Re: [pygame] Extending OpenGL support in Pygame

[James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 04:08:08PM +0100, Sam Bull wrote:
> I was wondering if there was much interest in extending OpenGL support
> in Pygame. One of the things I am implementing in my toolkit is OpenGL
> support. To do this, I am effectively creating the surface class and
> draw module in OpenGL. I am using Pygame's API to create the interface
> for it, so that it can be simply dropped into the same places and
> behaves in the same way as vanilla Pygame.
> 
> If this is something of interest to other people, I'm wondering whether
> there might be some interest in integrating this code into Pygame
> (sometime after GSoC). This would (I'm envisaging) allow users to create
> a game using Pygame's standard sprite and draw module, and be able to
> run it under OpenGL by simply adding the OPENGL flag. As opposed to
> having to recreate all of the drawing code.
> 	Even for developing 3D games, I think this would make it a lot easier
> for developers to create the 2D elements of a game, such as the HUD.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sam Bull


YES! Very much! In my personal opinion, the lack of simple drop-in 
OpenGL support that works the same way as the existing Surface class is 
the biggest weakness of pygame.

Although I would much rather have such a feature as part of pygame, 
rather than part of a GUI add-on

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James Paige