I need help with cube (Newbie here)

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Boyrobber

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2006 07:50

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Hey, I can get the cube to show up after I print words, but how wouldi I go about putting words on the screen after lop on the cube??? any help is greatly appreciated and I am saying thanks in advance.

Robert

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Boyrobber

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2006 09:28

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wow, no responses. Will you please respond to this the sooner I know how the sooner I can continue to work on my game.

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2006 09:41

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try:

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make object vube 1,10
do
text 0,0,"Hello World"
loop

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2006 09:54

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Quote: "wow, no responses. Will you please respond to this the sooner I know how the sooner I can continue to work on my game"

You waited less than 2 hours for a response! This is a forum, not a chat room. You might also get a better response if you post this type of question in the Newcomers board.

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indi

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2006 12:58

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and thats where it will be moved to.

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Daemon

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Posted: 24th Nov 2006 01:20

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backdrop off
make object cube 1,10
move camera -10
print "Hi."
print ""
print "Making a 3d object or sprite automatically turns the backdrop on, which means things are"
print "erased from the screen automatically."
print ""
print "Usually in a game you will actually want the backdrop on, but if you don't then put 'backdrop off'"
print "at the beginning of your code."
print ""
print "If you want text to show up when the backdrop is on then you will have to do what dabip showed,"
print "and make it print the text in a loop."
wait key

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The crazy

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Posted: 25th Nov 2006 03:11 Edited at: 25th Nov 2006 03:14

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I don't exactly understand what your problem is, but maybe if you tried

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set cursor 0,0
print "whatever"

[edit] Note: So I don't get flamed, the code posted is meant to be added onto other code, and not necessarily used alone.

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Code Dragon

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Posted: 2nd Dec 2006 13:32 Edited at: 2nd Dec 2006 13:32

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Quote: "make object vube"

That code was untested, I see.

Do you mean you want the words on the surface of the cube?

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sync on
sync rate 60
create bitmap 1, 64, 64
print "Hello"
print "World"
get image 1, 0, 0, 63, 63, 1
delete bitmap 1
make object cube 1, 1
texture object 1, 1
do
  turn object right 1, 1
  sync
loop

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TEH_CODERER

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Posted: 2nd Dec 2006 14:10

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I believe it could be the manual synchronisation that is the problem. If you look at Code Dragon's code above, he uses the 'sync on', 'sync rate' and 'sync' commands. Basically, before your loop, you need to put a 'sync on' and a 'sync rate 60' where the 60 is the frame rate and can be changed to your desired value. Then, in your loop, when you want a screen update (generally at the end) add a 'sync' command.