How can I place text on a unit while it's moving?

[victorsuazo1991]

How can I place a text on the head of a unit, and have it move along with the unit when moving?

 

[Gnuoy]

Not sure there's a great way to do this. It would probably involve creating text, destroying it, then recreating it each time the unit moves.

Maybe something like this?

• refresh text
  • Events
    • Time - timer_Variable_001 expires
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Floating Text - Create floating text that reads test above Cenarius 0000 <gen> with Z offset 0.00, using font size 10.00, color (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%), and 0.00% transparency
    • Floating Text - Change (Last created floating text): Disable permanence
    • Floating Text - Change the lifespan of (Last created floating text) to 0.11 seconds
    • Countdown Timer - Start timer_Variable_001 as a One-shot timer that will expire in 0.10 seconds

*edited

 

[ThompZon]

It is also possible to set floating text up with 1 trigger (and store it in a variable), then have another one that updates every 0.02 seconds or so and move the text to the unit (must also be in a variable) using "custom script":

• MoveFloatingText
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.02 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: call SetTextTagPos(udg_my_floating_text, GetUnitX(udg_follow_hero), GetUnitY(udg_follow_hero), 85.0)

The floating text should be stored in "my_floating_text"-variable and the unit "follow_hero" (of course you can edit the custom script to have any variable-name). The 85 is just the "Z-value" or the text, I.E. how high up it is. You can also add an offset from the floating-text if you want by adding " + 25.0" after the "GetUnitX(udg_follow_hero)" or the Y.

 

[victorsuazo1991]

How can I place text on a unit while it's moving?

 

[Nichilus]

You have already created a thread asking for this: Help!!

 

[Uncle]

There's a GUI action as well:

• Floating Text - Change the position of (Last created floating text) to (Last created unit) with Z offset 0.00.

If you want it to work for multiple units then you can do the following:
Use a Unit Indexer or Hashtable to link the Floating Text to each unit.
Then store all of the desired units in a Unit Group.
Then loop over the Unit Group periodically and update the position of each unit's linked Floating Text.