Re: [pygame] kind of animation

[Kris Schnee <kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx>]

DR0ID wrote:
> I wonder in wich way you do your animations. As said, I think framebased 
> is the simplest thing to do, but perhaps not the best. And perhaps there 
> are other ways to do animation!? There is also the other question: how 
> to store the images for the animation. A list of images? Or one big 
> image strip and then only changing the source rect? Or a list of 
> sprites? What if an object uses 4 different animations? Use 4 lists in a 
> dict? Or a list of animation-objects? Or an 2D-image strip and move the 
> source rect?

My animation code isn't complete yet, but what I did was put all the 
frames in a single image file, then calculate a set of rectangles 
representing where each frame is. Then I can blit just that rectangle 
from the larger image. (I have that part down.) Animation would work by 
naming a sequence, eg. "walk_east = [3,4,5]" and using that sequence to 
determine what frames get displayed.

Kris