Move text / limit size

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:27 pm

Is it possible to move the player messageing text? Also the Player info text that comes up when you use the "~" key? My laptop is wide screen so these show up more towards the center than my desktop screen. Thanks for any help.

Post by **Vice** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:59 pm

Not currently, it's actually text rendered to a 3D 'locked' object with a lot of scaling and positioning dependencies (consoles for example). However, you can clear out the text when you want it out of the way with the numpad * key.

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:08 pm

Thanks for the info Vice. I had wanted to move the "~" Text some as when I am docked that info shows in the same area as the display so it is a bit hard to read without undocking first. No biggie just wishfull thinking. Thanks anyway.

Post by **Vice** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:10 pm

I could implement a routine where the HUD is turned off while you press that key or something.

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:16 pm

That may be good but only if others thought something like that would be useful as well. "Coments from others welcome please."

Post by **Vice** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:13 pm

Maybe it would only do that if a console is open.

tha_rami · Post by **tha_rami** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:39 am

How about just repositioning the text? By the way, why again is it displaying player positions? Super-extreme-long-distance-radar?

Staticp · Post by **Staticp** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:26 pm

I would like to be able to move the text as well, I'm working on a cockpit/hud thingie and its "not a big deal" to clear the text with the hotkey, but id like to move it. Maybe have a setting for rows/columns like an HTML table?

0.9 #vertical
0.9 #horizontal
10 #columns
5 #rows

Post by **Marvin** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:46 am

It all looks good on my screen but ... if I needed to move text, I'd prefer it be done the same way you move coordinate and cargo data readouts.

Carwash · Post by **Carwash** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:23 am

I'd like to see the 3d object it's ocked to become positionable via the guages.txt so we can have a 'message screen' in cockpits

Post by **Vice** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:10 pm

I am working on some changes for the message text. I am moving it up into corner the further and reducing some of the spacing so that it doesn't use so much of the screen space. Some graphical highlighting will also be added.

For positioning, two more lines will be added to the chattext.txt option to set the X and Y position.

I'd like to see the 3d object it's ocked to become positionable via the guages.txt so we can have a 'message screen' in cockpits

That is done with lines 10,11, and 17:

10 = Target object vertical position
11 = Target object horizontal position
17 = Target object distance position

[Edited on 3-26-2009 by Vice]