Drawing name CENTERED over players head

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robert123

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• Nov 23, 2003

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Hi, I wanted to be able to draw the player name over the head of the player. I managed to do this, but I still don't know how to render it centered over the players position. Do you know how can I acchieve this?

Currently rendered text:

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     PlayerName
    O
  -||-
   / \

What I want:

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PlayerName
     O
   -||-
    / \

Thanks

 

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If I could get the width of the drawn text, I could calc the new position, but I don't know how to do that.

 

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• Nov 23, 2003

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well, the player name variable is a string. Have you tried checking PlayerName.length() or PlayerName.size().

 

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That would return me the size of the string in characters, what I need is the width of the string in pixels...

 

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• Nov 23, 2003

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Search harder, this may possibly aid you.

Canvas.TextSize(coerce string String, out float XL, out float YL );

This should return two floats, one being the length of the string and the other the height. Unsure about the font however.

 

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Code:

float XL, YL;
Canvas.TextSize("PlayerName",XL,YL);
Canvas.SetPos(PlayerLocationX-(XL/2),PlayerLocationY);
Canvas.DrawTextClipped("PlayerName");

gives ya what you want and should be easy enuf to understand.
i've used this many a time and it always produced fine results.

 

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Thank u very much.