Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] 2D (Re: Bitmaps and Circles?)

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

On Apr 26, 2004, at 10:43 PM, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:

> sn...@so... wrote:
> ...
>
>> perfectly). Now the last portion of the engine - for the initial 
>> release, at
>> least - is the whole graphic shpiel.
>> PyGame is very nice, I hope I'm not offending anyone - but it is, in 
>> my
>> experience, a bit slow. OpenGL is fast (the demos seemed promising, I 
>> wrote
>> a few quick programs and liked the resulting fps), and I figured I 
>> wouldn't
>> mind going through some hoops to get OpenGL's speed into an oo-2d 
>> oriented
>> interface.
>
> Oh, then, go for it, but keep in mind that you're dealing with a 
> system that thinks in terms of points, lines and triangles, so you're 
> going to have to do your own tessellating (though there are some tools 
> that will help with that, such as GLU).

Also don't forget the glSDL backend, which could presumably be ported 
to pygame (if it hasn't already) a lot more easily than writing yet 
another graphics engine.