Re: [pygame] Trolls Outta Luckland - 0.0.4

[B W <stabbingfinger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brilliant. RTWFM. :)

Simple, elegant, and smart fix. I'll have the new stuff up shortly.

bw

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Michael George <mdgeorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have you tried using the pygame.mask module?  I suspect that it will be fast enough to not have to do preloading.  Doing hitmasks the way you are (i.e. in python) has huge overheads.

--Mike

B W wrote:

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:58 AM, B W <stabbingfinger@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stabbingfinger@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

   On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Michael George

   <mdgeorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mdgeorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

       In 0.0.4:

       ImportError: Bad magic number in lib/game_globals.pyc


   $ cd /home/mdgeorge/tmp/trolls_outta_luckland
   $ ./Trolls_Outta_Luckland.py

   Gumm


Forget that. Looks like this is going to be a learning experience.

What version of Python are you using, Michael? Bet it's not 2.5.4. And I'll bet that lib/*.pyc need to be recompiled. Which is unfortunate, because I pre-compiled the many many many hitmasks so you wouldn't have to. Compiling those requires 2 GB of RAM and will kill Windows (and maybe Linux) systems that have a decent size paging file configured.

Doing some research. Meanwhile, if my hunch is right: I'll need to figure out how to set up a proper install that re-compiles the libs. Does anyone know of a way to compile huge .py with a tiny amount of RAM--say, less than 500 MB?

Gumm