you mean by manipulating Rect.x etc? yep that works fine and that's how i handle the problem.
but why have the move() method in pygame at all? i mean, what do people use it for typically? On 9/5/15, bw <stabbingfin...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are correct, sir. The Rect methods convert your inputs to int, at > which point precision is lost. If we want finer spatial calculations we > must keep them in forms that don't lose precision, and apply them to the > Rect object as needed. > > On 9/5/2015 2:52 PM, tom arnall wrote: >> The docs say the Rect.move() can take only integers for the offset >> parameters. My experiments seem to verify that. This means that it can >> move an object in only a few directions, i.e., 1,0 for 0 degrees, 1,1 >> for 45 degrees etc. You can of course increase the magnitudes of the >> offsets and get more angles, but then it is impossible to create the >> effect of smooth movement. >> >> My take anyway. Am I missing something? > > -- ..... “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.” Albert Einstein ..... “I have no special talents, only a passionate and stubborn curiosity.” Albert Einstein
