so I've been trying to create a basic particle system in pygame which I can later expand upon but I've run into a spot of bother creating the particle emitter. Obviously what's supposed to happen is it's supposed to create a new particle every frame (or a set of particles) but instead it just alters the particle that's created first time round. I understand why this is happening, as far as the game is concerned, every frame I add the same object to the particle list so when I call the update function it calculates the positional and velocity sums multiple times, what I'm having trouble with is fixing it. How would I go about making a new particle every time?
My existing classes for this are as follows:
class Particle():
def __init__(self, pos, vel, accel, image):
self.pos = pos
self.vel = vel
self.accel = accel
self.life = 255
self.lifecount = 1
self.image = image
def update(self):
self.vel.add(self.accel)
self.pos.add(self.vel)
self.life -= self.lifecount
def is_dead(self):
if self.life <= 0:
return True
else:
return False
class Emitter():
def __init__(self, pos):
self.pos = PVector(pos[0], pos[1])
self.particles = []
self.part_list = [Particle(self.pos, PVector(0,2), PVector(0,0), pygame.image.load("resources/particles/fireball.png"))]
def update(self):
self.particles.extend(self.part_list)
for p in self.particles[:]:
p.update()
if p.is_dead():
self.particles.remove(p)
def draw(self, surface):
for p in self.particles:
x = p.pos.x
y = p.pos.y
temp = pygame.Surface((p.image.get_width(), p.image.get_height())).convert()
temp.blit(surface, (-x, -y))
temp.blit(p.image, (0, 0))
temp.set_alpha(p.life)
surface.blit(temp, (x, y))
The positions, velocities and accelerations are all part of a vector class with vector math functions.
