Hello text

Example showing text in world and screen space. Also notice how the text is shown on top of the plane (due to its depth offset).

hello text
from time import perf_counter

import pygfx as gfx
import pylinalg as la


scene = gfx.Scene()

# Create a plane to put attach text to
plane = gfx.Mesh(
    gfx.box_geometry(20, 20, 1),
    gfx.MeshPhongMaterial(color=(0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 1.0)),
)
scene.add(plane)

# Create two texts, one on each side of the plane
text1 = gfx.Text(
    gfx.TextGeometry("Hello world", font_size=2.8),
    gfx.TextMaterial(color="#ddd"),
)
text1.local.position = (0, 0, 0.5)
plane.add(text1)

text2 = gfx.Text(
    gfx.TextGeometry("Здравей свят", font_size=2.8),
    gfx.TextMaterial(color="#ddd"),
)
text2.local.position = (0, 0, -0.5)
text2.local.scale = (-1, 1, 1)
plane.add(text2)

# Another text in screen space. Also shows markdown formatting
text3 = gfx.Text(
    gfx.TextGeometry(
        markdown=" **Screen** space",
        screen_space=True,
        font_size=20,
        anchor="bottomleft",
    ),
    gfx.TextMaterial(color="#0f4"),
)
text3.local.position = (10, 10, 0)
plane.add(text3)

# Let there be ...
scene.add(gfx.AmbientLight())
light = gfx.DirectionalLight()
light.local.position = (0, 0, 1)
scene.add(light)


t_last = perf_counter()


def before_render():
    global t_last
    t_new = perf_counter()
    dt = t_new - t_last
    t_last = t_new
    rot = la.quat_from_euler((0.25 * dt, 0.5 * dt), order="XY")
    plane.local.rotation = la.quat_mul(rot, plane.local.rotation)


disp = gfx.Display(before_render=before_render)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    disp.show(scene)

Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 8.291 seconds)

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