Pygame.transform.rotate scales istead rotation

Question

Recently I decided to start my third pygame game.In that game the player should fire at airplanes from the cannon in the bottom of the screen,by pointing to the airplane with the mouse.I putted the code in more modules(more.py files) for easier understanding.I started by trying to get cannon barel rotate towards mouse current position.So here we go.

main.py

import pygame,sys
import screen
import constants
from pygame.locals import *
from loop import *

screen.screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800,600))
main_loop()

constatns.py

import pygame

pygame.init()

scr = pygame.display.list_modes()
resolution = (scr[0][0],scr[0][1])
angle = 0
barell = pygame.image.load("barell.png")
tux = pygame.image.load("tux.png")
tux2 = pygame.transform.scale(tux,(100,100))

loop.py

import pygame,event
import screen
import constants
import math
import random
import groups
from faster_barell import *


faster_barell = faster_barell()
faster_barell.add_to_group()

def main_loop():
    while True:
        mx,my = pygame.mouse.get_pos()
        event.Event()
        screen.screen.fill([0,0,0])
        groups.barell_group.draw(screen.screen)
        for t in groups.barell_group:
            dx = mx - t.rect.x
            dy = my - t.rect.y
            angle = math.atan2(dx,dy)
            angle2 = math.degrees(angle)
            constants.angle = angle2
            t.image = pygame.transform.rotate(constants.barell,angle2)

         pygame.display.flip()

screen.py

import pygame
import constants

pygame.init()

screen = None

event.py

import pygame,sys
from pygame.locals import *

class Event(object):
    def __init__(self):
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                sys.exit()

faster_barell.py

import pygame
import constants
import groups

class faster_barell(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self):
        pygame.sprite.Sprite.__init__(self)
        self.image = constants.barell
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
        self.rect.x = 750
        self.rect.y = 550

    def add_to_group(self):
        groups.barell_group.add(self)

groups.py

import pygame

barell_group = pygame.sprite.Group()

Now instead of rotating pygame(I can't really explain how)scales the barell image.The barell image is just a blank(white) 10x30 image).Now here comes even more strange part.When in t.image = pygame.transform.rotate(constants.barell,angle2) I change constants.barell to constants.tux2(which is just a tux image(just for testing it won't be in the game) everything works just fine! Here is the tux image I worked with http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Tux-G2.png .I tried to solve the problem by changing dx and dy in math.atan2 to something else(dy,dx,-dy,dx,-dx,-dy and so on)please help I'm trying to solve this for about 6 hours(I never ask on stackoverflow unless I really can't do anything to get the code working)

rotating scales the image to fit, try cropping the image before — Bartlomiej Lewandowski, Aug 03 '13 at 13:42
@BartlomiejLewandowski I didn't know rotating scales image to fit.Nice idea about cropping but I'm still learning pygame and I found nothing about cropping in the documentation.So could you please tell me how to do it,in a bit more details?please — Marko Scekic, Aug 03 '13 at 14:00
See also: http://www.pygame.org/wiki/RotateCenter?parent=CookBook — ninMonkey, Aug 04 '13 at 16:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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Here are some helpful links: docs

from the rotate function doc:

"Unless rotating by 90 degree increments, the image will be padded larger to hold the new size."

the solution is to crop the image after every rotation. You can crop by writing a small function that will create a new surface, and blit the middle part onto the new surface. This problem was already solved here: so

edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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answered Aug 03 '13 at 15:07

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '13 at 17:46

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Thank you for your answers,I tried all of them but none worked for me. Instead i fixed it like this

pygame.transform.rotozoom(constants.barell,angle2,1) instead of pygame.transform.scale.

Thank you all :D

answered Aug 04 '13 at 17:46

Marko Scekic

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Pygame.transform.rotate scales istead rotation

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