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VKC Item Text Plane

HEOTextPlane_1

VKC Item Text Plane will display the designated text at the object position attaching this component.
For example, by Build & Running the world the text will be displayed as below:

HEOTextPlane_3

Available methods for this object type

Settings

Label Initial Value Function
Show true Enable this if you want the text to display by default
Text blank Input the text to be displayed
Scene Preview true Enable/Disable text preview in the Unity editor's Scenet view.
This setting is a beta feature
Font Size 128 Specify the text size
Texture Size X:512 Y:512 Specify the base resolution for the displayed text texture
Value needs to be a power of two!
Text Alignment Left Top Set the text alignment and centering for display
Color #FFFFFF Specify the text color
Wrap Text false Enable/Disable automatic text wrapping
Look at Camera false Make the text face towards the camera at all times
Alpha Blending true Lets you use cutout/transparency

Note

In the Text property, if you want to insert a line break, specify "\n" in the string.
If you input any other regular expressions (e.g. tab "\t", line break "\r", backspace "\b"), a build error will occur.

Advanced

Label Initial Value Function
Auto Loading true When enabled, this Item will be loaded automatically on world entrance.
As this Item must be explicitly loaded when Auto Loading is disabled, use Dynamic Loading or use Load() on HeliScript.
Clickable false Toggles acceptance of click input from player
Character Space 0.0 Set the character space by pixel
Line Space 1.0 Set the line space by pixel
Z-Bias -0.05 Higher z value will make the text drawn in front of other objects
Show Photo Mode true Toggles display/hide item when in photo mode
Overrides On Entering the world, the text set in this text property will be used instead Text in VKC Item Text Plane.

Note

The Overrides property is currently under progress.
Further usage are to be added by future updates.

By enabling preview, the designated text will be shown in the Scene view as below:

HEOTextPlane_2

Note

The Billboard setting in pre-Ver9.3 components has been renamed to Look at Camera.
If the scene data is migrated from past SDK versions, the Billboard setting value will be reflected to Look at Camera.