Mounting static shape to bot / having static shape follow bot around

[Darksaber2213]

I'm hosting a rc bot racing server and I would like to know who won without asking "did you come in 1st place?" to the racers.
The obvious solution would be to have shapenames above the bots. But from lots of searches I have found the only way to do this is to have a static shape follow the bot around. How would I do this?

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[$trinick]

You can set shapenames directly onto vehicles. %vehicle.setShapeName("____");

[Darksaber2213]

You can set shapenames directly onto vehicles. %vehicle.setShapeName("____");

its an RC bot, the RC Sapper / bomber. That one. I think it's a bot.

[$trinick]

Oh, sorry. I totally misread your post.

There's really no good way to show a shapename on a bot. It can be done, but rarely do you get a good effect from it.

[Darksaber2213]

Oh, sorry. I totally misread your post.

There's really no good way to show a shapename on a bot. It can be done, but rarely do you get a good effect from it.

is it still possible though?

[$trinick]

Sure, it's possible. One way is to create a static shape and send it to approximately the position of the bot's head about a hundred times a second.

[Port]

Another way which yields smooth movement but doesn't seem to always work (nor allows whichever offset you want) is creating a camera, setting a shape name on it and making the camera spy the bot.