Vector Text in game.

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Is there a way to add TrueTypeFont text into an environment?

I want to add names, to objects in the scene, that the user can see, there may be a few hundred objects, so I want to be able to disable them beyond a certain distance using a script.

I’d like it to be a fixed size on screen, but render to texture seems like it could be a pain to manage for, potentially, so many objects.

also I want the text to clip to the viewport, and possibly clip to the depth buffer, so GUI.Label might not be ideal either.

Any hints?

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I used GUI.Label, centre aligned.

	void OnGUI()
	{
		if(shownames==false) return;
		//if we have names for this object
		if(Names.Count>0)
		{
			//get gameobject.pos+offset_up position in viewport space 
			Vector3 pos = Camera.main.WorldToViewportPoint (transform.position + new Vector3(0.0f,1.2f,0.0f));
			
			//check we're in camera and within 25 units infront of camera (could raycast this to eliminate occluded objects)
			if((pos.x>0.0f)(pos.y>0.0f)(pos.x<1.0f)(pos.y<1.0f)(pos.z>0.0f)(pos.z<25.0f))
			{
				// show the names!
				//get gameobject.pos+offset_up position in screen space 
				pos = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint (transform.position + new Vector3(0.0f,1.2f,0.0f));
				//convert Screen_space to GUI_space
				pos.y = Screen.height-pos.y;
				
				//create one long string of names with return chars ('/n')
				string s = locations[0].getName();
				int i=1;
				while(i<locations.Count)
				{
					s += "\n"+locations[i].getName();
					i++;
				}
				// draw GUI Label
				GUI.Label(new Rect(pos.x-75, pos.y-(12+20*locations.Count), 150,12+20*locations.Count), s, GUI.skin.GetStyle("label"));
			}
		}
	}