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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Making a 2D Panel in a 3D Enviroment

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 4th Dec 2010 23:46
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As the title suggests, i want to make a 2D panel on the side of my program in a 3D Enviroment, i have tried to search.

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Rich Dersheimer
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Posted: 5th Dec 2010 01:49 Edited at: 5th Dec 2010 16:15
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You can set your camera viewport to only take up a part of the screen, and use the rest of the screen for 2D stuff like text, etc.

This demonstrates:



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WickedX
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Posted: 5th Dec 2010 14:45 Edited at: 5th Dec 2010 14:54
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Attached is a snippet from a program in the works. It just puts a tranparent panel on the left side of the screen. 3D will show through panel.

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 5th Dec 2010 16:18 Edited at: 5th Dec 2010 16:28
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Quote: "You can set your camera viewport to only take up a part of the screen, and use the rest of the screen for 2D stuff like text, etc."

Can you give me some code? because that was the reason i posted this

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that works! so this panel will allow me to have 2d text, sprites, etc shown on top of it and not the 3D Area?

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WickedX
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Posted: 5th Dec 2010 16:29 Edited at: 5th Dec 2010 16:34
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Yes, it should help. Attached is a snippet using camera viewports.

Edit: It would depend on where you place your text and sprites.

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 5th Dec 2010 21:52
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Thanks, this really helps me alot!

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