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

["andrew baker" <failrate@xxxxxxxxx>]

, 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.

Oddworld Abe's Oddysee and Exodus both used a similar method.  The moving sprites had shadow versions of themselves at a lower z-plane.  These shadow versions were all black, at increasing alphas.  There were about 4-6 for Abe.  They sort of trailed behind Abe by few milliseconds.  The net effect was that the sprites appeared to animate more smoothly and seemed to have more depth.

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Andrew Ulysses Baker
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