Rotating a picture

[Tom Gur]

Hi,

I'm trying to build a small spaceship battle game as an exercise,
using pygame.
How can I rotate the gif file of my ship by X degrees ?

 

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

I'm trying to build a small spaceship battle game as an exercise,
using pygame.
How can I rotate the gif file of my ship by X degrees ?

You shouldn't do this with the PyGame functions, the quality is poor.
Either use a paint program to pre-generate rotated images or the python
imaging library (PIL) to create them in the game.

Either way you should use an RGB format instead of a format with a
palette to have better anti aliasing, and always rotate from the original
image as each rotation introduces some loss of quality and detail.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch