How to Create All Around Billboard With Text

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Stan Davis asked Oct 8, '21 Stan Davis commented Oct 11, '21

I am attempting to create an 'All Around Billboard' that contains text, but I can't get the text to stay with the billboard.

Using this answer as a starting point...

I added text to a visual plane (the text is contained by the plane)...

However, when I change the plane's billboard mode to 'All Around Billboard ', I get this with the text still on the floor.

I tried another approach by simply adding a 'Screen Locked Billboard' text...

and then changing it to an 'All Around Billboard' but I just get a black panel...

So how does one create an 'All Around Billboard' with text that stays with the billboard??

Thanks

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.2.3

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Answer 1 · 2021-10-10T03:16:35Z

Jeanette F answered Oct 10, '21 Stan Davis commented Oct 11, '21

I followed the advice given by Dawid Dabal and Phil Bobo in this post.

In either the slide or plane with text I created an On Draw trigger with the following code...

current.rotation = [90+viewpointrx(view).value, 0, viewpointrz(view).value];

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Stan Davis commented · Oct 11, 2021 at 01:00 PM

Thanks Jeanette. Greatly appreciated. - Stan

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