Re: [pygame] Animated sprites

[Jasper <jasper@xxxxxxxx>]

If you're using OpenGL it depends.  Texture sizes only come in powers of 
two, so you can potentially save space by packing odd sized frames into 
a single image of the correct size, or waste a bunch if you pack 
texture-sized images into an odd size filmstrip.  On balance it'll 
probably save space if done well, provided your frames aren't all sized 
in powers of 2 to begin with.

Anyway, the point of filmstrips isn't so much to save space, as it is to 
make the code involved simpler.

-Jasper

Luke Miller wrote:

> Does loading an sequence of animation strips from a single file take
> up less memory than loading up each frame from its own file. I know
> they take less time to load from the HDD, but I don't see how they
> could take up less memory...
>