In-game markers

[shendoo]

Does anyone know how I can create a marker that shows up in-game? For example, a 3D label that is positioned over a point of interest, or information about other entities in the map that are shown over their heads, etc.

Can this be accomplished with markers? I'm pretty clueless about exactly what a marker is. Are they only show on maps?

I've tried creating markers like this, but it only shows up on the map:

_markerstr = createMarkerLocal ["markername", getPos player];
_markerstr setMarkerShape "RECTANGLE";
_markerstr setMarkerSize [20,20];
_markerstr setMarkerColor "ColorGreen";

Thanks in advance.

[shendoo]

This isn't exactly what I was looking for, but could be used for text:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthrea...&highlight=tag



The link to this script, "Name tag Script" by Loyalguard is dead...
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Here's another request, but not much to go on:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthrea...&highlight=tag

[shendoo]

I decided to use a GUI object (display) and dynamically size and adjust it based on player position.

I have some text moving http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/User:Hendo:Tutorialsisplay

Here we go...

[shendoo]

I ended up using GUI objects and scripting to do what I need.

Here's a screen shot of my current app:






The player can drop these icons using a modified laser range finder.

I'm now moving on to adding friendly and neutral icons.