[E2][Release] 3D2D Text

[Filipe]

That's really useful, would be nice to have it in official SVN!

I concur!

Slap some limits on it, have a look through the lua, optimize where needed and I don't see why this couldn't be put in the official SVN, it's certainly useful, and I don't see how it'd be any worse than regular props or holos.

[dracotonisamond]

Bug Report Time . when i tried to do this:

S=lastSaid()
runOnTick(1)
if(first())
{
    holoTextCreate(1)
    holoTextPos(1,entity():pos()+vec(0,0,15))
    holoTextAng(1,entity():isWeldedTo():angles())

}
holoTextScale(1,2)
holoText(1,S)
holoTextParent(1,entity():isWeldedTo())

I get this.

Entity [104][prop_physics]
Player [3][SPiRALFACToR]
...s/gmod_wire_expression2/core/custom/cl_textholos.lua:110: bad argument #1 to 'WorldToLocal' (Vector expected, got nil)
Entity [104][prop_physics]
recived:
1
Entity [104][prop_physics]
Player [3][SPiRALFACToR]
...s/gmod_wire_expression2/core/custom/cl_textholos.lua:110: bad argument #1 to 'WorldToLocal' (Vector expected, got nil)

Oh. and this is freaking AWESOME. i hope you can get this in the official svn.
keep up the epic work.

cheers.
dracotonisamond

[bobthe2lol]

Update to the newest version in the OP, i fixed that and a few other errors (thanks bromverg for letting me beta test on your private server (and spam barrells and crash it lol!))

[bobthe2lol]

Ok, so i'm going to add a size limit, and its going to be clientside. If the clients want to change their max size, let them. It will be clamped to what ever the clientconvar for min and max are set to. I will also make a serverside convar for a max amount of them. Also, i will add a clientside block like holos have. That is all.

Or not. I will set the cost very high (for creating one it will be about 300) because this is the easiest way to stop people spaming them. Or rather, making alot of lag because of them

[bobthe2lol]

Wait a sec, how do i set the cost for a function more than 20? Or even better, how do i just add x amount of ops when ever a function is called?

[N00bDud3]

I think you just use E2setCost(X) above the code and E2setCost(0) after, but I'm not sure. I'll peek into some of the built-in E2 functions to see how they did it.

EDIT: I was close, it seems to be

__e2setcost(X)
#Function goes here#
__e2setcost(nil)

X being the cost you want.

I found that in hologram.lua

[bobthe2lol]

I wish. Cost is clamped to 20 i think. Atleast, anything over 20 is set to 20 so... yea

[bobthe2lol]

Updated OP With newer version, now has a serverside convar for a max amount per player, and 2 clientside ones for max and min size And uploading a new video to xfire

[N00bDud3]

I don't think that size should be client-side, unless the size it is drawn at is clamped client-side.

[bobthe2lol]

It is. I did it that way so everyone can choose their own settings. If yotu dont want to see it at all, just set min and max both below 1, because anyting below 1 wont draw