optional attribute for flying-text to anchor it to another entity

[Godmave]

with anchor being the entity

possible version:

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anchor.surface.create_entity{name = "flying-text", anchor=anchor, position = {0,0.5}, text = text, color = {r=1,g=0,b=0}}

or to better differentiate it from the normal variant:

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anchor.surface.create_entity{name = "flying-text", anchor=anchor, offset = {0,0.5}, text = text, color = {r=1,g=0,b=0}}

So, if you do that to a rolling stock or any other moving entity the text will follow it around.

Also nice to have attributes would be

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speed 

and

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ttl

(0=never die) so you do not have to tinker with the datastage for such simple things.

[darkfrei]

And direction / rotation of entity?

It will be nice to have sticker with text. As option, glue this sticker to the player.

[Klonan]

It would be better, to add rendering text to the highlight box entity, rather than give the flying text the ability to follow the entity.

[eradicator]

It would be better, to add rendering text to the highlight box entity, rather than give the flying text the ability to follow the entity.

Does that imply highlight boxes can already follow entities :3?

I tried ontick teleporting a flying text onto a car the other day and was shocked how expensive that is.

[Bilka]

Hello, this has been solved with the text object in the script rendering implemented in 0.17: https://lua-api.factorio.com/0.17.0-pre ... ering.html