MMORPG style nameplates

Unity Engine
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What would be the best method for nameplates above characters’ heads?

I seem to recall someone saying that ScreenSpaceOverlay is best, although I think that world geometry wouldn’t hide nameplates from characters behind the geometry (mountains, walls, etc).

There’s also WorldSpace - but would that mean one canvas per character? That could be a lot of canvases.

I’m really not sure which way to turn with this problem.

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Individual world space canvasses would probably be the easiest because you could just parent them to the characters and have them orient themselves to the camera. Seems somewhat wasteful, but I expect the performance isn’t that different than doing it with text meshes.