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SoulWanderer

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Posted: 21st Jan 2003 21:52

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Well... i'm being very dumb by this, but how do i show a loading screen? i now have this:

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load bitmap "splash.png",2
get image 2,0,0,800,600
paste image 2,0,0,0,0
delete bitmap 2

What's wrong?

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David T

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Posted: 21st Jan 2003 22:12

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Okay, I would do it this way:

rem Remove 3d drawing so 2d is not overwritten
set camera view 0,0,0,0

rem Load screen
center text 320,240,"LOADING"

rem Load stuff here
load object 1,"object.x"

rem Re-enable 3d drawing (eg. draw onto screen again)
set camera view 0,0,screen width(),screen height()

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ShockFire

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Posted: 21st Jan 2003 22:17

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or a nice easy way

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load image "splash.bmp", 2
sprite 2,0,0,2
set sprite 2,0,0

(loading code)

hide sprite 2
delete image 2
delete sprite 2

have fun

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Posted: 21st Jan 2003 22:20

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PS - I'm afraid I can't look at any code snippets as I am on Opera which doesn't like this forum

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SoulWanderer

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Posted: 21st Jan 2003 22:27

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Well, i tried both ways, but both didn't work...

maybe it's the code between? (i only saw a black screen)

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Rem ***** Initial Set-Up *****
Set Display Mode 800,600,16
Sync On
Hide Mouse

angleX=0
angleY=0

Rem ***** Image Loading *****
load bitmap "basphlt.jpg",1
get image 1,0,0,128,128
delete bitmap 1

Rem ***** Matrix Creation *****
make matrix 1, 100000.0,100000.0,25,25
prepare matrix texture 1,1,1,1
update matrix 1

Rem ***** Fog *****
fog on
fog color red
fog distance 4000

Rem ***** Camera Set-Up *****
make camera 1
set current camera 1
position camera 5000,200,5000
backdrop on 1
color backdrop 1,3

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Posted: 22nd Jan 2003 01:19

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Your matrix is both massively big (too big) and, more importantly, you cannot use floats to specify the segment values. I.e. the 0.25 parts is just killing it - they should be real integer values. Also don't bother using camera 1 unless you have a real need for it (which I cannot see in this example) just use the default camera (0). Try the following version of your code which works perfectly for me:

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sync rate 0
sync on

angleX=0
angleY=0

Rem ***** Image Loading *****
load bitmap "C:\DBPro Temp\objects.bmp",1
get image 1,0,0,128,128
delete bitmap 1

Rem ***** Matrix Creation *****
make matrix 1, 1000, 1000, 25, 25
prepare matrix texture 1,1,1,1
update matrix 1

Rem ***** Fog *****
fog on
fog color red
fog distance 4000

do
   control camera using arrowkeys 0,1,1
   sync
loop

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SoulWanderer

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Posted: 22nd Jan 2003 11:28

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It still doesn't want to do it... keep seeing a black screen

This is my code now:

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Rem ***** Splash Screen *****
load image "splash.png",2
sprite 2,0,0,2
set sprite 2,0,0

Rem ***** Initial Set-Up *****
Hide Mouse
sync rate 0
sync on
angleX=0
angleY=0

Rem ***** Image Loading *****
load bitmap "basphlt.jpg",1
get image 1,0,0,128,128
delete bitmap 1

Rem ***** Matrix Creation *****
make matrix 1, 1000, 1000, 25, 25
prepare matrix texture 1,1,1,1
update matrix 1

Rem ***** Fog *****
fog on
fog color red
fog distance 4000

Rem ***** Camera Set-Up *****
position camera 5000,200,5000
backdrop on 0
color backdrop 0,3

Rem ***** Splash-done *****
hide sprite 2
delete image 2
delete sprite 2

And then there is a loop.

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Posted: 22nd Jan 2003 12:28

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Think about what you're doing at the bottom of your code for a second. You have created a matrix 1000 3D units wide, by 1000 3D units long - this is fine. But you've then positioned the camera 5000 units to the left, 200 units up in the air and 5000 units into the 3D scene!!! No wonder you can't see anything

Try position camera 0,0,0 and then if you want to make the camera go somewhere else make small changes to those values, like in increments of 2 or 4 units a time.

The rest of the code is fine except for the fact that your "splash screen" section should follow the initialisation part - put that bit first, leave it there and then code after it - it'll save you much grief!

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