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DarkBASIC Discussion / another problem-screen objs "dbc"

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Nic
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i have made a 2d panel for my game(a doom style panel). of course when i use it as a sprite my FPS drops from 65-22. i have read that the best way to achieve this is to map my sprite onto a plain. ok i can easily texture a plain, but how do i get it to stay at the same point on the screen and appear like a 2d menu? (just picture doom or diablo)? please dnt just say "lock object on". help would be much appreciated, Nic
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Wolfee
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you can use sprite without FPS reducation, but you need to put this line the end of code

with backdrop and sync itt will work properly

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Nic
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Posted: 19th Jan 2005 21:05 Edited at: 19th Jan 2005 21:08
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YES BRILLIANT. what does it do?! its good tho so im not complaining
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Benjamin
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Posted: 20th Jan 2005 08:39 Edited at: 20th Jan 2005 08:40
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Basically, every time your sprite is drawn, the pixels behind it are saved so when you move your sprite, everything behind is left intact. 'set sprite' allows you to turn off that backsave feature, meaning it takes less time to draw a sprite. Of course, using a sprite in this way would be much like calling 'paste image' every update, which works too.

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Nic
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the only problem now, is i have text but i want it to appear OVER my sprite is there any way to decide which 2d element appears over another? baring in mind im using DBC
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Jake Blues
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I have had this same problem. The only way to do this is before loading it as a sprite, paste your image on the screen and place the text in the right position and save the bitmap. Then load the new bitmap as a sprite. That is the only way I know.

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Nic
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man thats good but im using a a diablo baldurs gate style HUD and thats gonna get tiring after a while , maybe theres an easier way, i made part of my sprite transparent and had the text behind that bit of the sprite but it looks LAME!
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