I have been trying out Manim Community. I am wondering if there is a way to change the text colour to black through out the whole program by calling config.
I can change the background colour using config.background_color = WHITE. I have tried searching online and trying random things (like config.text_colour = BLACK) to no avail. Thanks!
One solution is to open the .../manim/mobject/svg/tex_mobject.py and change the colour there :
class TexMobject(SingleStringTexMobject):
CONFIG = {
"arg_separator": " ",
"substrings_to_isolate": [],
"tex_to_color_map": {},
"color": YOUR_COLOUR,
}
(credits to @Level-314 for this solution)
Of course this should also apply to Text.
There should is a color parameter for Text.
For example,
from manim import *
class TextColor(Scene):
def construct(self):
self.add(Text('Hello',color=BLUE))
should give a blue colored text.
See the corresponding documentation: https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/reference/manim.mobject.svg.text_mobject.Text.html#manim.mobject.svg.text_mobject.Text
On Mac, I found the file at: /users/<accountName>/library/python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages/manim/svg/text_mobject.py. On Windows, it was found to be here: C:\Users\<accountName>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\Lib\site-packages\manim\mobject\svg\text_mobject.py Then, text_mobject.py, I did two/three things:
In line 68, there is this: from ...utils.color import WHITE, Colors. I added
from ...utils.color import BLACK, Colors underneath. It gave me an error if I skipped this step.
I went to line 129 and changed color=WHITE to color=BLACK.
Only needed on Windows: Go to line 699 and color: str = WHITE, to color: str = BLACK,
Credit for helping me find this goes to olirwin in the comments.
Note: I am using Manim Community v0.4
