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Newcomers DBPro Corner / In-game text, help please.

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Cyril Grey
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Posted: 5th Jul 2005 00:41
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Is there an efficient way to create in-game text with transparancy fading for 3d gaming with DBC? I tried creating a sprite as a text-box and it killed my frames per sec. Can I create a plane and lock it to the front of the screen where I want text to appear? The "Set Text Opaque" looks terrible, and "Set Text Transparent" can get lost if the lighting is too dark or too light...

Some advice please?

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Cyril

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 5th Jul 2005 00:54
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the plain idea was good, just make the text transparent by typing "set object object number,1,0,1"

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NanoBrain
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Posted: 5th Jul 2005 07:19
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Cyril Grey,

The command LOCK OBJECT ON Object Number is easily found within the DarkBasic help files. This command does not allow the camera's movement to influence the locked object. However, the object must first be positioned in front of the camera, then locked to the screen. Where ever and at whatever the object's orientation was before it was locked, will be its orientation and screen position when and for the remainder of the time it is locked.


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Posted: 5th Jul 2005 18:02 Edited at: 5th Jul 2005 18:03
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you could write a useful function treating a plain as a sprite and positioning it at screen coordinates x,y (the function does the work of positiong it in 3d space) then put it in code snippest

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