Getting the enemies to shoot at me in space shooter

[StevenBrixie]

Question:
Can you fix this code so the enemies shoot at me?

Current behavior:
The enemies go down the screen and won’t shoot.

Desired behavior
I want the enemies to shoot at me.

Repl link:
https://replit.com/@StevenBrixie/space-shooter-2

code snippet

[WindLother]

Try to modify the laser class to accept a direction:

class Laser:
    def __init__(self, x, y, img, direction=1):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        self.img = img
        self.direction = direction
        self.mask = pygame.mask.from_surface(self.img)

    def move(self, vel):
        self.y += vel * self.direction

And try to modify the shoot method of the Enemy class to adjust the starting position of the laser and set the direction to downwards:

def shoot(self):
    if self.cool_down_counter == 0:
        laser = Laser(self.x + self.get_width()//2 - self.laser_img.get_width()//2, self.y + self.get_height(), self.laser_img, direction=1)
        self.lasers.append(laser)
        self.cool_down_counter = 1

[StevenBrixie]

that didn’t work. any other suggestions?

[WindLother]

Hmmm.
I think that the shoot method of the Ship class does not consider the direction of the laser.

Try to modify the shoot method of the Ship class to accept a direction:

def shoot(self, direction=1):
    if self.cool_down_counter == 0:
        laser = Laser(self.x, self.y, self.laser_img, direction)
        self.lasers.append(laser)
        self.cool_down_counter = 1

And since we are changing one we need to modify the shoot method of the Enemy class to pass the correct direction:

def shoot(self):
    if self.cool_down_counter == 0:
        laser = Laser(self.x + self.get_width()//2 - self.laser_img.get_width()//2, self.y + self.get_height(), self.laser_img, direction=1)
        self.lasers.append(laser)
        self.cool_down_counter = 1

And don’t forget to modify the part where the player shoots to pass the correct direction:

if keys[pygame.K_SPACE]:
    player.shoot(direction=-1)

Try this and tell me if it works

[StevenBrixie]

thank you! it sorta’ worked.

[WindLother]

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