Floating Text Labels

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I need to render up to 400 (probably no more then 10% of that at once) floating text labels above terrain features.

I know a billboard would work fine, but I don't want 400 files for each label.

I also know that using text is really slow and kills framerates.

I basically just want a rectangle that hovers above the terrain, has a line to the terrain, and that always faces the user.

Any way to dynamically create billboards instead of using text?

Not real sure how to go about it

Thanks,
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[Pavel]

U could use Billboards.
the billboards texture would be created in runtime using rendersurface.
using Rendersurface u render the name using text.


im guessing almost every game does this.

[SylvainTV]

TextureFont_DrawBillboardText

Very fast , and no need for have 60000 files

[Pavel]

cool.
even faster method

[BadSyntax]

Groovy!  Thanks for the quick reply, times like this I bet you really wish you had some docs eh?

Thanks!
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