Snowfall display using Pygame in Python
Not everybody must have witnessed Snowfall personally but wait a minute, What if you can see the snowfall right on your screen by just a few lines of creativity and Programming.
Before starting the topic, it is highly recommended revising the basics of Pygame.
Steps for snowfall creation
1. Importing modules
First, we need to import the Pygame module by using the command.
import pygame
Also, along with Pygame, we will also need random module. Python has a built-in module that you can use to make random numbers just by importing random module.
import random
2. Initialize the game engine
It simply means choose the colors you want to use. In programming World, Whatever you can think you can make. At the end of the article, you will find green snowfall on the white background.
Python3
# initializepygame.init()# chosen colours will be used# to display the outputWHITE= [255,255,255]GREEN= [0,255,0] |
3. Specify the size of the screen
It can be a new number depending upon the resolution of your system.
Python3
# specify the sizeSIZE= [400,400]screen= pygame.display.set_mode(SIZE) |
4. Assign a name to your snowfall window screen
The name given can be seen on the left corner of the output window.
Python3
# caption for output windowpygame.display.set_caption("Programming World of GFG") |
5. Create an empty array for your snowfall
Python3
snowFall= [] |
6. Looping to get snowfall positions
Make a loop and run to 50 times and add a snowfall in a random x,y position using random Module.
Python3
for iin range(50): x= random.randrange(0,400) y= random.randrange(0,400) snowFall.append([x, y]) |
7. Track time
Create an object to help track time
Python3
# object to track timeclock= pygame.time.Clock() |
8. Set criteria for snowfall occurrence
Snowfall should occur until the user presses the close button and for this inside while loop, use a for loop.
Python3
# loop till the close button is presseddone= Falsewhile not done: # User did something for eventin pygame.event.get(): # If user clicked close if event.type == pygame.QUIT: # Flag that we are done so # we exit this loop done= True |
9. Set the screen background :
Python3
screen.fill(WHITE) |
10. Process the snowfall
Now use a for loop to process each Snowfall in the list :
Python3
for iin range(len(snowFall)): |
11. Draw the snowfall
Python3
pygame.draw.circle(screen, GREEN, snowFall[i],2) |
12. Adding movement
Python3
# Move the snowFall down one pixel snowFall[i][1]+= 1 # If the snowFall has moved off the bottom of the screen if snowFall[i][1] >400: # Reset it just above the top y= random.randrange(-50,-10) snowFall[i][1]= y # Give it a new x position x= random.randrange(0,400) snowFall[i][0]= x # Go ahead and update the screen with what we've drawn. pygame.display.flip() clock.tick(20)pygame.quit() |
And Yes, Green snowfall has started!!
Complete Program
Python3
import pygameimport randompygame.init()WHITE= [255,255,255]GREEN = [0,255,0]SIZE= [400,400]screen= pygame.display.set_mode(SIZE)pygame.display.set_caption("Programming World of GFG")snowFall= []for iin range(50): x= random.randrange(0,400) y= random.randrange(0,400) snowFall.append([x, y])clock= pygame.time.Clock()done= Falsewhile not done: for eventin pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.QUIT: done= True screen.fill(WHITE) for iin range(len(snowFall)): pygame.draw.circle(screen, GREEN, snowFall[i],2) snowFall[i][1]+= 1 if snowFall[i][1] >400: y= random.randrange(-50,-10) snowFall[i][1]= y x= random.randrange(0,400) snowFall[i][0]= x pygame.display.flip() clock.tick(20)pygame.quit() |
Output
