Displaying dynamic texts

Hi All,
Most of you know how a lucky chair works. It has a dynamic text being displayed every 20 mins. It is an alphabet.

I want to understand how to make this dynamic text. Is this texutres? Do we need to import 26 textures of all characters?

How is it embedding the alphabet in the chair. Any comments are valuable.

Thanks
Youpee

Need a little clarification. I don't pay attention to lucky chairs much, but most of them just use hovertext that I've seen.

Are you needing one that has the "The lucky letter is: " as a texture on the chair itself?

What most do for this kind of text is they have a prim for the letter, and a single texture map that has all alphabetic characters on it spaced evenly, and a script to offset the texture to the correct letter.

For hovertext you just change the llSetText

Check out the xytext scripts on the wiki library.

http://rpgstats.com/wiki/index.php?title=ScriptLibrary

In short - use 1 texture for all your letters and use the texturescale and textureposition to just display the letter you want.

Yes.. you are right.. XyText will do the work.

Thanks lotsssssssss

Technically you only need one texture for a simple alphabet. And then smartly use the texture offset to display the letter you want.

xytext does just that. except with more textures.

Plus using one texture looks a lot better, cause the client has either downloaded it or not. You can read the whole sign at the same time instead of some letters being rezzed and other still a blur. Much nicer solution.

... thinking of that - wouldn't it be nice to be able to put more than one texture on a prim's side?