What is TextToy's character limit?

[rigid blade]

I just want to run DOOM and it takes a lot of characters to make a quality video, and I'd also love to know where that limit is set 🙂

[sharp falcon]

Have a look inside the assembly and see where it validates the text you put in

if there is no length validation, then assume it’s the max length of a string in unity/c#

[mental bison]

you can make ~0.09MP screen with it

but for a video you would have to experiment with low resolutions

like 50x80

maybe even lower

[wet cypress]

Max length is what you can send over the network

65534 characters for the base string

But you can increase this by using the arguments

as each one is another 65534 minus some wrapping data bytes

@rigid blade

[rigid blade]

Thanks for the info! Could you explain how to increase the limits using arguments? I'm not quite sure how to implement that part.

[wet cypress]

Set the base string to {0}....{1} and such

then the arguments replace the brackets

Just like normal c# formatting

[sharp falcon]

i forgor about mirror max payload

[wet cypress]

No thats fine its just that you cant fit more in UDP packet

[mental bison]

some char's also take more than 1 byte

[wet cypress]

^

[rigid blade]

https://tenor.com/view/deer-staring-meme-funny-weird-deer-weird-funny-meme-gif-16598364073205887468

[mental bison]

also isn't there some kind of character limit on client?
i couldn't seem to display more than 100k chars

or is it network related?

like a timeout

[wet cypress]

100K chars

[mental bison]

yes

is a lot

100k excluding all the TMP tags :3

[rigid blade]

💀

[TcpAsciiClient] 50 ms, ~20 FPS, characters: 22825

and the text doesn't change 😦

[TcpAsciiClient] 36 ms, ~27 FPS, characters: 21528 visible

[mental bison]

hmmm

[earnest oyster]

can you explain more detail?

[mental bison]

works roghly like string.format

where {0}, {1}... {n} represents each string in Arguments SyncList

[wet cypress]

Yea

[earnest oyster]

💀

forgive me, but I still can't understand how this is done

can you show me some demo code help me to understand?

[mental bison]

for example

 // Spawn TextToy
 GameObject prefab = NetworkClient.prefabs.Select(x => x.Value).First(x =>
 {
     return x.TryGetComponent(out AdminToyBase toyBase) && toyBase.CommandName is "Text";
 });

 GameObject obj = Object.Instantiate(prefab);

 AdminToyBase toyBase = obj.GetComponent<AdminToyBase>();
 toyBase.SpawnerFootprint = new(Server.Host.ReferenceHub);

 NetworkServer.Spawn(toyBase.gameObject);

 TextToy toy = toyBase as TextToy;

 toy.transform.SetPositionAndRotation(position, rotation);

 toy.NetworkIsStatic = false;
 toy.DisplaySize = new(2000f, 4000f);

 // Set Text
 toy.Arguments.Add("Second Line");
 toy.Arguments.Add("Third Line");
 toy.TextFormat = "Hello World!\n{0}\n{1}";

So the above code spawns TextToy at position with rotation and it will display:

Hello World!
Second Line
Third Line

Idk if you need to set color for the text

default is white i guess

[ionic yacht]

A C# character is 2 bytes.

Unless you are talking about the amount of bytes that is being sent over the net

[earnest oyster]

thanks!