On Feb 13, 2008 3:43 PM, René Dudfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you seen the Lamina code? > http://pitchersduel.python-hosting.com/browser/branches/Lamina/ > I hadn't seen it before - It appears to take the approach of maintaining a single full-screen overlay which is created from a pygame surface. I would guess that it would perform poorly if you wanted a lot of moving/animating pygame surfaces drawn all over. Also, it appears to take the approach of putting the overlay into a subset of a power of 2 texture.
> It'd be nice to be able to get one of these into the pygame > examples... or onto the cookbook. Especially if it can be used to run > existing games (with a little modification). > It sounds fun to write something like that up - should the goal be something that is close to a drop in replacement for pygame.display stuff? maybe with some additional interface for getting transformed and colored blits or something?
