Yes, that's basically what I'm doing. I'm not having a problem with placing
the text, really. The problem is updating the location of the text as the
objects move.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Labelling objects
> Corysia,
>
> You could just compute the angle to the object that is being labelled
> and translate your text (whatever kind of object you want to put it on)
> a set distance in that direction (of course it would obscure anything
> behind it).
>
> - John Wright
> Starfire Research
>
> Corysia Taware wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking to find a way of displaying the name of an object.
> > OrientedShape3D looks almost like what I'm looking for, but not quite.
I
> > don't want the text to diminish into the distance as the camera moves
away
> > from the object. Most of my objects (planets) will reach such extreme
> > distances that they'll only be points in the distance and
indistiguishable
> > from the stars in the background.
> >
> > I've thought about obtaining the camera location and subtracting that
from
> > the object's and then using an overlay to display the text. But as the
> > camera moves around, the location of the overlay will need to be
updated. I
> > could do this by observing my keyboard and mouse behaviors. But if
there's
> > already a way to do this using OrientedShape3D or a similar object, I'd
like
> > to use it.
> >
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