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Multiplayer adding player names and health above each player
I'm making a 3rd person navy game where all the players are ships. In the networked version I want to make sure that each player's name show above their ship. I would prefer using GUIText so the text stays the same size no matter the range. Is there a good example out there, or can some one give me show me a little code to give me the general idea of how to do this?
Thanks.
Use this script on the wiki.
http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=ObjectLabel
here is the real link
Create a 3D Text and write something in the text, now correct it to the ship's head or whatever, remove the text, add to it a networkView and another script from Leepo's tutorial called NetworkRigidbody or something, make sure the obseved slot is networkRigidbody script and not something else, use PlayerPrefs function to save the name they wrote in the beginning - shown in Leepo's tutorial. Leepo's networking tutorial : http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=30788
Try this:
private var localName:String; // Holds the local player name
private var namePlatePos : Vector3;
var namePlate:GUIStyle;
function OnGUI() {
// Place the name plate where the gameObject (player prefab) is
namePlatePos = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(gameObject.transform.position);
GUI.Label(Rect((namePlatePos.x-50), (Screen.height - namePlatePos.y+10), 100, 50), localName, namePlate);
}
This is going to be the key to your implementation: http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Camera.WorldToScreenPoint.html
Basically have a GUIText object point to a transform, and every frame set its position using that function. I think GUIText objects use normalized screen space (so 0-1 instead of 0-Screen.width/height), but that should just be a simple division by Screen.width/height to get the coordinates to be correct.
Awesome, thanks for all the quick responses, I will check out all the links and see what works best.
Just letting you know, this isn't like a forum. You should make a comment on one of the answers. Good luck!
