Text on billboard

[interceptor]

I'm trying to add some custom text to a billboard, so the user can change what it says. I really can't work out how to do this, or even how to explain it, so i have a picture to explain what i'm trying to do.

This is from Garry's Mod, the text in the bill is changable.



Any ideas folks?

Thanks in advance.

[JP]

use the scene manager to add a billboard text scene node (probably) and then use functions from the scene collision manager (use shown in the collision tutorial) to detect a mouse click on the billboard and then you can handle putting different text in it.

[interceptor]

Ah, i'm so stoopid, it didnt even occour to me that there would be a text based billboard. Durrr.

Thanks!

[interceptor]

Quick related question,

THe textbillboard needs a const wchar_t. I have an irr::c8, how can i convert an irr::c8 to a const wchar_t? i tryed a cast like

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(const wchar_t *)myirrstring

but it doesnt seem to work? :S Sometimes it returns "0" depending on what the string is.

[JP]

c8 cstr = "hello";
core::stringw wstr(cstr);

core::stringw::c_str() returns a wchar_t* for you

[interceptor]

c8 cstr = "hello";
core::stringw wstr(cstr);

core::stringw::c_str() returns a wchar_t* for you

You're a bloody legend! Thank you!