spritetext.py

"""Draw polygon-based text.
   Depends on fonttools: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fonttools/
   FIXME: Mouse movement slows down animation (only with polytext).
   by stephan)
"""
from slut import *

textstring = "voodoo programming: n.  1. The use by guess or cookbook of \
an obscure or hairy system, feature, or algorithm that one does not truly \
understand. The implication is that the technique may not work, and if it \
doesn't, one will never know why. Almost synonymous with black magic, except \
that black magic typically isn't documented and nobody understands it. \
Compare magic, deep magic, heavy wizardry, rain dance, cargo cult \
programming, wave a dead chicken, SCSI voodoo."

class Atlantis(World):
    def onSetup(self):
        self.name = "Polygonal Text"
        self.width = 800
        self.height = 600

        st = SpriteText(self, 'sp0', "euromode")
        st.setText(textstring)
        st.setExtrusion(0.05)
        st.setColor(0.8, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0)
        st.enableMouseEvents()

        st.rotBy(0.0, 90.0, 0.0)
        st.scaleTo(1.8, 0.8, 0.8)
        st.moveBy(Thrust(0.0, 0.0, 0.5))
        self.camera.orbitBy(SineTween(20.0, -50.0, 0.0, 4.0))


atlantis = Atlantis()
atlantis.run()