Brick Mouseover Text?

[Aisling]

I've heard this is possible with items but i'm not sure for bricks. the idea would be an event for center printing text when a player's crosshair is over a brick.

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[soldier101@]

It depends on how it is built...
You could make a continuous raycast. Though I don't think that would be good for performance.
And having a bunch of bricks test for a raycast isn't good either. Especially if it checks on the update.

[Aisling]

looks like it's been made actually, and it's done as you described. I wonder if it tanks performance.

[Blockhead31735]

I wonder if it tanks performance.

It shouldn't.

[soldier101@]

looks like it's been made actually, and it's done as you described. I wonder if it tanks performance.

It probably launches a event. (A coding event, not a visual blockland one.)
Ill have to see the code.
Neat though, very neat.
EDIT: It does a continuous loop. I dont think its bad for performance though.

[soldier101@]

I've heard this is possible with items

Wheres that?

[Conan]

It shouldn't.

it is bad for performance, the more players on the server the more raycast spam is required to make it work, iirc it doesnt even schedule out the raycasts so with a lot of players and a bad server it could lagspike continuously

[Super Suit 12]

I've used Gaze and I've never seen any real performance issues.

[Blockhead31735]

it is bad for performance, the more players on the server the more raycast spam is required to make it work, iirc it doesnt even schedule out the raycasts so with a lot of players and a bad server it could lagspike continuously

The amount of raycasts would be a negligible amount under most circumstances. If it indeed doesn't schedule them, then yes could see it as a problem, but

I've used Gaze and I've never seen any real performance issues.

[Conan]

I've used Gaze and I've never seen any real performance issues.

we used it for halloweenfest 2015 and it had a very notable impact on the server since it was constantly running raycasts for 30+ players, smaller than that would be okay in most scenarios i guess, unless the server has a bunch of other constantly running functions as well.

anyways gaze fulfills the request here so its kindof a moot point. if there ends up being a problem with it performance-wise you can probably get someone to fix it pretty easily.

[Latte]

we used it for halloweenfest 2015 and it had a very notable impact on the server since it was constantly running raycasts for 30+ players, smaller than that would be okay in most scenarios i guess, unless the server has a bunch of other constantly running functions as well.

Xalos's mod fires 100 raycasts for every player every second for some reason. Awful. I can see it having a small performance hit for larger servers.