Re: [pygame] Animated sprites

[Jasper <jasper@xxxxxxxx>]

Dan wrote:

> Does anyone have a recommended way of making animated sprites?
>
> I read the source code to SolarWolf and saw the way Pete Shinners does
> it, which is pretty much what you would expect: load a list of images
> and blit them in sequence. (I also noticed his animstrip() function,
> which cleverly cuts a single long image into multiple small ones. Good
> thinking, Pete!)
>
> Since Pete is certainly an expert on pygame, I would guess that there's
> no better way of doing it. But I thought I would ask if anyone has any
> other suggestions.
>  
I use openGL to load animation "film strips" as textures. Animation is 
then just a matter of changing the texture sub-rect drawn, and 
animations draw just as fast as static images.  It does eat up a fair 
amount of texture memory though, which might be a problem if you had a 
huge amount of animation.

-Jasper