Add text positioning on "Display Text" please!

Hunnenkoenig

Due to debuging reasons I want to show all my self.attribute infos on screen, but I can't because every text will be shown in the middle.

The align function does absolutely nothing.

I have 3-5 attributes in "self", which I need to see in real time on screen to find the bug which causes me headache since days.

If there were a positioning tool, like by the "Spawn Actor" then I could position all my textes for the actor so I can read it.

Because I can't display text in an actor from the self attributes of another actor, I think, this is the only way to get that info.

If there is another solution, please let me know.

CoIin

You can have the actor you're trying to watch set a game variable, and then have other actors with Display Text to watch those variables. Then you can spread those text actors all over the place.

Hunnenkoenig

The problem is, I have 5 actors from the same master and I need the data from each.

It is a bit a big job to make every actor a game attribute for every self attribute. If you know, what I mean.

I would need 5x5 game attributes to make and 5x5 rules to set those self attributes to game atributes.

I mean, probably I have to do it, but it would be nice if in the future we could simple place textes where we want.

Don't you think?

scitunes

It is far from perfect but you can try changing the colors and font sizes. It is still a real pain, but if you pick colors and sizes that you can tell apart and you write down what each color represents you can figure it out. I think it works best to put smaller darker fonts first and lighter larger fonts after, which means you may have to put them in in the opposite order (can't remember!)

Hunnenkoenig

scitunes, I did exactly this.

The text which you want to have in front, needs to be the last in the line.

Thanks! :-)

scitunes

glad it worked for you