Hi Eric,

There's probably nothing wrong with the Paint Text module — the behavior you're seeing almost certainly comes from the Paint View and Text Format modules.

Start with the Pixel Mode pin on Paint View. It defines how the coordinates of painted components (such as Text) are interpreted:

 Pixel Mode is Off: components are visible when their X and Y coordinates fall roughly between -1 and 1. Components in this range will be visible, regardless the frame resolution.
Pixel Mode is On: coordinates map directly to screen pixels. At a rendering resolution of 1920x1080, for instance, anything placed between 0,0 and 1920,1080 will be on screen.

Disabling Pixel Mode is the better choice when you want your setup to adapt to different frame resolutions; enabling it makes scene setup more intuitive when the frame size is fixed.

In Paint Text, the Left Top and Right Bottom pins define the coordinates of the Text component's area (the textbox):

It's also worth checking that the Text pin isn't empty.

The other setting affected by Pixel Mode is Font Size, located on the Text Format module:

With Pixel Mode disabled and Font Size at its default of 100, the text is rendered so much larger than the frame that nothing is visible — which is very likely what happened here.

There are two ways to fix it: lower the Font Size to around 0.x as shown above and keep Pixel Mode disabled, or enable Pixel Mode so that a Font Size of 100 is interpreted as 100 pixels.

Warmest regards,
Adam

What are the advantages of Paint Text over regular text? Give an example of what Paint Text offers.

Hi Adam.

Thanks for clarifying! That was exactly what bit me in this case!
PixelMode -> large font size, Normalized -> tiny font size (or Text is rendered off screen).

TBH, I never used PixelMode, since I'm a huge fan of normalized coordinates.
(Well... x-coordinates in Axy are not *really* normalized, since they take AspectRatio into account, but that's a different story :-))

@celnet

When you're working with dynamic/animated paint objects, PaintText just lives in the same coordinates, rather than having to re-engineer your coordinates from paint in a regular TextImage module.

Cheers & all the best.

Eric.