alien_bombs.draw(self.screen)
self.aliens.draw(self.screen)
self.powerups.update()
if self.stats.game_active and self.stats.level >= 5:
self.walls.draw_wall()
self.walls.update(self.wall_direction)
self.check_wall_edges()
self._check_wall_collosions()
# draw play button if game is inactive
if not self.stats.game_active:
if self.stats.level == 1:
self.play_button.draw_button()
elif not self.stats.ships_left:
self.game_over_button.draw_button()
pygame.mouse.set_visible(True)
elif self.stats.ships_left != 0:
self.continue_button.draw_button()
#Make the most recently drawn screen visible.
#this clears our previous screen and updates it to a new one
#this gives our programe smooth movemnt
pygame.display.flip()
powerups.py
"""attempt to make aliens drop powerups when killed"""
import random
import pygame
from pygame.sprite import Sprite
class Pow(Sprite):
def __init__(self, center):
super().__init__()
self.type = random.choice(['shield', 'gun'])
self.image = powerup_images[self.type]
self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
self.rect.center = center
self.speedy = 2
def update(self):
self.rect.y += self.speedy
if self.rect.top >= self.settings.screen_height:
self.kill()
powerup_images = {'shield': pygame.image.load('images/shield.bmp')}
powerup_images['gun'] = pygame.image.load ('images/gun.bmp')
