text player position

[CreativeOcclusion]

i am trying to text the players x y and z at the top of the screen...this code works sort of...i was just wondering if someone has a better snippit of code i can study...this code prints about 6 digits past the decimal and it seems to be inaccurate comparing it to the position of other models in the level...i just need accurate position of the controller called "player" in this code....thanks for your help...

 

 

 

 

//CODE TO GET PLAYER POSITION

 

 

 

TVec3 px=Vec3(playerpos.X);

 

TVec3 py=Vec3(playerpos.Y);

 

TVec3 pz=Vec3(playerpos.Z);

 

 

 

　

//print x,y,z of the player

 

DrawText (0,currentLine*12,"FPS() = %f",FPS()); currentLine++;

DrawText (150,1,"X= %f ",px);

DrawText (275,1,"Y= %f ",py);

DrawText (400,1,"Z= %f ",pz);

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Roland]

DrawText (0,currentLine*12,"FPS() = %f",FPS()); currentLine++;

DrawText (150,1,"X= %f ",playerpos.X);

DrawText (275,1,"Y= %f ",playerpos.Y);

DrawText (400,1,"Z= %f ",playerpos.Z);

[Afke]

 

//CODE TO GET PLAYER POSITION

 

TVec3 px=Vec3(playerpos.X);

TVec3 py=Vec3(playerpos.Y);

TVec3 pz=Vec3(playerpos.Z);

 

//print x,y,z of the player

 

DrawText (0,currentLine*12,"FPS() = %f",FPS()); currentLine++;

DrawText (150,1,"X= %f ",px);

DrawText (275,1,"Y= %f ",py);

DrawText (400,1,"Z= %f ",pz);

 

Roland gave you the best solution. In this case use his code.

 

 

Vec3 has 3 Float values : x,y z

 

So it should be:

 

Float px= playerpos.X;
DrawText (150,1,"X= %f ",px);

 

But you don't need new variable in this case .Make new var only if you have to do same more calculation with it, and you don't want to change original variable.

[CreativeOcclusion]

Thanks Roland, this works perfect...and thanks afke...I am just learning leadwerks and am still learning c++...I really appreciate the help...I should have noticed that i was making a new variable for the same numbers...thanks

[Afke]

Thanks Roland, this works perfect...and thanks afke...I am just learning leadwerks and am still learning c++...I really appreciate the help...I should have noticed that i was making a new variable for the same numbers...thanks

 

No problem man . We are here to help , just ask

 

Cheers

[Dozz]

and if you want the text displaying to say 3 decimal places type %f4.3

[Rick]

In this specific case I think DrawText() takes an int, but I get what you were trying to show. Just don't want to confuse him if he tries that and nothing happens because it truncates the value to an int, which it's doing right now for him anyway

[CreativeOcclusion]

thanks rick,

i will look into that...but everything is working good right now so i might just leave it like it is....and thanks dozz, i did not know that....

[Dozz]

%i is for integer, he has %f which is a float & he already said it displays to 6 places. I don't think it confused

[Rick]

Oh nvm, was mixed up on what param he was using that value for.