manimgl-best-practices

Install manimgl via pip, write a class inheriting from InteractiveScene with a construct method, and render with the manimgl CLI command. Use ShowCreation for drawing paths and Write for text, then run manimgl scene.py MyScene to preview.

ManimGL uses `from manimlib import *`, the manimgl CLI, InteractiveScene, ShowCreation, Tex, and self.frame for camera control. ManimCE uses `from manim import *`, the manim CLI, Scene, Create, MathTex, and self.camera.frame.

Run manimgl with the -se flag followed by a line number to drop into an interactive shell at that point. Inside the shell, use checkpoint_paste() to execute clipboard code with animations, or self.embed() in the scene to open an IPython session.

Access the camera through self.frame and call frame.reorient(theta, phi, gamma, center, height) to set orientation. Animate movement with frame.animate.reorient(...) and use fix_in_frame() on labels so they stay in screen space during rotation.

Create and MathTex are Manim Community Edition names that do not exist in ManimGL. Replace Create with ShowCreation and MathTex with Tex using capital-R raw strings like Tex(R"\pi"), and confirm you installed manimgl, not manim.

Pass a t2c (tex_to_color_map) dictionary to Tex, for example Tex(R"E = mc^2", t2c={"E": BLUE, "m": GREEN}). You can also call set_color_by_tex on the mobject to recolor matching substrings after creation.