[Mike_Peterson]

Hey guys, this time I need some help ^^

Anyway, since I'm working on a gamemode I'm forced to use textdraws to make it attractive, in my years of scripting I have only done one or two textdraws with simple text.. I really hate creating textdraws..
So, I want to create an 1-colored rectangle box, and have several textdraws in that box..
How do I create such empty rectangle box? and still be able to change the size?
Whenever I use a blank string for the textdrawstring, the box will be the correct width, but not the correct height.. and for some reason I can only modify the box size horizontally..
And yes, I happen to be using an edited version of Zamaroht's Textdraw Editor

[park4bmx]

Hide the text by setting the string to "_" and then change the letter size which will let you change hight of the box

[Mike_Peterson]

Yep, read just before you posted it:
Important Note: text[] must NOT be empty or the server will crash! If you need a textdraw that shows nothing, use " " (a space) or _ (underscore)

I was using a space, but the underscore worked

I will probably need textdraws help sometime soon again, if happens I'll bump this thread.

[park4bmx]

Well, Now,
Why u say that ??
Read my post I said use the symbol "underscore" which is "_" that will not crash anything!
You read not me

[Mike_Peterson]

Your English seems not so well,
what I was saying is that I read your fix before you posted it, on the wiki.
And that I would probably need some help again, sometime soon.

Thanks for ur help though.

[Mike_Peterson]

I am really sorry for double posting, but I got a more urgent question..
I made a sort of tracking system for bone county, pressing a key will open the map for bone county, i got a dot texture-textdraw, and i want it to be tracking the player.. But ofcourse setting the textdraw's x,y coordinates are not the same as the player co-ordinates..
so how would I link these two? either It's not possible or it's possible with a very difficult math formula which I am not aware of..

edit: Here's the map that's covering the entire screen

pawn Код:

Textdraw0 = TextDrawCreate(-503.000000, -78.000000, "samaps:gtasamapbit1");
TextDrawBackgroundColor(Textdraw0, 255);
TextDrawFont(Textdraw0, 4);
TextDrawLetterSize(Textdraw0, 0.500000, 1.000000);
TextDrawColor(Textdraw0, -1);
TextDrawSetOutline(Textdraw0, 0);
TextDrawSetProportional(Textdraw0, 1);
TextDrawSetShadow(Textdraw0, 1);
TextDrawUseBox(Textdraw0, 1);
TextDrawBoxColor(Textdraw0, 255);
TextDrawTextSize(Textdraw0, 860.000000, 872.000000);

Textdraw1 = TextDrawCreate(357.000000, -78.000000, "samaps:gtasamapbit2");
TextDrawBackgroundColor(Textdraw1, 255);
TextDrawFont(Textdraw1, 4);
TextDrawLetterSize(Textdraw1, 0.500000, 1.000000);
TextDrawColor(Textdraw1, -1);
TextDrawSetOutline(Textdraw1, 0);
TextDrawSetProportional(Textdraw1, 1);
TextDrawSetShadow(Textdraw1, 1);
TextDrawUseBox(Textdraw1, 1);
TextDrawBoxColor(Textdraw1, 255);
TextDrawTextSize(Textdraw1, 860.000000, 872.000000);

Now I only expect someone like ****** or so to come up with such a great math formula, or anyone smart ofcourse

Thanks in advance

[Mike_Peterson]

Any1 good at maths?

[SKAzini]

Also, for the future, you could use iPLEOMAX's textdraw editor since it has more features and is much easier to work with.

[park4bmx]

ok, if you really need this then you will have to run alot of test to get what to take away or add to the pos in the textdraw.

I mean like if you set the player pos to X:20,Y:20, and set that to the textdraw it will not show so then you find the right pos in the textdraw and see what it is if its like X:130,Y:200 then you would take away 110 from x and 180 from y if u know what i mean.

edit Never worked with things like this, will need to try one day.

[Mike_Peterson]

SKAzini, Zamaroht's editor does whatever it has to do, easy for me to use aswell..
and park4bmx, I have no clue what you are talking about.. I did try like finding a point on the textdraw (640x480 canvas), area 51 spawn wud be x419, y255 on the screen.. and
x220,y1917 in-game co-ordinates, i believe. Then I did the same at Big ear, trying to find some sort of ratio, whatsoever but that didn't work..
I know one guy who's interested in these kind of problems, and already had a working version, Mauzen. But currently he's not responding..

So unfortunately I still need assistance.