Is it possible to draw UnityEngine.UI.Text into IVA?

[mahanako]

Hi, I'm trying to display some flight information in a cockpit or command pod IVA view similarly to how it's done with the speed. I know, there are awesome projects like the RasterPropMonitor and more to get sophisticated nav instruments, but before I dive into that, I'd like to keep it simple first. Though I'm not new to software delopment, I'm pretty new to making a KSP Mod.

The velocity indicator, which you can see inside every cockpit or command pod clearly uses a true type font, so I thought, I might place a UnityEngine.UI.Text object at some specific place in the IVA view.

My question is, is that possible and if yes, how do I do that? And if no, what else can I do to just put some text into the cockpit?

Thanks in advance!

 

Edited July 12, 2021 by mahanako

[mahanako]

Well, I kinda answer my own question, hoping this helps others, too. After I have looked through various projects, I have found the InternalText class used in MOARdV's Avionics Systems project and it worked in my case drawing text floating in the cockpit. This class seems to be the KSP equivalent of the UnityEngine.UI.Text.

InternalText t;

...

t = InternalComponents.Instance.CreateText(
        font, // eg. "Arial"
        fontSize, // in IVA 0.15 gave reasonable size
        transform, // I used some random component's transform found in the cockpit
        text, // the actual content string
        color, // eg. Color.White
        wrap, // true or false
        align); // eg. "TopLeft"