A-Z Materials

[ahref]

Theres a lot of talk around the forums about making text using holograms and although positioning multiple holograms per letter is cool and challenging. I was looking for something a bit more simple.

I have created materials for the letters A-Z in capitals using the same font and color scheme as the blue button materials(0-9).

Its all fixed this article is fantastic.

Creating 8-bit Alpha Transparent PNG Files


Capitals done. (ahref/letters/A)
Lowercase done.(ahref/letters/la)
numbers done. (ahref/letters/1)
! (!)
" (dquote)
' (quote)
? (pound)
$ (dollar)
€ (euro)
% (percent)
^ (caret)
& (and)
* (star)
( (obracket)
) (cbracket)
- (dash)
+ (plus)
, (comma)
. (period
? (question)
/ (fslash)
\ (bslash)
| (line)
~ (tilde)
= (equal)

heres a little preview:


RELEASED.

heres an expression i used to test them:

@name Letters tester
@inputs A B
@outputs 
@persist S:array I 
if (first()) {
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/A")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/B")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/C")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/D")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/E")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/F")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/G")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/H")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/I")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/J")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/K")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/L")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/M")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/N")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/O")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/P")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/Q")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/R")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/S")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/T")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/U")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/V")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/W")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/X")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/Y")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/Z")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/la")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/lb")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/lc")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/ld")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/le")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/lf")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/lg")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/lh")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/li")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/lj")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/lk")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/ll")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/lm")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/ln")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/lo")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/lp")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/lq")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/lr")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/ls")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/lt")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/lu")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/lv")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/lw")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/lx")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/ly")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/lz")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/dash")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/plus")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/period")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/!")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/question")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/dquote")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/quote")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/dollar")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/euro")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/pound")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/percent")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/caret")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/and")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/star")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/obracket")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/cbracket")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/line")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/fslash")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/bslash")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/tilde")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/equal")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/period")
         S:pushString("ahref/letters/1")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/2")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/3")
         S:pushString("ahref/letters/4")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/5")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/6")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/7")
        S:pushString("ahref/letters/8")
         S:pushString("ahref/letters/9")
    S:pushString("ahref/letters/0")
        holoCreate(1)
holoScale(1,vec(10,10,10))
}

if(A & ~A){
    I++
    holoMaterial(1,S:string(I))
}elseif(B & ~B){
    I--
    holoMaterial(1,S:string(I))
}

[Venompapa]

Very nice.
Can you make alpha backgrounded materials? Better for holograms i think.

[ahref]

They are easier to read with a background.

[Matte]

Moved to WM Addons.

[Beer]

Meh.. noble effort I guess.

I don't see this as being very useful, and I really don't like the fact that the colors are basically chosen for everyone. Letters are also sloppily misaligned.

The colors SHOULD be, in my opinion, black text on white background, so if you change the color of the hologram/prop, it will change the white background to any color you choose and leave the text black. Since there's really no way that I know of to be able to set the text/bg colors separately short of using RT, that would give the most flexibility.

[Unsmart]

How about you rescript the Label stool, to make it able to attach text to holos?

[Pyro-Fire]

Meh.. noble effort I guess.

I don't see this as being very useful, and I really don't like the fact that the colors are basically chosen for everyone. Letters are also sloppily misaligned.

The colors SHOULD be, in my opinion, black text on white background, so if you change the color of the hologram/prop, it will change the white background to any color you choose and leave the text black. Since there's really no way that I know of to be able to set the text/bg colors separately short of using RT, that would give the most flexibility.

This.

Fix the aligning and put them on a white background, and it will probably get commited

[ahref]

there are NO aligning issues. they are all aligned to the centre of the material. You see them misaligned there because doors are not even in their width.

You should have tried them before thinking this :P.

As for the colors that shouldn't be a problem. Whilst i do the colors i may do lowercase letters aswell. Does anyone want symbols aswell. i would do "!,."



See they align perfectly on things with equal proportions.

[Unsmart]

That's kickass, Im adding this to my server when I get back, it looks really good on those holos, also, yes , Id like ", ! ? as well lol.

[ahref]

Okay everything is done. Fireworks really wasn't helpful. I tried batch commanding it but .

Gotta run a few more batch scripts and then reupload :P.

DONE :P:



Ill update the first post with the new zip