Re: [pygame] Creating sprites on the fly?

[NBarnes <nbarnes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Julian Marchant <onpon4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, I'm somewhat new to Python and very new to Pygame, so please bear with
> me if I sound like an idiot.
>
> Is it possible to create sprites on-the-fly?
>
> In my load image function, I would like to add an option to create a simple
> back-up sprite (a black rectangle will suffice) on-the-fly if the requested
> sprite is unavailable, to allow the game to still run.

Couldn't you just load a black rectangle at startup and use that in
place of whatever sprite failed to load?