Everything about Arc Signs

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Arc signs, like other signs in Creativerse, can be used to display text. Unlike other signs, they are wireable and have a lot larger character limit, so they are a lot more versatile. While the main purpose of an arc sign is to display text, people have also used them for custom images and decorations. Here's an example of some of the non-text things I have used arc signs for: The aim of this guide is to cover everything you need to know about arc signs (and probably quite a bit you'll never need to know as well). It mostly mirrors the content of my arc sign tutorial adventure, so if you'd like to be able to immediatly try things out as you go along, you can use the adventure instead: http://sharing.creativersegame.com/w?k=c328743eaa7011eaacdf42f9f412b992 To edit an arc sign's contents, you need to equip a wiring tool, aim at the arc sign and press N. The text you want to display goes into the Output Message section: The other five fields in the UI are wiring inputs, which are covered at the end of this guide. An arc sign can hold up to 10 000 characters, including any formatting tags, and can be turned on and off by either right-clicking or aiming at it and pressing F. To change the appearance of your text, you can use tags that look something like <tag>. For example, <b> will make the text bold. The effects of most tags can be ended by adding a slash to the beginning of the tag name, like </tag>. This section lists all usable tags with a short summary of the effect of each, detailed explanation for each tag will follow in the next sections. Tag Description The <offset> tag is used to move the bottom edge of the arc sign's text area up or down. No arc sign contents can ever go below this bottom edge. The default offset if none is specified is around 0.55. The <offset> tag can only be used once per arc sign. Usage: <offset=X>, where X is any number between -8 and 8. The unit is blocks, so increasing X by 1.5 will raise the text by 1.5 blocks. Example: <offset=2>This text has offset 2 will look like the arc sign on the right: The <zoffset> tag is used to move the arc sign's text area forwards or backwards. The default offset if none is specified is 0, which places the text directly above the arc sign. The <zoffset> tag can only be used once per arc sign, so you cannot have text in multiple planes with the same arc sign. Usage: <zoffset=X>, where X is any number between -8 and 8. X is in blocks, so e.g. <zoffset=2.5> will move the text area 2.5 blocks forwards. Example: <zoffset=-0.5> This text has zoffset -0.5, and sits snugly on the wall will result in the arc sign text sitting nicely on top of the block directly behind the arc sign, as shown by the arc sign on the right: Same two arc signs from the side: Note: all of the following examples will have <zoffset=-0.5> added to make the example text sit nicely on the wall behind the arc sign. The <width> tag is used to change the width of the arc sign's text area. The center of this area is directly above the arc sign. Lines of text that exceed the width will get wrapped to a new line. The default width if none is specified is 3. The <width> tag can only be used once per arc sign - if you want different sections of your text to have different widths, you can use the <margin> tag instead. Usage: <width=X>, where X is any number between -8 and 8 (although only positive values are useful in most cases). X is in blocks, so e.g. <width=2.5> will set the text area width to 2.5 blocks. Example: <width=1><zoffset=-0.5>This text has width 1 will result in: The <align> tag is used to change whether the arc sign text is aligned left, right, centered, justified (character/word spacing is adjusted to make text touch both edges, except last line before a manual line break) or flush (same as justified, but all lines are adjusted, including last line before line break). By default, text is centered. Different parts of an arc sign can have different alignment. Usage: <align=X>, where X is either left, right, center, justified or flush </align> will end the effect of an <align> tag and go back to the previous alignment Example: <zoffset=-0.5> <align=left>This text is aligned to the left of the text area <align=right>This text is aligned to the right of the text area <align=center>This text is centered <align=justified>This text is justified - word spacing is adjusted if necessary to align text with both edges <align=flush>This text is flushed - word spacing is adjusted if necessary to align text with both edges, including last line before manual line break</align> will result in: The <indent> tag makes every line following it have a space in front of it. Different parts of an arc sign can have different indents. It works best on left-aligned text - centered text will only move half of the value specified, and right-aligned text will not be affected at all. Usage: <indent=X>, where X is either a non-zero number (in blocks) or a percentage of the width of the arc sign </indent> will end the effect of an <indent> tag Example: <zoffset=-0.5><align=left> This text has no indent <indent=0.5>This text has indent 0.5 <indent=50%>This text has indent 50%</indent> will result in: Extra details: It is possible to go outside of the defined width using indent. You can have an indent close to -100% (exact value seems to depend on font size) without any odd effects. This means that you can get an effective arc sign area width of close to 16 blocks if you set width=8. Any more than that, or a positive indent over 100% will work, but every character will get pushed to a new line. The <line-indent> tag works exactly the same way as the <indent> tag, except it only affects manual linebreaks, not word-wrapped lines. Usage: <line-indent=X>, where X is either a non-zero number (in blocks) or a percentage of the width of the arc sign </line-indent> will end the effect of a <line-indent> tag Example: <zoffset=-0.5><align=left> <line-indent=10%>This text has line-indent 10%. This is a long line, so it gets word-wrapped, and the wrapped lines are not indented. This is a manually started new line, and gets indented. will result in: Extra details: If you have a left-aligned sign with no word-wrapped lines and no lines with less than 2 characters, you can move the whole image left or right any amount by removing the <align> tag, adding "<line-indent=X><#0000>. </color>" (the space is important!) as the first line and "<#0000>.." as the last line of the sign. I honestly have no idea why this works, but it does. The <line-height> tag changes how far apart the lines of text are. Usage: <line-height=X>, where X is any number or percentage including 0. For some reason, the unit for line-height is not exactly blocks - setting <line-height=1> will leave about 1.01 blocks between lines. Negative line-height will place the next line above the current line instead of below it. </line-height> will return the line spacing to 100% Example: <zoffset=-0.5>Normal space between lines <line-height=50%>50% of normal space between lines <line-height=1>1.01 blocks between this and the next line </line-height>Back to normal spacing. will result in: The <voffset> tag moves the following text up or down relative to its baseline. It cannot move text below the bottom line of the arc sign, specified by the <offset> tag. Useful for moving text higher than the offset tag would allow, or creating lineart. Usage: <voffset=X>, where X is a non-zero number. For some reason, the unit is not exactly blocks, so setting <voffset=1> will move the text 1.01 blocks above the