Floating text follow a unit

[Zhall]

I want to make floating text follow a unit, but it's proving to be difficult.

I also looked around for number models, that would work too, but I cant find them.

I'm making objects orbit around a central object with polar offsets 20 degrees at a time, I tried setting the floating text's velocity to a similiar polar offset, but it just ended up floating off the screen.

Any ideas?

 

[IcemanBo]

Store floating text into a variable.

There is an action to change position of floating text. Fire this action in a periodic trigger.

 

[Zhall]

I have it for every second, any more than that will cause lag, since I will have about 100 units doing this

 

[IcemanBo]

You can easily make it each 0.1 seconds without lags. Btw, it's no good idea to use it for more than hundred units. You cant have more than ~100 floatings at one time, they would overwrite each other if you create more. I don't know exact limit.

If your map lags, it's for sure any other trigger that causes it. Using "Pick every unit" each 0.01 seconds for example would cause heavy lags, or if you have memory leaks in periodic trigger, too.

If you don't know anything about memory leaks you can read a tutorial. You find a link in my signature.

 

[Zhall]

Yes, I know about memory leaks.

I just noticed the limit, seems more like 64 or something, which is really unfortunate, I need a lot.

I've seen maps like space command with 100 tho, so.. maybe it's possible?

 

[Binsu]

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...-displaying-names-being-unable-select-130026/

Might help you there.

 

[Zhall]

I just make it spam every 0.01 to change it's position.

I was able to get 100 text out no problem, and no lag.

Ofc I need to clean all my ****ing leaks, but that's one of the last things I'll go back in do.

Horray for cowboy coding!

 

[Nichilus]

Why make the trigger run at 0.01, when you can slow it down to 0.03 and achieve same results while also decreasing the number of times the trigger runs per second to 1/3 of what you have now?

 

[Zhall]

True,

I assume your using the logic of 30 frames per second as the basis of your conclusion?

0.03 x 30 = 0.90, while 0.01 x 30 = 0.30

Thanks for the suggestion, ill do it.
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