place text

place_text

place_text replaces both Text3D and MultiText3D and provides a means to interactively place 2D and 3D renderable text strings or to read a .PT File (or legacy .EMT file) to place the text.

Module Input Ports

• View [View] This is the primary Purple port which connects to the viewer to receive the extent of all objects in the viewer AND outputs the test.
• This port can be used as your only connection from place_text to the viewer and no other connections are needed.
• Minor Ports not needed for most all cases
  • Z Scale [Number] Accepts Z Scale (vertical exaggeration) from other modules
  • Explode [Number] Accepts the Explode distance from other modules

Module Output Ports

• Output For Transform [Renderable] Provides an additional output port if you want to duplicate place_text’s output via a transform_group module.
• Minor Ports not needed for most all cases
  • Z Scale [Number] Outputs Z Scale (vertical exaggeration) to other modules
  • Explode [Number] Outputs the Explode distance to other modules