“This PR addresses all requested changes from #2821. First-time contribution, feedback welcome!”

Claude review:

Review: Improve Textures guide (#2832)

Thanks for tackling #2821 — the restructuring (Texture Layers section, expanded Uniqueness/Cache sections) is a good shape and hits the checklist. However, I traced the new technical claims against the current source and found a few factual inaccuracies that should be fixed before merge, since the whole point of this PR is correctness/cross-refs.

🔴 Issues to fix

1. Wrong class referenced for default_texture_cache.

   Arcade stores texture instances in the default texture cache
   (:py:class:`arcade.cache.TextureCache`). To clear all cached textures,
   use the :py:meth:`arcade.cache.TextureCache.flush` method:

   default_texture_cache = TextureCacheManager() (arcade/texture/__init__.py:19) — it's a TextureCacheManager, not a TextureCache. The manager wraps a TextureCache internally, but default_texture_cache.flush() actually calls TextureCacheManager.flush() (arcade/texture/manager.py:64), which by default also flushes sprite sheets and image data (not just texture entries, and not hit boxes). arcade.TextureCacheManager is already a documented Sphinx target (doc/api_docs/api/texture.rst:25) — use that instead:

   Arcade stores texture instances in the default texture cache
   (:py:class:`arcade.TextureCacheManager`). To clear all cached textures,
   use the :py:meth:`arcade.TextureCacheManager.flush` method:

2. flipped_vertically=True doesn't exist. Grepped the whole codebase — no such parameter/kwarg anywhere. The real API is the zero-arg instance method texture.flip_vertically() (arcade/texture/texture.py:482), called after loading, not a load-time flag.

3. "the underlying pixel data changes" is incorrect. Texture.transform() (arcade/texture/texture.py:564-596), which backs all flip methods, passes the same self.image_data into the new Texture — only hit box points and a GPU-side draw transform differ. This directly contradicts flip_vertically()'s own docstring ("returns a new texture with the same image data"). Suggest rewording to something like: flipped textures get a different hit box (computed from the transformed pixel data) even though the underlying image data is shared.

4. arcade.load_texture is probably the wrong cross-ref for cache-naming. arcade.load_texture (arcade/texture/loading.py:12) is explicitly docstring'd as "Load a texture from disk (no caching)." The unique-name/cache-key logic (Texture.create_image_cache_name, arcade/texture/texture.py:282) is used by TextureCacheManager.load_or_get_texture / _load_or_get_texture, not by plain load_texture. Worth pointing at default_texture_cache.load_or_get_texture instead. (Also: create_image_cache_name only combines path + crop, not flip state — another sign this is the wrong function to cite for "name includes flipping.")

🟡 Nit

• Trailing double-spaces (Markdown-style hard breaks — meaningless in RST) on the **Arcade (Python / RAM)** and **pyglet** bullet lines. The repo's trailing-whitespace pre-commit hook (.pre-commit-config.yaml:10) will likely flag these.

Overall

Structure and intent are good; recommend re-verifying each new technical claim against TextureCacheManager / TextureCache / Texture.transform source directly rather than paraphrasing the issue description, then this should be good to merge.