Re: [pygame] How to make a (fast) smooth movement on 30 frames

[Kris Schnee <kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx>]

DR0ID wrote:
> For the movement I would recomend time based movement because then they 
> move on every machine at same speed :-).

I've been using time.sleep(.05) or something like that; it greatly 
reduces CPU usage. Using that in combination with a time-getting 
function can make the speed constant on all machines.

> For a really smooth movement I think you would have to use motion blur, 
> but I do not know how to do that.

Whoa, interesting concept for Pygame. I'm going to resist the temptation 
to run off and program it, but I guess what you'd do is save the 
previous frame (using Pygame's existing double-buffering ability?) and 
for moving objects, blit it beneath the current frame with high alpha, 
leaving a ghost of it on the screen.

Kris