Z Offset of text tag

[Ultimatony]

I'm trying to move some text to come up to the left of a unit, but setting it to -5 does the same as 5, moving it right :/

What do I set it to be left?

 

[WaterKnight]

You have tilted the unit 90 degree around the y-axis, or your camera?

The z dimension goes into height. When you look with the standard camera angles on a unit, "left" would mean to decrease the y-coordinate.

Are we talking about texttags? Do you mean SetVelocity-function? It does not offer an option for z movement.

 

[Ultimatony]

Oh, well I change it in the trigger that creates the text tag.
I want 2 rows for text above the hero, one a little to left, one a little to right

Setting it to 5 or -5 moved the text to the right.

 

[WaterKnight]

Not for me. Maybe you mistake that because texttags are generally written to the right. The location you define is not the center but from where the first character starts. So you would need to move it even more to the left to compensate.

 

[Ultimatony]

Hm, ok I see, it looked like it was right but it was prolly just higher than normal :/

Is there a way to move it over a bit? I don't see a make text with offset of position of unit

The goal is to not have normal attacks damage numbers right on top of ability damage numbers
I'd like for people to be able to read them.

 

[WaterKnight]

You cannot center the text to a location by native and it's resolution-dependent. You could however vaguely increase the offset the more characters the string contains. Or just set a fix greater offset, numbers usually do not become so large.

 

[Ultimatony]

I think i got a solution, if it centers all text, I can just add spaces to either side when i want to move it one way or another.

 

[WaterKnight]

Um, no? It does not center the text. The first sign starts from the specified location. The picture shows all texts with the same origin. Adding spaces to the end will not move it left. Only adding spaces to the front will make it shift rightwards.

 

[Ultimatony]

Oh :/
So is there anything I can do do move text over to the left?

 

[WaterKnight]

Set origin to a lower x-coordinate.

 

[Maker]

Create the ft on a point not on a unit. Use position of unit offset to the left. Add some z-offset also.

 

[Ultimatony]

Ah, floating text at point, I was stumped cause i was trying to edit the floating text over unit and it would only let me stick a unit variable or something talking about a unit couldn't do at position of unit at offset.

I can do that in the floating text at point though

If anyone was wondering
-60 is good offset for text on left

could even bring it in a tad more