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HairyCabbage
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Once you have started displaying 3d objects on the screen in DB v1.13, how does one display text on the screen, because once you try to use the text command or the print command, it flashes quickly on the screen then vanishes, the first time its displayed in a loop, for example, it is possible to grab the text with the get image command and texture it onto a plane object, then display this object, but when the loop is run again,the get image command fails to grab the text.

is there anyway to display text in "3d mode"?

if not, then how do i display game-scores and other information like numbers, while displaying 3d objects.

if I was a betting man, I`d bet this is a common question?
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John H
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2002 05:37
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To display text in "3d Mode" you need to make the text a sprite.

Here is the snippet

charname$= "Char. Name"
set text font "Enviro"
Set text size 30
Set text to bold
tw = text width(charname$)
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

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indi
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crap just update your string or text in the main loop


make object cube 1,10

do
text 10,10,"mooooo"
sync
loop

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Lol I always do stuff the hard way LOL

Wouldnt that flash a little?

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Posted: 23rd Dec 2002 21:38
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run it

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lol

I could just

do
text 10,10,charname$
loop

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yay

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Manson
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Duh,

You just need to clear the bitmaps you've used for texturing your 3D objects

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