There have been some pyweek games using svg in pyglet. The squirtle library iirc was one such effort.
On Fri, 15 May 2015 19:11 Tristam MacDonald <swiftco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2015 at 17:52 Ben Albrecht <benalbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am curious, why not have some high level classes for drawn common >> shapes, like rectangles, circles, triangles, etc. built on top of >> pyglet.gl? Is there some technical barrier preventing this? >> >> I imagine many people are deterred from Pyglet when they realize they >> will have to write some nasty looking opengl calls to draw some simple >> shapes. At least this is a common comparison I notice when people compare >> Pygame vs. Pyglet. >> > > I think that PyGame vs pyglet comparisons are generally misguided - the > two fulfill very different roles: > - PyGame is intended to be a full-featured toolkit for developing > software-rendered 2D games (which happens to have some support for OpenGL). > - pyglet is designed to provide much lower-level access to a variety of > multimedia libraries (of which OpenGL is the most widely used). > > Utilities to draw squares and circles make a lot of sense when you are > blitting pixels to a framebuffer every frame. They make less sense when you > are using a retained graphics API (though there is nothing stopping you > from writing such classes, as an addon library). > > Plus, it's worth considering how many games are actually made by drawing > squares and circles. My contention would be that apart from Pong, there > aren't a whole lot of examples. And you can always do that by drawing your > squares and circles in an image editor, and using pyglet's Sprite class... > > - Tristam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pyglet-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pyglet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to pyglet-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pyglet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to pyglet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
