Text Follwing A Mesh

Blitz3D Forums/Blitz3D Programming/Text Follwing A Mesh

RyanD

(Posted 2004) [#1]

I've been trying to make text follow a mesh for about a day and a half now, trying different ideas but none seem to work :( Can some1 explain to me what I would do to make text follow a mesh. I've tried making it a type and that didn't work, my freind says i should make an invisible sprite follow the mesh and then the text follow the sprite. Would that be a good idea?

AntonyWells

(Posted 2004) [#2]

Camera =your camera. Entity=Mesh to anchor text to, txt=text etc.

function printMesh(Camera,Entity,txt$,centreX=false,centreY=false)
    cameraproject camera,entityX(entity,true),entityY(entity,true),entityZ(entity,true)
    tx#=projectedX()
    if tx>0 and tx<graphicsWidth()
        ty#=projectedY()
        if ty>0 and ty<graphicsheight()
              text tx,ty,txt$,centreX,centreY
        endif
    endif
end function

jhocking

(Posted 2004) [#3]

Define "follow." Do you mean the text will wrap around the mesh, or simply that the text is displayed on top of the mesh?

BlitzSupport

(Posted 2004) [#4]

Is this what you mean?

http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=13