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DarkBASIC Discussion / bikegame problems

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Code eater
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2008 13:24
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Im basicaly making a 3d motorbike race game and am not sure how to do a few things so i made a list, if you can help me with any of them please post

-I have a little speedometer jpg picture which i put on the screen (a sprite) and I want to print text (preferably using the print command because i dont really have a clue how to use the text command) on top of it but the text is printed behind the sprite, any ideas?

thats all for now if i get any more problems ill say

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Posted: 23rd Feb 2008 13:40
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Did you use the search option?

We've answered this loads of times before...

Paste the sprite image on a hidden bitmap, use the Text command to place the text where you want it then grab the image with the text on it and use it for your sprite.

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cheers,,,

now i have a new question:

I want to make it into a multiplayer game so is it possible to split the screen into two cameras? if so how?

Any ideas how to make 4 other NPC bikes ride around every track on their own?
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Posted: 24th Feb 2008 15:17
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Quote: "I want to make it into a multiplayer game so is it possible to split the screen into two cameras? if so how?"

no, darkbasic does not support multiple camera's. It can shwitch between all the time but that look very wrong.
Quote: "Any ideas how to make 4 other NPC bikes ride around every track on their own?"

do a seartch for "ai" , "racegame" and "waypoints" or any combination of the three

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Posted: 24th Feb 2008 18:22 Edited at: 24th Feb 2008 19:45
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Quote: "It can shwitch between all the time but that look very wrong."

What if you had the camera switching between the tow positions each loop, and broadcasting onto only one half of the screen?

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Posted: 24th Feb 2008 18:59 Edited at: 24th Feb 2008 19:00
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It will flikker or lagg all the time

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I seem to remember someone managed to make a two person camera once, I think it was latch. Can't remember though.

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Quote: "I want to make it into a multiplayer game so is it possible to split the screen into two cameras?"


Yes. It only runs at half the speed though.

I did a demo years ago which had four screens but wasn't really of any use other than looking nice.

With two screens, it's just about possible to do other things as well as update the screen:

Zip file attached.

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could you do something like
set viewport to one side of the screen, copy to a bitmap, then set viewport to other side of screen (second angle) and copy that to the bitmap (transparent)?

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I managed to get a 2 camera thing to work for one of the DBC challenges once; I think I used something off the Code Snippets board for it. It didn't work when I reloaded the file though, although I'm not sure whether it was because of 1.2 or Vista...

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Ill have a look cheers
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