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TheDreamX

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2002 15:58

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I've been looking all around the forums and the rest of the web. The few examples that are supposed to make bitmap text either do not work or are for DBPro (I have the original DB). My problem is this: I'm making a 3D RPG and I want names to shown over top of all the players. Normal text (using print or text commands) does not appear and doesn't look good anyway. Can someone guide me in the right direction, maybe with some code? Thanks in advance.

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John H

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2002 16:08

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Oh how I was in your position once, text for character names in the RPG battle system. Well, make text a sprite, they refresh and show on 3d screens, but anyways, here ya go:

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   Rem print the characters current name
charname$= "Your Name Here"
set text font "Enviro"
Set text size 30
Set text to bold
tw = text width(charname$)
th = text height("A")
create bitmap 17, tw, th
text 0, 0, charname$
get image 17, 0, 0, tw, th
delete bitmap 17
sprite 17, 300, 503, 17

Hope that helps ya! Now, if you want it to be above the character, your going to have to insert some code for when you press keys to move the sprite. I hope this gets you started!
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John H

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2002 16:12

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My bad, your not gonna see that I dont think- here it is again ;p

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   Rem print the characters current name
charname$= "Your Name Here"
set text font "Enviro"
Set text size 30
Set text to bold
ink 999999999999999999999999,255
tw = text width(charname$)
th = text height("A")
create bitmap 17, tw, th
text 0, 0, charname$
get image 17, 0, 0, tw, th
delete bitmap 17
sprite 17, 50, 50, 17

Later,
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MrTAToad

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Posted: 24th Nov 2002 00:52

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I've got a bitmap font routine in the Code Snippets section...

Good news everybody! I really am THAT good...

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