OrgPrez

A Godot presentation tool based on emacs org-mode files

I use this to make programming-related youtube videos such as Dealing Cards in J.

Concept

• write a script for your presentation using emacs org-mode file
• this tool lets you record an edit one audio clip for each line of text
• then play back the whole thing as a godot animation and record the presentation with something like OBS studio
• you can also schedule custom godot scripts and animations with lines starting with @
• can also work with jprez to make scripted presentations in a colorful REPL for the J programming language

example "screenplay"

(I call the .org file a screenplay rather than a "script" because my videos tend to revolve around writing "scripts" in various programming languages.)

#+title: video title (orgprez reads this but does nothing with it)

* asterisks indicate headlines
#+begin_src j
NB. 'src' blocks can contain text that you want
NB. to appear in a rich text editor node. currently
NB. orgprez knows how to syntax-highlight J code.
+/i.10
#+end_src

Text lines indicate words to be spoken by the narrator.

: NB. Lines starting with a colon generally appear in an on-screen REPL.

: NB. (actually, they just get sent to a godot function so you can override this)

: . ?a dot after the colon indicates a keyboard recording so you can animate typing?

: . ?note that this currently only works with jprez?

* orgprez headlines are usually not nested (though they can be)
#+scene: intro

This is the next slide. The 'scene' line tells orgprez to switch to this scene in its "slide deck".

The name corresponds to a godot '.tscn' file.

If that file has an AnimationPlayer node, OrgPrez will play an animation named 'init' every time you switch to this slide.

@play('other-animation')

Lines starting with an at-sign are passed to "command handler" methods in godot.

The line above calls the method call `cmd_play('org-animation')`.

By default, this method is called on the generic OrgPrez player,

but you can override any command by declaring your own gdscript method on your scene's root node.

Requirements

Developed with with Godot 3.5 ... May work with 3.x ... Not yet ready for 4.0.

Needs installation of godot-waveform.

Here's how I set it up on windows, since I don't have either of these repos published in the godot asset directory yet:

# in powershell (running as admin to make the symlink)
cd d:/ver
git clone https://github.com/tangentstorm/godot-waveform
git clone https://github.com/tangentstorm/orgprez
cd orgprez/addons
New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path waveform -Target D:\ver\godot-waveform\addons\waveform\

Working with JPrez

Getting the JPrez integration currently involves compiling some godot plugins with rust and setting up a bunch of symlinks. see notes here.

I don't really expect anyone else to want to do this, so it's not likely to get easier anytime soon. But, if you are actually interested, please get in touch.