atidwel

GT Designer 3 - Text on top of Lamp

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I'm trying to overlay a text figure on top of a bit lamp. You'd think it'd be easy... but no matter what layer I set the lamp to, or how many times I click "Move to back of layer" from "Stacking order" in the right-click menu, the text figure stays behind the lamp. The only reason I'm using a text figure vs. just using the text function of the lamp is because I want the text to be vertical - a feature that you do not have with the text function of a lamp. Any ideas on how to fix this? Any help is greatly appreciated!text_behind_lamp.PNG.3bfe98f016d36b21763

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Active elements like buttons and lamps always float to the top. You'll have to hack it. I can think of two options:

1. It looks like your "vertical text" isn't rotated, it's just a column of characters. You can do that in the lamp itself by just hitting enter between characters. If you want to use comments, then use Alt-Enter.

2. You could create an image of the text in the format you want using GIMP or similar, then import the image into GT Works and use it on the lamp.

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Perfect, I can't believe I didn't think about the first one. It worked like a charm. Thanks!!

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