You don't need to do that. rect.inflate already preserves the center. The question is more about how to use a separate rect for hitbox than you do for blitting.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Jake b <ninmonk...@gmail.com> wrote: > To preserve the center: > > > pos = self.rect.center > self.rect = self.rect.inflate(-85, -20) > self.rect.center = pos > > > > > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Skorpio <skorpio2...@yahoo.de> wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> How can you scale the hitbox of a sprite? I tried self.rect = >> self.rect.inflate(-85, -20) and that scaled the rect correctly (to the >> center of the rect), but the game still takes the upper left corner of the >> rect as the blit position for the image/surface. That means the rect >> covers >> only the upper left part of the sprite, so that the left half of the >> sprite >> image can be hit and the right half can't be hit. >> >> Regards, >> Skorpio >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://pygame-users.25799.x6.nabble.com/pygame-Scaling-the-hitbox-rect-of-a-sprite-tp1227.html >> Sent from the pygame-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > > > -- > Jake >
