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Newcomers DBPro Corner / How do u do UI?

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Gil Galvanti
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How do u make the UI for a game? What programs do u use to make it? and how do u do minimaps? Also how do u get effects like see through things?

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just ND
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There's a good tutorial on using the box command to make a UI at http://developer.thegamecreators.com/?f=dbpro_tutorials.

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k, thanks

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Do you have dark basic classic or pro?

For DarkBasic Pro:
If you want a seethrough 3D object, do:
Quote: "ghost object on object no"


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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2005 22:38 Edited at: 23rd Feb 2005 22:39
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i have pro, but do u do UI with 3D in a 3D game? i thought u just use boxes and stuff, like when u see a "transparent" blue box as part of the UI.

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One effective way is to use 3d planes for your interface, and use the lock object command to fix it to the screen. The advantage of using 3d planes is that you can then use all the 3d object commands like transparency, fade, ghost, alpha mapping etc. Another big advantage of planes over 2d, is that the users screen resolution won't affect the size and position of your interface elements. With anything 2d, keeping things the same on different screen sizes is not nearly so easy.


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Gil Galvanti
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but wouldnt you be able to the top/bottom/side of the 3D object unless it was completely centered?

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A 3d plane has no depth, so you wouldn't be able to see any edges.


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If you are using Pro you can use BlueGUI. If you are using Classic there was a very old link to a windows commands library, it was very powerful and only used the image/text commands.

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ok, thanks im using DBP btw

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Quote: "Another big advantage of planes over 2d, is that the users screen resolution won't affect the size and position of your interface elements."


You can fix that problem easy. For an object that is to be on the right ride of the screen at all times just get the scren width and subtract how far left it needs to be.



That would paste the sprite's left edge to 974th px with resolution 1024x768.

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