Text visible at a certain distance

[Gravestone]

*fixed* 

Edited May 3, 2016 by Guest

[Walid]

strings = { 
    { "^%[[%w@]+%]", " " }, 
} 
  
nametags_Root = getRootElement() 
nametags_ResRoot = getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()) 
nametags_Players = getElementsByType('player') 
nametags_Me = getLocalPlayer() 
nametag = {} 
  
local nametags = {} 
local sWidth,sHeight = guiGetScreenSize() 
local Nametags_Hide = false 
local Nametags_Scale = 0.30 
local Nametags_Alpha_Distance = 50 
local Nametags_Distance = 200 
local Nametags_Alpha = 255 
local Nametags_Width = 50 
local Nametags_Height = 20 
local Nametags_Size = 0.3 
Nametags_Scale = 1/Nametags_Scale * 800 / sHeight 
local maxScaleCurve = { {0, 0}, {3, 3}, {13, 5} } 
local textScaleCurve = { {0, 0.8}, {0.8, 1.2}, {99, 99} } 
local textAlphaCurve = { {0, 0}, {25, 100}, {120, 190}, {255, 190} } 
  
function nametags.Create ( player ) 
    nametags[player] = true 
end 
  
function nametags.Destroy ( player ) 
    nametags[player] = nil 
end 
  
addEventHandler ( "onClientRender", nametags_Root, 
    function() 
        local x,y,z = getCameraMatrix() 
        for player in pairs(nametags) do 
            while true do 
                if not isElement(player) then break end 
                if getElementDimension(player) ~= getElementDimension(nametags_Me) then break end 
                local px,py,pz = getElementPosition ( player ) 
                local bx, by, bz = getPedBonePosition( player, 5 ) 
                if processLineOfSight(x, y, z, px, py, pz, true, false, false, true, false, true) then break end 
                local playerDistance = getDistanceBetweenPoints3D ( x,y,z,px,py,pz ) 
                if playerDistance <= Nametags_Distance then 
                    --Get screen position 
                    --local sx,sy = getScreenFromWorldPosition ( px, py, pz+0.95, 0.06 ) 
                    local sx,sy = getScreenFromWorldPosition( bx + 0, by, bz + 0.3 ) 
                    if not sx or not sy then break end 
                    --Calculate our components 
                    local scale = 1/(Nametags_Scale * (playerDistance / Nametags_Distance)) 
                    local alpha = ((playerDistance - Nametags_Alpha_Distance) / Nametags_Alpha_Diff) 
                    alpha = (alpha < 0) and Nametags_Alpha or Nametags_Alpha-(alpha*Nametags_Alpha) 
                    scale = math.evalCurve(maxScaleCurve,scale) 
                    local textScale = math.evalCurve(textScaleCurve,scale) 
                    local textAlpha = math.evalCurve(textAlphaCurve,alpha) 
                    local outlineThickness = Nametags_Outline_Thickness*(scale) 
                    --Requirements 
                    local team = getPlayerTeam(player) 
                    local offset = (scale) * Nametags_Text_Bar_Space/2 
                    local playerName = getPlayerName(player) 
                    local r, g, b = getPlayerNametagColor(player) 
                    local chatState = isChatBoxInputActive(player) or isConsoleActive(player) 
          
                    local imageSize = dxGetFontHeight ( textScale*Nametags_Size, "arial" ) 
                    
  
                    for k,v in ipairs (strings) do 
                        if string.find( string.lower ( playerName ),v[1]) then 
                            playerName = playerName:gsub ( v[1], v[2] ) 
                        end 
                    end 
                    
                    
                    
                    --Draw our text 
                                        dxDrawText ( playerName, sx+1, sy - offset+1, sx+1, sy - offset-1, tocolor(0,0,0,200), textScale*Nametags_Size*1, "arial", "center", "bottom", false, false, false, true, true ) -- Shadow           
                                        dxDrawText ( playerName, sx, sy - offset, sx, sy - offset, tocolor(r,g,b,255), textScale*Nametags_Size*1, "arial", "center", "bottom", false, false, false, true, true ) 
                
                    nameWidth = dxGetTextWidth ( playerName, textScale*Nametags_Size, "arial" ) 
                    end 
            end 
        end 
    end 
) 
  
  

Edited May 1, 2016 by Guest

[Gravestone]

c

Edited May 3, 2016 by Guest

[GTX]

Just change Nametags_Distance variable.

[Walid]

Can you make an example ?

simply , as GTX said you can change the Nametags_Distance because you already have all those function.

local Nametags_Distance = 200 

Edit: Check my first post