Notes

• All data sources may select from 10 different designs.

• There are currently no limits as to how many Label and Go plugins can be used by one scene.

• Label collision is calculated and taken into account. Other types of labels (e.g. design using the Street Labels plugin) are not taken into account.

• Label and Go currently works on flat maps only.

The options are divided into three tabs, Global, Design and Communication, and this section contains information on the following topics:

• Properties - Global

• Properties - Design

• Properties - Communication

• Working with Label and Go

Properties - Global

• Data source: Defines the type of source the plugin should render. Label and Go supports the following data sources:

  • Auto labels: Labels of the entire world.

  • CWM labels: Labels created by the CWMClient plugin.

  • Streets: Street labels (created by the 3D Road Manager or CWMClient plugin)

  • Other: Currently Viz World supports KML plugin.

  • Local file: Shape file which contains names and geo positions.

  • Shields: This is based on street data and currently only supports Tom-Tom data for the USA. It allows the designer to set designs for road types such as highways, interstates, etc, and to use an iconic representation of the street instead of the street name. During import of the street data, a CSV file is created under plugin\data\maps\DesignMappings which contains all the types of shields found in the data. The Mapping column in this file can be edited in order to map the shield types to specific user designs, and then the Label and Go plugin is used to read the file.

• Labels Draw Style:

  • On Map: Will place the labels on the same camera as the navigator camera

  • Overlay: Will place the labels on the second camera (normally front layer)

• Alpha fade time: Time (fields) for new labels to appear or disappear

• Max number of labels: Max number of label to render including all the labels so far (other Label and Go are taken into account aswell)

• Culling bounding box: Option to scale the real bounding box to avoid too many labels on screen

• Line spacing: Line spacing when using 2 lines

Properties - Design

• Font: Sets the font used by all labels.

• Label Type: Select from the default types of labels when using auto-labels on Data Source (Country, Capital, etc).
  Using POI-1, POI-2 and so on, allow you to define the name of the style, for example: Earthquake, Explosion, etc

• Render: Enables (On) or disables (Off) rendering of the selected label design type (e.g. Country, POI-1 and so on).

• View Distance: Sets the distance from where the label style should be visible

• Set Distance: Sets the View Distance property based on the current distance of the map

• Priority: Overwrites the default priority which is based on type and town size

• Caption/Background/Pointer: The Caption, Background and Pointer properties are different for each type of design, and are described in the separate lists below.

• Buttons:

  • All Off: Turns off all labels, except the one currently edited.

  • All On: Turns on all labels.

  • Copy setting from type above/below: Copies the settings from the label type above/below.

• Outline Quality : Quality when background is set to outline ( not work will fix )

• Outline Quality Mask : Select the mask to use so it will not interfere with the scene regular makes.

• Debug : Draw a green rectangle around all/current labels. (useful to see the bounding box).

Properties - Communication

• Interactive Mode: This property is here for backwards compatibility only. The recommended way is to use the MTButton plugin instead. (For more information on MTButton, see the Viz Artist User’s Guide).

• Shared Memory Type: Changes between Scene-, Global- and Distributed-Shared Memory.

• Shared Memory Identifier: Sets the Shared Memory key name.

• Set Data Pool: Enables the distribution of the data to a DataPool structure using the same name as the Shared Memory Identifier.

Working with Label and Go