Help with guieditor / dxDraw

[Cronoss]

I need help with something. I can't find anything about this on the forum, so I'll try to explain it;

 

I want the player to be able to see their information in a panel (created with guieditor / dxDraw)

Example:

Your money: $40.000

Your Health: 100/100

I know this is possible but I don't know wich option I should choose for these "changing texts" :

1.- Using a "DX text" empty and then using some scripting, the player could get his info (?)

2.- Same here but with "label" (guieditor tool) (?)

I'm not posting any code because I'm trying to figure out how to finish it, I just need to know between those options wich is the better way to make this possible

[Hydra]

--// DX Draw

local sx, sy = guiGetScreenSize()
local resW = sx/1920    --// I put sx/1920 bcs my resolution is 1920x1080 you can put sx/your resolution width, I use resW for text scalling

function ShowInfo()
   local theCash = getPlayerMoney(localPlayer)
   dxDrawRectangle(sx * 0.1300, sy * 0.2300, sx * 0.2300, sy * 0.3000, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 210), false)
   dxDrawText("Player Money: "..theCash.."", sx * 0.1400, sy * 0.2700, sx * 0.0300, sy * 0.0300, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.00*resW, "default-bold", "left", "top")
end


function CheckInfo()
   if not infoState then
      infoState = true
      addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, ShowInfo)
   else
      infoState = false
      removeEventHandler("onClientRender", root, ShowInfo)
   end
end
addCommandHandler("info", CheckInfo)




--// GUI

local window = guiCreateWindow(etc...)
local label = guiCreateLabel(etc....)
guiSetVisible(window, false)

local timerUpdateInfo = nil

function updateInfo()
   local theCash = getPlayerMoney(localPlayer)
   guiSetText(label, "Player Money: "..theCash.."")
end

function CheckInfo()
   if guiGetVisible(window) == false then
      guiSetVisible(window, true)
      timerUpdateInfo = setTimer(updateInfo, 1000, 0)
   else
      guiSetVisible(window, false)
      if isTimer(timerUpdateInfo) then
         killTimer(timerUpdateInfo)
         timerUpdateInfo = nil
      end
   end
end
addCommandHandler("info", CheckInfo)

You can use GUI or DX without any problem, now it also depends on what kind of interface you want your server to have. If you want something classic you can use GUI but if you want something based on design and animations then DX it's the best way. I put an example above for the player info

[Cronoss]

I appreciate it, but this wouldn't cause lag problems if I ask for element data? something like this:

function infoPanel()
  local name = getElementData(localPlayer, "character.2")
  --dx draw text blabla "your name: "..name..""
end
addEventHandler("onClientRender", getRootElement(), infoPanel)

 

[Hydra]

13 hours ago, Cronoss said:

I appreciate it, but this wouldn't cause lag problems if I ask for element data? something like this:

function infoPanel()
  local name = getElementData(localPlayer, "character.2")
  --dx draw text blabla "your name: "..name..""
end
addEventHandler("onClientRender", getRootElement(), infoPanel)

 

You can use the element data, it does not produce lag as some people say. I have 10+ element datas on my server and I have no lag. Depends on how you use it too