Re: [pygame] using opengl in pygame?

[Eric Burgess <eric@big-brain.org>]

SDL is going to have performance trouble anytime you try to update the 
entire frame, every frame.  Which is a real downer IMO, since I like my 
games to look dyanmic with the entire screen updating all the time.

In OpenGL, there's no performance bottleneck, but there's another 
limitation--the card's max texture size.  I believe that 512x512 is 
almost universally supported, and that even moderately new cards can do 
2048x2048.  But you'll definitely want to research that.

-Eric

israel@uandmedance.com wrote:

> Thanks Bob and Eric.
>
> Great feedback.
> So are there any examples you can point me to that successfully use 
> OpenGL within a pyGame context? From the various bits I've read, it 
> sounds like people are pretty pleased with how easy it is to use the 
> two without any major contortions or limitations.
>
> In my day job (and night job, and early early morning job), I'm the 
> artist for a small games developer, and in the past we tried to use 
> SDL and ran into an image size barrier. Turns out that SDL didn't like 
> full screen (or close to that) images that moved so we ended up having 
> to patch a big grid of many images together to reach decent 
> performance. Is that something you've heard about, or is there a 
> better approach fullscreen animated goodness?
>
>
> Thanks again.
>
> ~Israel~