Hovering letters above a prop when you look at it.

[Staneh]

Hey guys, i've been messing around with some things, and I want to know, how do you make it that if you look at a specific model, like a box, it shows up BOX in the middle of the screen when u look at it? Help would be greatly appreciated.

[Aide]

Letters like? Model path or Owner of the prop?

[Staneh]

Model Path.

[Lebofly]

So basically you want a Small Transparent VGUI That comes up with a small picture of the prop and its name?

[Staneh]

No, I dont want model path to be displayed, but, if you look at that specific model path, that a text shows up.

[Willox]

What letters does a text consist of if i spawn a melon?

[Busymonkey]

[QUOTE=Staneh;22578674]if you look at that specific model path, that a text shows up.[/QUOTE]

It's not a specific model path, just a specific model.

Like, if you look at a melon, a HUD or something comes above it, like when looking at a player, and seeing his name, it's LULMELON.

[decyg]

I think he wants the "pretty" name of what prop he is looking at, for example if he was looking at a chair, it would print "chair" somewhere.

[Busymonkey]

As stated in the post above you.

Im unfortuneately unable to help you, though.

[decyg]

Gah, rate me bad reading.

[ralle105]

[lua]
local niceNames = {
["path/to/model"] = "Nice Name",
["etc/etc/etc"] = "Nice Etc"
}

hook.Add("HUDPaint", "TestScreen", function()
local tr = LocalPlayer():GetEyeTrace()
if tr.Entity then
local x, y = tr.Entity:GetPos():ToScreen()
draw.SimpleText(niceNames[tr.Entity:GetModel():lower()] or "Unknown", "Default", x, y, Color(255, 255, 255, 255), 1, 1)
end
end)
[/lua]

Something like this then?

[Bagasen]

[QUOTE=ralle105;22605255][lua]
local niceNames = {
["path/to/model"] = "Nice Name",
["etc/etc/etc"] = "Nice Etc"
}

hook.Add("HUDPaint", "TestScreen", function()
local tr = LocalPlayer():GetEyeTrace()
if tr.Entity then
local x, y = tr.Entity:GetPos():ToScreen()
draw.SimpleText(niceNames[tr.Entity:GetModel():lower()] or "Unknown", "Default", x, y, Color(255, 255, 255, 255), 1, 1)
end
end)
[/lua]

Something like this then?[/QUOTE]

This one does not work.

[B]Hook 'TestScreen' Failed: lua\includes\modules\draw.lua:76: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'x' (a table value)[/B]

[ralle105]

[lua]
local niceNames = {
["path/to/model"] = "Nice Name",
["etc/etc/etc"] = "Nice Etc"
}

hook.Add("HUDPaint", "TestScreen", function()
local tr = LocalPlayer():GetEyeTrace()
if tr.Entity and !tr.Entity:IsWorld() then
local p = tr.Entity:GetPos():ToScreen()
draw.SimpleText(niceNames[tr.Entity:GetModel():lower()] or "Unknown", "Default", p.x, p.y, Color(255, 255, 255, 255), 1, 1)
end
end)
[/lua]

Try this instead.

[MegaJohnny]

Isn't it string.lower(tr.Entity:GetModel())? somestring:lower() looks like something out of E2.

[Bagasen]

It works, but while I'm not looking at anything, it says "Unknown" at the middle of the map (Vector(0,0,0)).

[B]Simple solution:[/B] Change "Unknown" to " ".

[ralle105]

[QUOTE=MegaJohnny;22647318]Isn't it string.lower(tr.Entity:GetModel())? somestring:lower() looks like something out of E2.[/QUOTE]

In gmod strings have the string table as meta table so any string function can be called either by string.whatever(str,...) or str:whatever(...) it does the exact same thing:wink:

[editline]02:54AM[/editline]

[QUOTE=Bagasen;22647367]It works, but while I'm not looking at anything, it says "Unknown" at the middle of the map (Vector(0,0,0)).

[B]Simple solution:[/B] Change "Unknown" to " ".[/QUOTE]

Fixed that:v:

[Staneh]

Awesome, thanks.