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Multi-Color llSetText?

Androclese Antonelli
Org. B-Day: 05/11/04
Join date: 25 Apr 2006
Posts: 96
05-26-2006 07:04
I remember seeing them in-world in the past.

A single object that has text above it in multiple colors.

e.g.

Hello

I have attempted to do it myself with not success. Anybody know how this was done?
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The Sculpted Garden

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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,785
05-26-2006 08:16
Mutiple prims running some kind of parser.
I don't know anything past that.
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Androclese Antonelli
Org. B-Day: 05/11/04
Join date: 25 Apr 2006
Posts: 96
05-26-2006 08:23
From: Burke Prefect
Mutiple prims running some kind of parser.
I don't know anything past that.


perhaps each script writes a letter and back/forward fills the rest of the text with spaces, making it look like there are multiple colors?

(thinking out-loud here)
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The Sculpted Garden

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Bitzer Balderdash
Dazed and Confused
Join date: 21 Dec 2005
Posts: 246
05-26-2006 08:43
cheat and use a custom texture on a particle - if you don't want to be able to change the message
Androclese Antonelli
Org. B-Day: 05/11/04
Join date: 25 Apr 2006
Posts: 96
05-26-2006 09:06
From: Bitzer Balderdash
cheat and use a custom texture on a particle - if you don't want to be able to change the message


I'm looking to give a sort of status message as I load up the configuration files on my appliation.

I wanted to have a row of black pipes and then turn each on red as the files loaded.

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Oh well, no biggie, it was just something to try out.
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The Sculpted Garden

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yetihehe Saarinen
Registered beast
Join date: 19 Feb 2006
Posts: 40
05-26-2006 10:28
It could be something like ||||......
Eloise Pasteur
Curious Individual
Join date: 14 Jul 2004
Posts: 1,952
05-26-2006 10:33
Two ways - a texture that you offset to move the "bar" along.

A string of prims making the hover text one letter at a time.