On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 04:08:08PM +0100, Sam Bull wrote: > I was wondering if there was much interest in extending OpenGL support > in Pygame. One of the things I am implementing in my toolkit is OpenGL > support. To do this, I am effectively creating the surface class and > draw module in OpenGL. I am using Pygame's API to create the interface > for it, so that it can be simply dropped into the same places and > behaves in the same way as vanilla Pygame. > > If this is something of interest to other people, I'm wondering whether > there might be some interest in integrating this code into Pygame > (sometime after GSoC). This would (I'm envisaging) allow users to create > a game using Pygame's standard sprite and draw module, and be able to > run it under OpenGL by simply adding the OPENGL flag. As opposed to > having to recreate all of the drawing code. > Even for developing 3D games, I think this would make it a lot easier > for developers to create the 2D elements of a game, such as the HUD. > > Thanks, > Sam Bull
YES! Very much! In my personal opinion, the lack of simple drop-in OpenGL support that works the same way as the existing Surface class is the biggest weakness of pygame. Although I would much rather have such a feature as part of pygame, rather than part of a GUI add-on --- James Paige
