Re: [pygame] sprites in arrays, instead of simple variables

[Paulo Silva <nitrofurano@xxxxxxxxx>]

@TyleLaing

but do you know where can i find working snippets with sprite groups,
like this one i sent? http://pastebin.com/f2b05bf70

(or how sprite group classes can be easily implemented there, if you
or someone don't mind... :| )

thanks a lot! :)

On 7/7/09, Paulo Silva <nitrofurano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> thanks! :)
>
> On 7/7/09, Tyler Laing <trinioler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Take a look at the group classes. This lets you manage the sprites
>> easily.
>>
>> http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/sprite.html#pygame.sprite.Group
>>
>> -Tyler
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Paulo Silva <nitrofurano@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> hi!
>>> recently i coded this humble snipped using sprites from subsurfaces:
>>> http://pastebin.com/f2b05bf70
>>>
>>> the question is: it seems to be simple working with just 4 different
>>> sprites, one in each variable - but when they are hundreds or
>>> thousands, this task become to be very boring - can we store sprites
>>> into arrays instead of simple variables?
>>>
>>> another question: this example became slow when the ammount of sprites
>>> on screen are 256 or more, on a Pentium4-sse2 (i'm using Ubuntu Linux
>>> 9.04) - is there some way to speed up this task, and allowing as much
>>> as 1000 sprites or more for this? (i'm interested on trying to start
>>> coding those bullet-hell doujin shumps, and this snippet were for
>>> testing how many sprites we can count with for this kind of game
>>> development)
>>>
>>> thanks! :)
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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