Custom Text in Camera Viewport

#1

Hi,

I was wondering is it was possible or if anyone knew of the commands that are needed to put some custom text in the camera viewport eg(FPS or object info) as I would like to put my scene names in the view for tracking of shots.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

#2

I know thereā€™s a tool in the Blurbeta pack that does this. You could take a look at that I guess.

#3

Thanks! huge help and fast wow!

:smiley:

#4

Hi, Just Tried the Blur Tools, Doesnā€™t seem to do exactly what i was looking for, Thanks for the idea though.

The Blur tool updates the cameraā€™s name and then uses that name with its code library, Iam trying to show the name of the shot, current frame out of total frame and have all that info displayed in the view port of the camera you are currently viewing threw.

#5

What I meant was that you can look at the script/code that it uses to put that information on screen and then use it to put your own information up yourself.

Sorry I canā€™t help more, someone else more knowledgeable in this area might come along shortly and tell you exactly what to do. :slight_smile:

#6

There was a ā€œSlateā€ shader that more or less did this. Donā€™t know if you can find it easily now, after the disappearing of the Softimage Community site into the Area.

rob

#7

Yeah bravmm I think Kim Aldis and La Maison created the the tools you brought up.

I have no idea how to find them nowadays though. Seriously, finding tools related to XSI is just a complete mess currently.

#8

Well, in the case of tools by Kim Aldis, looking at Kim Aldisā€™ site usually helps: KA_Slate

At the moment the best place to start looking: rray.de

#9

Thanks Hirazi. I went to Kimā€™s site root and couldnā€™t work out how to get into his older site section with XSI scripts. I guess I never took that extra google step :slight_smile:

#10

If youā€™re still ā€œonā€ 32 bit, you could give ā€œxUIā€ a tryā€¦

edit: I havenā€™t tried this myself, as I have been ā€œonā€ 64 bit for quite some time now

#11

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