On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Ian Mallett <geometr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The issue is that in the case of depth, data is of length x*y. In the case > of RGB color, it is 3*rect[2]*rect[3]. In the case of RGBA, it is > 4*rect[2]*rect[3]. PyGame doesn't know how to convert it (there's no > pygame.image.fromstring(data,size,'R',1), for instance). What's a decent > way to save the depth as an image? > > have you tried a paletted image? they are one byte per pixel. so: pygame.image.fromsring(data, size, "P", 1) another option would be to try python's "array" module - can you array,fromstring(data, "B")? if so, that will let you index the bytes yourself to do whatever you want with them.
