Design was previously thought to be complete and implementation could begin, but wait! There's more!
We had previously moved on from dirty blitting content that we fully understood the subtleties therein, full of bravado and confidence that, as you will soon learn why, quickly evaporated. As our plans were attacked by rabid weasels.
I carefully chose this metaphor to perfectly illustrate where we are, or course.
So today was spent reviewing tutorials on Sprites; sprites are, in essence, surfaces combined with their rectangles and other information, depending on you the programmer since Sprite itself is pretty useless until you make your own object which inherits Sprite.
What would we like to inherit Sprite, one might ask? Why, our Drawable Object class (which conveniently already does inherit Sprite to support our animated objects)!
So at this point we're getting comfortable inheriting and mutating Sprite into something ideal for our environment, with our goals being:
Avoiding unnecessary calculations from drawing a pixel multiple times a draw cycle due to overlapping 'dirty' images.
Changing Drawable Object and Dynamic Drawable Object to act as Sprites instead of lists of images (simple surfaces are good to a point, but we decided that we were reinventing the wheel where animation was concerned)
Do all of this with minimal changes to the preexisting game engine; we want to add to the engine, not rethink the whole engine (but what can't be avoided, can't be avoided)
The tutorial I followed for my initial "aha" moments can be found below!
Edit: Naturally minutes after I make a blog post, something I should mention happens...
After creeping around #pygame I actually got to speak with piman a little regarding which libraries are helpful for implementing rendered SVG's into my master test class. It's a small series of tubes, after all...
(Oh and it seems that my options for SVG rendering are a 'Squirtle' Pygame extension, 'Cairo' a library for python (that is undesirable for animating, I hear) and other options I would have to google intensively just to understand well enough to describe to my fine audience).
Until next time!