Show text by looking on a sign

Hello,

I'm looking for way to show text by posting with the mouse on a sign, like Firewatch does it.
Has somebody an idea? My searches led sadly to nothing.

 

When you give a reference to a game, it's a good idea to also post a screenshot of what you mean. Don't assume others have played the game or even know what you are referencing.

It doesn't sound complex, but I have never played Firewatch, so it could be simple or complex.

 

True and thanks for the reminder. Please find attached the screen grab. When the mouse points to the sign it shows me the text.

 

Most likely this is just a raycast/linecast with a set max distance so the user has to be close to it. When the raycast/linecast hits an object, you can code it to check for a script/interface/tag, something to indicate it has a text popup.

Let's just say it's a script. That script may have a reference to the text itself or a way of pulling the text from elsewhere, but either way, you could just grab the script, call a method (DisplayPopupText() for example) which then populates the text and turns it on.

Hopefully that gives you some idea of what to look into.

 

Thanks for the reply! I dive into this!