How do I rotate an image around its center using Pygame?

Question

I had been trying to rotate an image around its center in using pygame.transform.rotate() but it\'s not working. Specifically the part that hangs is rot_i

Answer 1

You are deleting the rect that rotate creates. You need to preserve rect, since it changes size when rotated.

If you want to preserve the objects location, do:

def rot_center(image, angle):
    """rotate a Surface, maintaining position."""

    loc = image.get_rect().center  #rot_image is not defined 
    rot_sprite = pygame.transform.rotate(image, angle)
    rot_sprite.get_rect().center = loc
    return rot_sprite

    # or return tuple: (Surface, Rect)
    # return rot_sprite, rot_sprite.get_rect()