Keeping Dynamic Text Constrained To a Text Box

Jacob_Morris · December 5, 2013, 3:48pm

Hello, I am new to the game engine in blender and have been working on a short game to improve my skills. I created a seperate scene and overlayed it. This new scene will contain the objectives and will update as the games goes along. I setup text with a string variable and it works whenever I change the variable but is not contained within the text box. How do I get around this?

Kiva · December 5, 2013, 3:55pm

You probably want to wrap the text at a certain character limit.
This will make it so that after a line exceeds a given number of characters (Ex: ‘a’ ‘b’ ‘2’ etc.) any more words in that line will be moved to the next line.

Try different character limits until you find one that keeps all of the text within your textbox.

For example, my game uses the following module to wrap text:

github.com

Kiva-Entertainment/yohk/blob/master/script/textControl.py

# Operations done to text

# Wrap the given text at the given character limit so that no line of text is longer
# than the limit
def wrap(text, characterLimit):
	wrappedText = ''
	for line in text.split('\n'):

		# Form fragments from line split at spaces
		fragments = line.split(' ')
		for fragment in fragments:
			
			# The last line of the string being formed
			lastLine = wrappedText.split('\n')[-1]
			fragmentFits = ( len(lastLine) + len(fragment) <= characterLimit )
			
			if fragmentFits:
				wrappedText += fragment + ' '
			else:
				# Fragment does not fit on line, put on new line

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