While not completely drop-in, I found this project a few months ago that more-or-less accomplishes the goal. http://pygame.org/project-PyGL3Display-1562-3793.html
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:15 AM, James Paige <b...@hamsterrepublic.com> wrote: > 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 >
