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Odin The Great
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How would I put an image to use as the GUI in my game?

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Posted: 4th Mar 2004 18:55
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You could:

-Load it as a bitmap
load bitmap "gui.bmp", 0

-use a locked plain
load image "gui.bmp", 1
make object plain 1,40,20
xrotate object 1,90
lock object on 1
position object 1,0,0,0

and there may be other methods

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A third method is to do a paste image right before the SYNC command to overlay a GUI on the 3D scene.

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or sprites, they lose you alot of speed in dbc but in pro they are pretty good.

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Here's an example where I combined, sprites and paste image. The translucent menus are two sprites each. One is the menu background and the second is a 100% transparent sprite except for the borders and text. The frames are just pasted in place with translucent corners and cut outs.
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Odin The Great
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When I run the code the debug just automaticly closes, is this cause im using the trial version?

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Which code?

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Odin The Great
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Both of these:

-Load it as a bitmap
load bitmap "gui.bmp", 0

-use a locked plain
load image "gui.bmp", 1
make object plain 1,40,20
xrotate object 1,90
lock object on 1
position object 1,0,0,0

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It's probably because you don't have the resources such as GUI.BMP. The program won't make that for you. Also, these look like code fragments and not stand alone programs. Since there is no wait or delay at the end, they immediately finish running and exit.

Look up do/loop or wait key in the help files.
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I got it to work but it's kinda blurry..

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I tryed changing the screen resolution didn't help.

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OK, add ",1" to the end of your LOAD IMAGE command. This turns off some filtering that is automatically done. [Good for terrains and models, bad for sprites and user interfaces.] i.e.

LOAD IMAGE "filename.png", imageID, 1

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