[pygame] Scrolling background
Hello! Forgive me if this is a trivial question. What is the nicest way to go about having a background which moves at a constant speed in one direction (as in a side-scrolling shooter)? Right now, I draw all the sprites onto the background image, which is moving, and then draw that onto the screen, but is there a neater way? Thank you!
Re: [pygame] Scrolling background
Samuel Mankins waterfli...@speakeasy.net wrote: Forgive me if this is a trivial question. What is the nicest way to go about having a background which moves at a constant speed in one direction (as in a side-scrolling shooter)? Right now, I draw all the sprites onto the background image, which is moving, and then draw that onto the screen, but is there a neater way? You have a background that you want to scroll, so it's bigger than the screen, right? However it pleases you to do so, determine which subsection of the background you want to display that frame, then draw that onto the screen, then draw the sprites on top of that.
Re: [pygame] Scrolling background
All right, that's pretty much what I'm doing. Thank you! On 7/30/11 12:56 PM, NBarnes wrote: Samuel Mankinswaterfli...@speakeasy.net wrote: Forgive me if this is a trivial question. What is the nicest way to go about having a background which moves at a constant speed in one direction (as in a side-scrolling shooter)? Right now, I draw all the sprites onto the background image, which is moving, and then draw that onto the screen, but is there a neater way? You have a background that you want to scroll, so it's bigger than the screen, right? However it pleases you to do so, determine which subsection of the background you want to display that frame, then draw that onto the screen, then draw the sprites on top of that.
[pygame] Scrolling Background module
Hi all. Here's a module that provides a scrolling background. This is pretty common in 2D games and I think it should be considered for inclusion in pygame. To see a simple, 100-line example, just run: python scroll_example.py -sjbrown scrolling.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
