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2D All the way! / dbText, dbPasteSprite and dbSprite ordering

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Iuzidal
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Posted: 9th Jul 2009 01:38
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I'm working on a tile based rpg in gdk. My map has 3 layers: terrain, objects and npcs. I draw the bottom terrain layer using dbPasteSprite for performance reasons. The other layers use unique sprites on top of that for characters, spell effects, items, etc. I'd like to have the GUI use dbText on top of this for a chat box, character sheet, shop menus, etc.

I use dbDrawSpritesLast to see the sprites on top of my pasted map layer, but this causes the dbText to vanish. Is there a way around this?
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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 9th Jul 2009 10:11
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If it's anything like regular Darkbasic... sprites are always drawn last normally so they are always above any text or pasted images. Try hiding the sprites and pasting them instead before any text.

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IanM
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I'd use a sprite for the background too, with backsave disabled. Set the background sprite priority to 0 and all other sprites to 1 to get the correct ordering.

Then I'd use dbText to draw text normally on top of that (ie, not use dbDrawSpritesLast).

When the GDK is updated to 7.4 then you can use higher sprite priorities, but don't do it until then or else you'll find things will get slow.

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DVader
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If you paste sprites you can print text over the top no problems. if you use just sprite then they will always draw over the text. Annoying that there is no way to set the text to always overwrite sprites but hey ho. I am messing about with an editor that is using sprites at the moment. I have not worried too much about the text problem yet and plan to write a routine to make a sprite from the text and use that instead. It's a work around as although paste sprite works great using text, I need to be able to change priority dependant on the players position, as in walk behind a bush etc.

http://s6.bitefight.org/c.php?uid=103081
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prasoc
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In DGDK, use directx text, it is antialiased and whenever you draw it, it appears above things drawn below it (getting past the problem). And it is much much faster.


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Pincho Paxton
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I think it's nearly always best to paste sprites, you get all of your speed back.

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