There are pygame libraries on the pygame.org site for both SVG and OpenVG, though both are limited, and I think the SVG one is only for opengl rendering.
http://www.pygame.org/project/962/ -- SVG lib http://www.pygame.org/project/964/ -- OpenVG These might be useful to you, if only as a reference :) On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Peter Gebauer < peter.geba...@stockholm.bostream.se> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm not sure, but maybe something like OpenVG would be useful? > http://www.khronos.org/openvg/ > > Once you have a OpenVG implementation for SDL/PyGame you have a complete > and free API to do vector graphics for games, UI's and what not with > (potentially) hardware acceleration specifically for vector graphics. > > Just FYI. :) > > /Peter > > On 2009-05-05 (Tue) 18:47, Daniel Jo wrote: > > I don't have very much time during the week, but I'll try to get it > working > > in Windows (XP) this weekend. As for OS X, I don't own a system running > OS > > X, so unfortunately there's little that I can do there. . . > > -Daniel > > > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Bo Jangeborg <b...@softwave.se> wrote: > > > > > Do you know if this will be made available for Windows and OS X too ? > > > > > > Bo) > > > > > > Daniel Jo skrev: > > > > > >> I was thinking about UIs today and recalled a post by Brad Wardel > about > > >> the UI in Galactic Civilizations. He mentioned how it would look > pretty much > > >> the same regardless of the resolution one runs the game at, due to the > use > > >> of SVG. Presumably, the UI is designed as vector drawings and at > runtime > > >> rendered to a texture whose size depends upon the current screen > resolution. > > >> > > >> I thought that this would be a great idea for PyGame, but then I found > > >> that the only implementation of SVG that exists for PyGame actually > uses > > >> Cairo. Personally, I think that using Cairo within PyGame is, at best, > > >> suboptimum. What you end up with is a whole lot of redundant library > that is > > >> doing exactly nothing. It would be much better to have a > implementation with > > >> relatively atomic dependencies. > > >> > > >> Fortunately, after a bit of googling I discovered SDL_svg. It appears > to > > >> require only libxml-2.0 and libSDL. Perfect. It also has a very small > API. > > >> Perfect. After a bit more research I managed to create my own Python > > >> bindings using Pyrex. Take a look: > > >> > > >> http://code.google.com/p/pygame-svg/ > > >> > > >> -Daniel > > >> > > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >> > > >> > > >> No virus found in this incoming message. > > >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.325 / Virus Database: > > >> 270.12.15/2093 - Release Date: 05/02/09 14:23:00 > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > >
