Ship graphics

[lumi-a]

Currently, ships are rendered as a composition of simple geometric shapes.

You once added code that let the ship be rendered from an image, instead:

    # If reviving this code, add `self.load_image('ship_sprite.png')`
    # back to the `Ship.__init__` method.
    def load_image(self, image_path: str):
        #Load and prepare the ship image.
        #param image_path: Path to the ship image file
        self.image = pygame.image.load(image_path).convert_alpha()
        self.image = pygame.transform.scale(self.image, (60, 28))  # Resize 
        self.original_image = self.image  # Store the original image for rotation

    def draw_with_image(self, screen: pygame.Surface, camera_pos: Vector2): 
        ship_relative_pos = self.pos - camera_pos 
        rotated_image = pygame.transform.rotate(self.original_image, self.angle)
        rect = rotated_image.get_rect()
        rect.center = ship_relative_pos
        screen.blit(rotated_image, rect)

I don't know how difficult it'd be to render different sprites for different thruster-activations.

[lumi-a]

Maybe the gfxdraw.textured_polygon()-method could help here. But it's probably better to just compose a few sprites.

[Tim2othy]

I like the sprites from this game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq_Zvg9KlII especially the bullets (lasers in that game). I think it's fairly easy to screenshot that game turn the png s into pixel art and use that as sprites. But I'd wait with that until later, for now I just wanted to try out if it worked.

The ship sprite is a profile view anyway so not usable for our game.

[lumi-a]

Maybe we shouldn't commit copyright-infringement.

OpenGameArt has sprites, though we'd have to look for one with a compatible license. Perhaps this, but I'm not picky.

[Tim2othy]

they would probably be delighted if they know that people are still referencing their game. If we ever plan on selling the game we can find non copyrighted material.