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3D2D Textscreens

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Content Type: Addon

Addon Type: Tool

Addon Tags: Fun, Roleplay

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Nov 22, 2012 @ 7:57pm

May 2 @ 1:26pm

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Description

Create 3D2D text anywhere in the world.

[nodecraft.com]

This addon is now open source! Contribute to development of this addon on GitHub[github.com]. All pull requests are welcomed!
This tool can be found under "Construction" in your tool menu.

Features:

Create 3D2D text anywhere in the world
Rotate and manipulate this text simply via your physgun
Up to 5 lines of text
Multiple different fonts, font sizes, and colours
Heavily optimised
- Full scale testing on a highly popular RP server
- Draw distance optimisations
- Minimal FPS hit
Permanent text screens
- Hold C for context menu, right click on the textscreen, and make the text screen permanent (only works for admins). This is perfect for welcome messages or rules.
Presets
- Define preset textscreen data (size, text, colours, etc) and save/load these for future use at any time. This is very useful to trying to replicate multiple textscreens across maps.
Want more? Contribute to development of this addon on GitHub[github.com]. All pull requests are welcomed!

User Customisation

ss_render_range controls how far textscreens have to be away from you in order to render (default 1500). Setting this to a lower number can help with lag on older machines
ss_render_rainbow controls if rainbow textscreens should actually rotate their colours, or render as solid white (default enabled 1). 0 will cause them to render as solid white, which can be beneficial for accessibility

Server owners

sbox_maxtextscreens controls the maximum amount of text screens that each player can spawn. This defaults to 1. This cvar only exists on the server, so make sure it's set via RCON, or in something like server.cfg.
ss_enable_rainbow controls whether players on your server can use the rainbow effect. Set this to 0 in your server.cfg to prevent anyone from using rainbow effects.
To install this onto your server, follow the instructions listed here[wiki.facepunch.com].
This addon supports custom admin permissions and user/group permissions for placement via hooks. See my website[jross.me] for more information.

Please do not contact us directly for support, especially Dellkan as he is no longer actively involved in development of this addon, and is listed solely as an original author for credit sake. Please direct any support enquiries to a discussion thread on this workshop item or an issue on github[github.com].

Popular Discussions View All (76)

Nov 15, 2025 @ 11:17pm

Doesn't work

AvengingWing605

Jun 12, 2022 @ 10:46am

Not Spawning

Silvery2

Nov 5, 2022 @ 12:25pm

textscreen "update" not functional

chalklava

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BIG БАШНЯ NG.

Jun 2 @ 11:57am

Hi! Can you add me as an author and then remove me? I just want an achievement.

Blastbomb Studios

May 30 @ 9:38pm

For some odd reason, I've noticed the copy function for the textscreen tool ONLY works on multiplayer specifically. Every time I've tried it on singleplayer, it doesn't copy. Not game breaking or anything, but it's definitely odd. It's been going on for a long time, but I thought it would've been patched out by now.

holberry20

May 19 @ 8:45am

[3D2D Textscreens] lua/autorun/textscreens_util.lua:1: attempt to call global 'gluapack' (a nil value)
1. unknown - lua/autorun/textscreens_util.lua:1