Re: [pygame] using opengl in pygame?

[Jacob Schwartz <kevlarx@netidea.com>]

   Thanks for the quick reply...

> > The first one was the restriction on texture sizes allowed in video 
> > memory, and the (then) small amount of video memory.
> > I found it inconvenient at the very least for all images I loaded to 
> > have to have width/height sizes as specific powers of two (using a non 
> > power of two caused unecisary memory waste, or just plain didnt work). 
> > Is this still the case? ...
> > if so, are there clever ways around it (besides having to create all 
> > spritesheets etc in those exact dimensions)?
> >    
> As far as I now this is still the case.  I haven't found the wastage from
> bumping your images to the next power of 2 to be an issue.  It feels a bit
> crude, but I would guess that it allows the underlying calculations to be
> faster.
>
>  
Imagion the sitation where I have 30 different character sprite sheets, 
each with 300 frames of animation each not very many for a 2d game.
Plus, add HUD images, menu images, all the extras that come up in a game 
(particles, mouse cursors, etc)
If the smallest size is fairly large, I would have to pack unrelated art 
into the same physical image file, if the largest size is too small I 
would have to split related frames into seperate files. - Clearly it 
becomes a problem.

Perhaps there is a dynamic which could run some sort of bin-packing 
algorithm to best use the video memory to free me of having to deal with 
this problem, and just load images as I would with a 2d api?

      - Jacob