Hide markers when not in field of view

[steeffeen]

Or simply read the maniascript source file.

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enum ELabelsVisibility {
 None,
 Never,
 Always,
 WhenInFrustum,
 WhenVisible,
 WhenInMiddleOfScreen,
};

where are not talking about name labels
that the UI has attributes to define the visibility of player name labels doesn't mean that the xml tag for Hud3dMarkers has such an attribute as well

[steeffeen]

i noticed that the hiding and showing of markers with the visibility="WhenVisible" attribute is quite delayed and i wonder why it's the case
the client knows the position of the player and of the marker, shouldn't it be possible to hide the marker as soon as it's behind something?
i guess the check for visibility isn't performed each tick for performance reasons?

[steeffeen]

i'm facing a problem with markers visiblity
lets say we have custom object like a crystal which can be picked up and carried by a player, while it's picked up the player is marked with a marker visiblity="WhenInFrustum" which works quite fine
but while the object is dropped it needs to be marked still because it could be on the other end of the map and not visible directly, when we use "WhenInFrustum" and the player is actually seeing the object itself the crystall is kinda doubled, because you see the crystall object AND the crystall marker, i think that's not really nice..
the only solution i see is a value like visiblity="WhenNotInMiddleOfScreen"

is there a chance that this value could be implemented?
or does anyone have a better solution?

btw: just to point that out again, the attribute is called "visiblity" and not "visible"

[Akbalder]

There may be an ugly solution.
You can create a second fake marker displaying nothing with the visiblity WhenInMiddleOfScreen.
In the marker's maniascript, you can check if this second marker is visible to show or hide the real marker.

[steeffeen]

There may be an ugly solution.
You can create a second fake marker displaying nothing with the visiblity WhenInMiddleOfScreen.
In the marker's maniascript, you can check if this second marker is visible to show or hide the real marker.

oh god
i will try that xD

//Edit: just want to note that this solution works! thanks for the hint