how do you make Green floating text?

How do we create those specialty HUD text bits that float over people's heads in certain sims? Like the HUD display for the Misty Island Roleplayer's group, or certain job titles in Tombstone Arizona...?

I'm about to run a RIPPER murder mystery game in Caledon. I will need to be able to create these to show that people have been eliminated from the game, either as victims of the Ripper (in which case, they would have "MURDER VICTIM" floating over their heads) or as victims of the Mob (in which case they would have "VICTIM OF MOB VIOLENCE" floating over the head). It is VERY important for game play purposes that the referee not loose track of the player's status, and it struck me that the glowing green or red text banners would be perfect for this purpose.

Any assistance is most appreciated.

Thank you,

Hotspur O'Toole

Hi Hotspur, search on titler. I was given one ages ago but not got round to playing with it yet.

HUD is something separate. It's an object that displays as part of the SL user interface rather than in-world. What you are talking about is probably just a prim attachment. You'd change textures (the text) with a script. If the moderator sets the titles manually, you could do that with a HUD, if that's what you have in mind. That'd also be done with scripting.

IIRC, you use llSetText on a prim attached to the avatar (not the HUD).

I will drop you a freebie script in world. Just change the settings on the script and place in an object you can wear. If you need to change the script on the fly to indicate a change in player status, that gets more complicated and you might need a custom script for that.

So...

I would create an object using right click/create object (assuming one of those plywood boxes will show up). and give it these attributes?

llSetText("MURDER VICTIM", <1,0,0>, 1.0);

or

llSetText("VICTIM OF MOB VIOLENCE", <1,0,0>, 1.0);

Is that how it's done?

H.

Thanks! due to a munged PC I won't be in world until Friday or so.

Much obliged.

H.

That would be red, but that's the gist of it. Change the <1, 0, 0> to <0, 1, 0> for green.