Okay, I ended up just displaying the text outside of the irrlicht window. 

Thanks for your help!
Luke

On Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 7:35:31 AM UTC-5 Radu Serban wrote:

> Luke,
>
>  
>
> The current run-time visualization in Chrono (and hence PyChrono) is based 
> on Irrlicht.  While there appear to be an Irrlicht function to render text 
> at a given 3D location, that is not exposed through the Chrono interface to 
> Irrlicht.  
>
>  
>
> --Radu
>
>  
>
> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On 
> Behalf Of *Luke Timmerman
> *Sent:* Friday, April 1, 2022 11:38 PM
> *To:* ProjectChrono <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* [chrono] 3D Glyph Text
>
>  
>
> Hi, 
>
>  
>
> I am looking to try an input 3 dimensional text into a simulation I am 
> running, and am wondering if there are any predefined libraries for 3d text 
> for PyChrono. If there is not a library, I will just manually draw the 
> shapes of text with glyphs. 
>
>  
>
> To showcase why I want to do this, see the image of a block on an inclined 
> plane below. I have already created a simulation for the block, but I want 
> to display to the user different information on the forces/vectors and 
> angles as I have outlined in the photo. 
>
>  
>
> Let me know if you know of any libraries/ways to approach this! 
>
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Luke
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