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Problem 1)

I am wanting to have a counter, that counts up like a mileage thing on a speedometer, I could do it years back in machine code on the c64 coz it was easy, take the top line of pixels, shift them all up 1, and dump the pixels on the bottom row, and if you have numbers 0-9 in a font it worked, but doing it in basic? can it be done, I would like to learn it, rather than someone just code it, and provide me with the source (although that would be nice), can someone point me in the right direction.

Problem 2)
If it possible to make an effect like in Star Trek, like a teleporting effect, I am guessing you using Particles, but how, my maths is rubbish, and I am guessing you need that too? sorry be a bit vauge on this one, but that is the only way I can explain it. Again like above, I would like to learn it, rather than just get the code...

Thanks in advance for any help.

1... you want a bitmap with the numbers 0 to 9 with zero on the end arranged verticaly, then copy the section of bitmap you want to a sprite as it`s image, then loop through and just move the section you get down the bitmap, when you are one pixel from the end then jump back to the top of the image strip and start over.

2... you can use ghost object on a textured cylinder, scroll the texture about and then scroll it to a section of the texture that "fades out" to give the effect of a fade, or just create some particles with a large emmiter and set the gavity to zero and the life and speed just long enough to clear the object you want to materialise, then use ghost and fade for a transporter effect while shutting down the particles.

Mentor.

You mean on an odometer?

I made a neat looking teleporting effect once in an old fps i never finished in dbc. It was 2 cylinders with different textures, both ghosted and had the cylinders rotating in different directions. I'll show you a screenshot of it when I get back into town, and you can decide if its what you want or not.

In the Elite Force games when someone beamed out they put a glittery texture on them and scrolled it like crazy