Re: [pygame] 3D sample code

[Nick Moffitt <nick@xxxxxxxx>]

Will McGugan:
> I don't think it would be pracitcal to render 3D models and blit them
> in 2D. Happy to be proven wrong though.

Well, consider games like powermanga.  They generated their sprites
using 3-D tools and saved them to disk.

When I was working on an SDL game in C, I noted that since I rotated
only in integer degrees, I could set up 360-long cache arrays for sprite
rotations.  This sped up rendering immensely, so long as nothing ever
zoomed in or out.

So if your 3-D game tends to repeat a few basic perspectives on an
object, you may actually consider memoizing renderings to a weakref
LRU/MRU structure of some sort.

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