[E2] Floating Info Texts

[justbegon]

Hi all,

Is it possible to make Floating Info Texts made by E2?
I often see floating text in gamemodes, like playernames and titles floating above players, "To buy this door press F2" in RolePlay.
And I was thinking if this was possible in E2... It probably is, so therefor this request.

It also would be very helpful debugging stuff, but also informing other players.
It'll probably be serverside initialization and clientside texts (rotating to player view).
I gues it wouldn't cause more lag then a wire_textscreen.

Useful options would be:
textCreate(Index:N,Text:S) :N
textCreate(Index:N,Position:V,Size:N,Color:V,Font: N,Text:S) :N
textpos(N,V)
textString(N,S)
textSize(N,N)
textFont(N,N)
textParent(N,E)
textDelete(N)

Thanks in advance,

Sander[LMM] (justbegon)

UPDATE:
Its actually working. See this post.

[Drunkie]

No, these are not possible in E2, they are seperate addons. Totally un-related to wiremod.
Unless there is a custom extension someone made, but isn't committed to official wire svn.

[Nikita]

Has everyone completely forgot about info_text entity in source? Nothing is preventing us from simply spawning it and changing it's text with an e2 function.

[Xandaros]

Drunkie... if I understood he was requesting such an addon :O

info_text... I'll look at that... sounds interesting

But we should have a low limit... since it needs a sperate entity...

Xan

Edit: are you sure you didn't meant Point_Message?

[Nikita]

Oh yes, Point_Message is what I mean.

[justbegon]

Thanks for replying so fast!

I'm glad someone can read (!) and shows interest!


I hope this can be realized.

[Whosdr]

This gave me an idea to combine aimEntity and gpulib tool....

[Xandaros]

Okay, since this is easy, I'll start making this.

Xan

[Xandaros]

Update Bump:

//TODO: TODOs
//TODO: Spellcheck

local SpawnedTexts = 0
local sbox_maxftexts = CreateConVar("sbox_e2_maxftexts","50", FCVAR_ARCHIVE)
local E2Helper = {Descriptions = {}}

E2Helper.Descriptions["fTextCreate"] = "Create a floating text at V with the string S and Radius N"
e2function entity fTextCreate(string text, vector pos, number radius)
	pos = Vector(pos[1],pos[2],pos[3])

	if (sbox_maxftexts:GetInt() >= 0) then
		if (SpawnedTexts >= sbox_maxftexts:GetInt()) then return end
	end

	ent = ents.Create("point_message")
	if not ent then return end

	ent:Activate()

	ent:SetKeyValue("message",text)
	ent:SetKeyValue("radius",radius)
	ent:SetPos(pos)
	ent:Spawn()

	local phys = ent:GetPhysicsObject()

	if (phys:IsValid()) then
		phys:Wake()
	end
						//TODO: Something to the texts spawned by E2 disappear on removal and lowering counter    MAYOR!!!!

	ent:Fire("Activate","",0)
	return ent
end

E2Helper.Descriptions["fTextPos"] = "Resets the position of a Floating Text to V"
e2function void entity:fTextPos(vector pos)
	pos = Vector(pos[1],pos[2],pos[3])

	if (!self.player:IsAdmin()) then
		if (this:GetOwner() != self.player) then return end
	end
	if (!this:IsValid()) then return end
	if (this:GetClass() != "point_message") then return end

	this:SetPos(pos)

	return void
end

E2Helper.Descriptions["fTextText"] = "Sets the Text of a Floating Text to S"
e2function void entity:fTextText(string text)
	if (!self.player:IsAdmin()) then
		if (this:GetOwner() != self.player) then return end
	end
	if (!this:IsValid()) then return end
	if (this:GetClass() != "point_message") then return end

	this:SetKeyValue("message",text)

	return void
end

E2Helper.Descriptions["fTextRadius"] = "Sets the Radius of a Floating Text to N"
e2function void entity:fTextRadius(number radius)
	if (!self.player:IsAdmin()) then
		if (this:GetOwner() != self.player) then return end
	end
	if (!this:IsValid()) then return end
	if (this:GetClass() != "point_message") then return end

	this:SetKeyValue("radius", radius)
end

This is still early progress... I have no idea how to get it to lower the counter or simply remove the texts on E2 removal. The Limit is GLOBAL, but this is on purpose.
It also needs further testing. I only checked the create function, if it works. I also don't know if the limit works, or if you can change the limit.

Setting it to -1 should disable it.

And this is were I don't wanna continue :P Have fun!

Xan

[mattwd0526]

This was suggested before I believe...

Indeed it has: E2- 3d2d floating text