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Adding Collisions Using pygame.Rect.colliderect in Pygame

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Prerequisite: Drawing shapes in Pygame, Introduction to pygame

In this article, we are going to use pygame.Rect.colliderect for adding collision in a shape using Pygame in Python.

We can easily add collisions in Pygame shapes using the colliderect( ). For this, we are going to draw two rectangles then we will check if the rectangles are colliding or not.

Syntax: pygame.Rect.colliderect(rect1, rect2)

Parameters: It will take two rects as its parameters.

Returns: Returns true if any portion of either rectangle overlap.

Example 1: Simple example to add collision in shape at one way

Python3




# Importing the pygame module
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
 
# Initiate pygame and give permission
# to use pygame's functionality
pygame.init()
 
# Create a display surface object
# of specific dimension
window = pygame.display.set_mode((600, 600))
 
# Creating a new clock object to
# track the amount of time
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
 
 
# Creating a new rect for first object
player_rect = Rect(200, 500, 50, 50)
 
# Creating a new rect for second object
player_rect2 = Rect(200, 0, 50, 50)
 
# Creating variable for gravity
gravity = 4
 
# Creating a boolean variable that
# we will use to run the while loop
run = True
 
# Creating an infinite loop
# to run our game
while run:
 
    # Setting the framerate to 60fps
    clock.tick(60)
 
    # Adding gravity in player_rect2
    player_rect2.bottom += gravity
 
    # Checking if player is colliding
    # with platform or not using the
    # colliderect() method.
    # It will return a boolean value
    collide = pygame.Rect.colliderect(player_rect, p
                                      layer_rect2)
 
    # If the objects are colliding
    # then changing the y coordinate
    if collide:
        player_rect2.bottom = player_rect.top
 
    # Drawing player rect
    pygame.draw.rect(window, (0,   255,   0),
                     player_rect)
    # Drawing player rect2
    pygame.draw.rect(window, (0,   0,   255),
                     player_rect2)
 
    # Updating the display surface
    pygame.display.update()
 
    # Filling the window with white color
    window.fill((255, 255, 255))


Output:

Example 2: Adding collision on both sides

Python3




# Importing the pygame module
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
 
# Initiate pygame and give permission
# to use pygame's functionality
pygame.init()
 
# Create a display surface object
# of specific dimension
window = pygame.display.set_mode((600, 600))
 
# Creating a new clock object to
# track the amount of time
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
 
 
# Creating a new rect for first object
player_rect = Rect(200, 500, 50, 50)
 
# Creating a new rect for second object
player_rect2 = Rect(200, 0, 50, 50)
 
 
# Creating a boolean variable that
# we will use to run the while loop
run = True
 
# Speed for the objects
speed_a = 8
speed_b = -7
 
# Creating an infinite loop
# to run our game
while run:
 
    # Setting the framerate to 60fps
    clock.tick(60)
 
    # Adding speed in player rects
    player_rect.bottom += speed_a
    player_rect2.top += speed_b
 
    # Checking if player is colliding
    # with platform or not using the
    # colliderect() method.
    # It will return a boolean value
    collide = pygame.Rect.colliderect(player_rect,
                                      player_rect2)
 
    # If the objects are colliding
    # then changing the speed direction
    if collide:
        speed_a *= -1
        speed_b *= -1
 
    # Changing the direction if the objects
    # goes outside the window
    if player_rect.top<0 or player_rect.bottom > 600:
        speed_a *= -1
    if player_rect2.bottom > 600 or player_rect2.top<0:
        speed_b *= -1
     
    # Drawing player rect
    pygame.draw.rect(window, (0,   255,   0),
                     player_rect)
    # Drawing player rect2
    pygame.draw.rect(window, (0,   0,   255),
                     player_rect2)
 
    # Updating the display surface
    pygame.display.update()
 
    # Filling the window with white color
    window.fill((255, 255, 255))


Output:



Last Updated : 24 Sep, 2021
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