jit.gl.text3d Drawing a variable number of text boxes,different positions/angles

raphael.marczak's icon

Hello,

First of all, I want to thank all the contributors on this forum. They helped me a lot, and they saved me a lot of time every time I struggled with some programming issues.

Today, I have an issue I can't really find an answer here, and I am wondering if one of you have an idea. This is probably a noob question, sorry about that.

What I am trying to do is to use a list of texts, along with position and angle.
For instance
"foo1" 0. 0. 1. 360.
"bar2" 0. 1. 0. 90.
...

(this list can contain a variable amount of lines)

And I would like, for each item of the list, to have the text ("foo1", "bar2", ...) displayed at the given position and rotated with the given angle.

I know how to use jit.gl.text3d for one text, but I am struggling with it if I need to display a variable number of text boxes, at different places, and with different rotation.

One solution could be to instantiate 40 or 50 jit.gl.text3d, and modify them incrementally... but I doubt this is a elegant solution.
Would be ideal if I can do something similar to jit.gl.sketch: sending different messages to the object to draw shapes at different locations.

Does anyone has some advice for me?

Thank you very much,
Raphael

Christopher Dobrian's icon

See jit.gl.multiple.

llumen's icon

I don't think jit.gl.multiple gives a solution, since you can't write different text at different location. I'd use a poly~system with jit.gl.text3d in it

raphael.marczak's icon

Wow!

Thank you very much both of you, I didn't know any of these objects.
I think that poly will definitely be a good solution for my problem.
(that awkward moment when you realise that you could have done a much better code if you had known this before ;-)).

This is perfect!

llumen's icon

in many cases I use poly~ instead of multiple, probably at the expense of cpu.

what I do is I have a matrix with coord sent to all pony instances with a send object. then I use a submatrix @dim 1 1 that has an offset in relation to thispoly~voice number to have just the data in the matrix I want.

the text itself could be set with a target n, text blabla message to the instance (n)