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7.16: Rotating the Start Screen Text

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            rotatedSurf1 = pygame.transform.rotate(titleSurf1, degrees1)
            rotatedRect1 = rotatedSurf1.get_rect()
            rotatedRect1.center = (WINDOWWIDTH / 2, WINDOWHEIGHT / 2)
            DISPLAYSURF.blit(rotatedSurf1, rotatedRect1)
    
            rotatedSurf2 = pygame.transform.rotate(titleSurf2, degrees2)
            rotatedRect2 = rotatedSurf2.get_rect()
            rotatedRect2.center = (WINDOWWIDTH / 2, WINDOWHEIGHT / 2)
            DISPLAYSURF.blit(rotatedSurf2, rotatedRect2)
    
            drawPressKeyMsg()
    
            if checkForKeyPress():
                pygame.event.get() # clear event queue
                return
            pygame.display.update()
            FPSCLOCK.tick(FPS)
    

    The showStartScreen() function will rotate the images on the Surface objects that the "Wormy!" text is written on. The first parameter is the Surface object to make a rotated copy of. The second parameter is the number of degrees to rotate the Surface. The pygame.transform.rotate() function doesn’t change the Surface object you pass it, but rather returns a new Surface object with the rotated image drawn on it.

    Note that this new Surface object will probably be larger than the original one, since all Surface objects represent rectangular areas and the corners of the rotated Surface will stick out past the width and height of original Surface. The picture below has a black rectangle along with a slightly rotated version of itself. In order to make a Surface object that can fit the rotated rectangle (which is colored gray in the picture below), it must be larger than the original black rectangle’s Surface object:

    Figure 27

    The amount you rotate it is given in degrees, which is a measure of rotation. There are 360 degrees in a circle. Not rotated at all is 0 degrees. Rotating to one quarter counter-clockwise is 90 degrees. To rotate clockwise, pass a negative integer. Rotating 360 degrees is rotating the image all the way around, which means you end up with the same image as if you rotated it 0 degrees. In fact, if the rotation argument you pass to pygame.transform.rotate() is 360 or larger, then Pygame automatically keeps subtracting 360 from it until it gets a number less than 360. This image shows several examples of different rotation amounts:

    Figure 28

    The two rotated "Wormy!" Surface objects are blitted to the display Surface on each frame of the animation loop on lines 4 [140] and 9 [145].

    On line 11 [147] the drawPressKeyMsg() function call draws the "Press a key to play." text in the lower corner of the display Surface object. This animation loop will keep looping until checkForKeyPress() returns a value that is not None, which happens if the player presses a key. Before returning, pygame.event.get() is called simply to clear out any other events that have accumulated in the event queue which the start screen was displayed.


    This page titled 7.16: Rotating the Start Screen Text is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Al Sweigart via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform; a detailed edit history is available upon request.

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