Ursina update function within class

Question

In a project I am working on, I have multiple classes in which I wish to each have an update function when an object is created. How do I get these update functions to run every frame? i.e for this example code, how do I get both class a and b to run update functions?

from ursina import *
app = Ursina()

class a:
    def update(self):
        print("a updating")

class b:
    def update(self):
        print("b updating")

a = a()
b = b()

app.run()

At the moment neither function gets run. Any help is appreciated

Every time a object gets created the `__init__` method is called. So you can do some initalization there. — Mushroomator, Mar 21 '22 at 22:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '22 at 13:04

For update to run automatically it has to be on an Entity. Simply inherit Entity like this:

class A(Entity):
    def update(self):
        print('update')

The way this works is that when you instantiate an Entity, ursina will add it to a list (scene.entities). Every frame ursina will loop through that list and call entity.update() if that entity has a method named update

Ursina update function within class

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