Call from OnDrawGizmos() to draw text at Unity3D glocal position in Editor

gistfile1.cs

	static void drawString(string text, Vector3 worldPos, Color? colour = null) {
		UnityEditor.Handles.BeginGUI();
		if (colour.HasValue) GUI.color = colour.Value;
		var view = UnityEditor.SceneView.currentDrawingSceneView;
		Vector3 screenPos = view.camera.WorldToScreenPoint(worldPos);
		Vector2 size = GUI.skin.label.CalcSize(new GUIContent(text));
		GUI.Label(new Rect(screenPos.x - (size.x / 2), -screenPos.y + view.position.height + 4, size.x, size.y), text);
		UnityEditor.Handles.EndGUI();
	}

I see this is a few years old, but just wanted to say thank you for this very useful bit of code and that it is still working great in 2018.3.8f1!

You can use handles inside the gizmo draw function instead like so :

void OnDrawGizmos()
{
   #if UNITY_EDITOR
   UnityEditor.Handles.color = Color.white;
   UnityEditor.Handles.Label( pointA.position, "Point A" );
   #endif
}

it also has overloads for texture and style ( font size can be changed )

@nukadelic works like a charm, thanks!

Thanks all for the snippet and tweaks! Based on the GUI version above, I further improved by using GUIStyle to specify color and font size without having to use the color restore logic. I also added pixel-precise positioning with anchor support (e.g. Vector2.zero = center, Vector2.one = anchor to bottom-left corner, -Vector2.one = anchor to top-right corner, etc.). The fudge factor issue is fixed by using camera.pixelHeight instead of view.position.height.

static public void drawString(string text, Vector3 worldPosition, Color textColor, Vector2 anchor, float textSize = 15f)
{
#if UNITY_EDITOR
    var view = UnityEditor.SceneView.currentDrawingSceneView;
    if (!view)
        return;
    Vector3 screenPosition = view.camera.WorldToScreenPoint(worldPosition);
    if (screenPosition.y < 0 || screenPosition.y > view.camera.pixelHeight || screenPosition.x < 0 || screenPosition.x > view.camera.pixelWidth || screenPosition.z < 0)
        return;
    var pixelRatio = UnityEditor.HandleUtility.GUIPointToScreenPixelCoordinate(Vector2.right).x - UnityEditor.HandleUtility.GUIPointToScreenPixelCoordinate(Vector2.zero).x;
    UnityEditor.Handles.BeginGUI();
    var style = new GUIStyle(GUI.skin.label)
    {
        fontSize = (int)textSize,
        normal = new GUIStyleState() { textColor = textColor }
    };
    Vector2 size = style.CalcSize(new GUIContent(text)) * pixelRatio;
    var alignedPosition =
        ((Vector2)screenPosition +
        size * ((anchor + Vector2.left + Vector2.up) / 2f)) * (Vector2.right + Vector2.down) +
        Vector2.up * view.camera.pixelHeight;
    GUI.Label(new Rect(alignedPosition / pixelRatio, size / pixelRatio), text, style);
    UnityEditor.Handles.EndGUI();
#endif
}

@nukadelic great solution! Simple! Thanks!

Thanks a lot, works great!

For those who wonder what this pixelRatio is about: it depends on the display UI scaling (e.g. 1.5 for the '150%' setting in windows)

Instead of computing it, you can actually just get it using
var pixelRatio = EditorGUIUtility.pixelsPerPoint;
(see https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorGUIUtility-pixelsPerPoint.html)

Very neat, exactly what I was looking for!

I passed a color and it made the whole scene view that color. I just removed it, and it satisfied what I intended. Well done! Thanks

I solved the issue color issue and also fixed the scene zoom text slipping

public static void DrawString(string text, Vector3 worldPos, Color? colour = null)
{
UnityEditor.Handles.BeginGUI();
Color defaultColor = GUI.color;
if (colour.HasValue) GUI.color = colour.Value;
var view = UnityEditor.SceneView.currentDrawingSceneView;
Vector3 screenPos = view.camera.WorldToScreenPoint(worldPos);
Vector2 size = GUI.skin.label.CalcSize(new GUIContent(text));
GUI.Label(new Rect(screenPos.x - (size.x / 2), -screenPos.y + view.position.height - size.y * 2, size.x, size.y), text);
GUI.color = defaultColor;
UnityEditor.Handles.EndGUI();
}