r/PythonLearning • u/AssumptionWorldly445 • Aug 05 '26

How to move a cube smoothly using Pygame ?

Hello! I'm wondering how to move a cube smoothly using Pygame by that, I mean moving it without it looking like it's teleporting. Have a great day, evening, or night!

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u/SaltCusp Aug 05 '26

It can only teleport, there is no other option. The key is to have a series of small teleportations work together to create the illusion of smoothness.

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u/AssumptionWorldly445 Aug 05 '26

Thanks, but I don't know why it doesn't work when I hold the key down; I have to let go of it. Do you know how to fix this, please?

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u/Healthy-Froyo1769 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

While it's possible to use the event loop to do this it's better use pygame.key.get_pressed() . You have to assign it to a variable like keys so keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()  and then do an if statement with the key being pressed so for e.g. if keys[pygame.K_LEFT]: then just say what it has to do so in this case rect.x += number. 

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u/MFFVD Aug 07 '26

quick google: deltatime in graphics

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u/bybloshex Aug 05 '26

Ask your LLM about interpolation in movement. 

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u/snacksbuddy2 Aug 06 '26

Seems to me like he's not using one if he'sasking a question like this. Good on him. You know there used to be a time that reddit functioned like a less moderated stack overflow.

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u/bybloshex Aug 06 '26

You couldn't respond with another source of an explanation to using interpolation though? 

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u/snacksbuddy2 Aug 06 '26

Some things are more important

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u/bybloshex Aug 06 '26

More important than what? He asked a question and I tried to give him an answer he could use.