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Welcome to the PygameShader wiki for version 1.0.3 !

All the shader's name in the wiki are valid only for version 1.0.3

Pygame Shaders Library Pygame shader project is a 2D game library written in Python and Cython containing special effects for development of multimedia applications like video games, arcade game, video and camera image processing or to customize your sprites textures/surfaces.

This library is compatible with BMP, GIF (non - animated), JPEG, PNG image format.

pygame may not always be built to support all image formats. At minimum it will support uncompressed BMP. If pygame.image.get_extended() returns 'True', you should be able to load most images (including PNG, JPG and GIF). The shaders can be applied to the entire game display for a real time rendering @ 60 fps for games running in medium resolution such as 1024 x 768. Some algorithms are more demanding than others in terms of processing power ex : median filtering and predator vision (due to the fact that it is built with more than one shader to provide a composite effect). Consequently, not all shader will run at the same speed at medium resolutions. Feel free to experiment with higher display resolutions while the shader provides 60 fps or above.

If you are using the shader library for sprites texturing and special effects then the overall processing time should be extremely fast due to code optimization with cython. Nevertheless, to keep a good frame rate, it is advised to keep the sprites below the screen display resolution e,g 200x200 texture size.

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