Changeable Name Signs

[K4andT1lover]

All,
Is anyone aware of instructions anywhere for creating changeable name signs? I'm thinking primarily for hanging / mounted station boards. I have downloaded a couple, and they would do in a pinch. But being a little OCD, I wanted to create my own.
Any tips are much appreciated.
Ron

 

[johnwhelan]

From memory you create a plane for the sign and then add an attachment point. The lettering goes on the attachment point and it is added in the config.txt file.

<kuid:86627:100564> is an example.

Cheerio John

 

[ray_whiley]

Yes, that is how I made my station platform nameboards many years ago - although I used boxes rather than planes so that the name could be on each side - thus two attachment points facing out in opposite directions. You then add the following after the word autocreate in the config:
effects
{
0
{
kind name
fontsize 0.25
fontcolor 255,255,255
att a.name0
name name
}
1
{
kind name
fontsize 0.25
fontcolor 255,255,255
att a.name1
name name
}
}

"name name" makes it so that you can click on it with the properties button (question mark) to add your own wording otherwise "name Thistown" (for example) would show that word - and you can have a different word on each side.

Hope that helps.

Ray