I’m following a tutorial on youtube to create my own game for a school project using Clear Code’s Stardew Valley inspired game tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4IX36sP_0c&t=7818s).

note: I have cut certain things out such as layering for the house, fences and some others because they are not necessary for my project.

My water graphics don’t seem to be animating despite everything seeming identical, aside from a couple scaling changes. I was wondering if it had something to do with a warning im getting from Pylance; “surf” is not accessed Pylance, and if not, I was hoping someone else had a solution. My animation for the player works perfectly fine so I’m unsure of why my water animation isn’t working now.

This is a snippet from my sprites.py file that I import into my level.py file!

class Water(Generic):
    def __init__(self, pos, frames, groups):
        
        # animation setup
        self.frames = frames
        self.frame_index = 0

        # sprite setup
        super().__init__(
            pos = pos,
            surf = self.frames[self.frame_index], 
            groups = groups, 
            z = LAYERS['water'])

    def animate(self,dt):
        self.frame_index += 5 * dt
        if self.frame_index >= len(self.frames):
            self.frame_index = 0
        self.image = self.frames[int(self.frame_index)]

    def update(self,dt):
        self.animate(dt)

Here is my Level class in level.py

class Level:
    def __init__(self):
        
        # get the display surface
        self.display_surface = pygame.display.get_surface()
        
        # sprite groups
        self.all_sprites = CameraGroup()
        
        self.setup()
        
    def setup(self):
        tmx_data = load_pygame('../data/level1.tmx')

        # water
        water_frames = import_folder('../graphics/world/water')
        for x, y, surf in tmx_data.get_layer_by_name('water').tiles():
            Water((x * TILESIZE,y * TILESIZE), water_frames, self.all_sprites)
        
        # background layer
        Generic(
            pos = (0,0),
            surf = pygame.image.load('../graphics/world/ground.png').convert_alpha(),
            groups = self.all_sprites,
            z = LAYERS['ground'])
        
        self.player = Player((480, 270), self.all_sprites) #(pos, group) from player class
    
    def run(self, dt):
        self.display_surface.fill('black')
        self.all_sprites.custom_draw(self.player)
        self.all_sprites.update(dt)

Thank you! <3

I have tried fiddling around with the format of the Water variables in level.py to make it look the same as Generic but that did absolutely nothing.