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Frank Elderslie
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Join date: 26 Oct 2006
Posts: 8
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12-12-2006 15:51
Is there a way for one to use a notecard as the source of text for an object. If not, is there a way, in-world, to convert a notecard to a texture. Basicly, I'd like to create a poster with text that I can change easily.
-Frank
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Chosen Few
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Join date: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 7,496
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12-12-2006 18:52
You can use a notecard to feed hover text, but hover text is quite limited in length.
You can't convert a notecard to a texture inworld. In fact, you can't create textures inworld of any sort. For that you need Photoshop, or another decent paint program.
If you wanted to invest enough prims, I suppose you could probably rig up a Xytext device to read and display the contents of your entire notecard, but man, that would be a lot of prims. Xytext uses one prim per character, kind of like a scoreboard. A whole page would require thousands of prims.
The best thing you can do for now is put your text onto textures in a paint program. The best thing in the long run will be the <cough> coming soon <cough> HTML on a prim. When we get that, it will be fantastic. You'll be able to display web pages right on prims. That'll beat the hell out of notecards. Simply put your text somewhere on the web, plug in the URL on your prim, and the text will display. HTML on a prim has been "coming soon" for a couple of years now though, just so you know.
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Renee Roundfield
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Join date: 10 Mar 2006
Posts: 278
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12-13-2006 04:00
Actually xytext can have 10 characters per prim if you use the double character font set and a 5 sided prim. but still.
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