Can you please share the code, so we can look into it? Op 10 dec. 2015 15:20 schreef "Yann Thorimbert" <yann.thorimb...@unige.ch>:
> Hi, > > > I'm currently looking into a "big" minigame that I wrote a few years ago. > At this time, I dit not try to use Sprites and Groups objects, and so the > code I'm talking about does not use them. Now that I want to continue the > development of this game, I wonder how much the code would gain in clarity > and performances if I used Sprites. > > > Basically, I have a few (~10-30) images to draw on the screen, each one > beeing approximately a rect of 20-100 pixels width/height. Since not all > these images must be drawn each frame, and since most of them don't > overlap, what I did is a loop that check for each one if it needs to be > drawn (for user input reasons, for instance), and if so, the image is > redrawn and then a call to pygame.display.update(image.get_rect()) is done. > > > However, some tests I have made show that, instead of updating each > image'rect, a single call to pygame.display.flip() each frame sometimes > does the job better, in term of performances, depending on the sizes and > number of images to draw. > > > I'm not sure to really understand how Sprite and Groups works behind the > scene : from what I described of my code, do you think it could > significantly improve performances if I use them ? Would it handle better > than me the updates of the screen surface ? > > > Cheers, > > > Yann >
