Text on the ground? {not a floating text}

[Multiply]

Hi. I've been wondering how they made the text on the ground like in DotA, when you're in -rd mode, and you can choose a hero.
There's a countdown, and it doesn't seem like a floating text.

The reason I don't like floating text, is that it isn't fixed. It's.. well.. floating..

How can I make a text, which is 100% fixed, and maybe centered to a specific place on the ground, or in the center of a region?

 

[Child_0f_Bodom]

Terrain in rd area is flat, and floating text is used there with zero height.

 

[Darkt3mpl3r]

There's no use of floating text. It is made with images

 

[Need_O2]

TextSplat Library - Wc3campaigns

 

[Element of Water]

God don't even go there with images. They're a nightmare to get working.

 

[Need_O2]

I think its something with ubersplats (that should be why pizza guy called it textsplat)

 

[Element of Water]

No, if I know what you're thinking about, textsplats off wc3 campaigns by PitzerMike, he uses images. afaik, he's come up with a way of making images so they work ingame, but its very complicated and probably not worth it in the end. Ubersplats, unfortunately, need models. Do they print the skin of the model onto the ground? I've never tried them.

 

[Need_O2]

eww yea lots of imports, at least it haz a converter (font2blp)

 

[MeKC]

No, if I know what you're thinking about, textsplats off wc3 campaigns by PitzerMike, he uses images. afaik, he's come up with a way of making images so they work ingame, but its very complicated and probably not worth it in the end. Ubersplats, unfortunately, need models. Do they print the skin of the model onto the ground? I've never tried them.

Images are not complicated, if you understand how to use them. Blizzard just was so lame that images only works with a blp file with 1pixel transparent border.

For custom blp import its work fine, but you cant use them with ingame.

 

[Element of Water]

You can use them with some ingame ones... and there is the problem with the image needing to have 32 bits but no alpha channel, the power of 2 size restrictions, etc, etc...

 

[Multiply]

I think someone told me to use TextSplat, and the system text is so.. long. Is there a way to store a system in a file, import it, and include it?

 

[Element of Water]

No I don't think so, but you can just hide it all in a trigger.

 

[Multiply]

Isn't that just for each trigger you can do that?

 

[Element of Water]

No you can put whole systems in any trigger then use them from anywhere (well, with vJass systems you can anyway).

 

[Multiply]

Does NewGen support vJass?


Edit:
Never mind that question. I just read alot tutorials about it, and I'm now making my map vJass, instead of just random Converted GUI->JASS

Edit2:
Problem solved, by the way. Thank you all for your help. I'm using TextSplat, tho, I had to include alot images, which took quite some time.

 

[Element of Water]

Can't you just use "import folder"?

 

[Multiply]

I had to rename it all, to do that.