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Blanka

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Posted: 26th Feb 2003 15:44

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Ok, im in college and i used to be quite good at DB, way before DB pro.

well anyway for my project at college we have to make a presentation, ive made mine about a horses and kennels place, i have made a presentation all about the place and i would like to add credits to the CD in an EXE.

the CD will be sold for charity (damn buggers wont let me earn out of it)

i am not a newbie at DB but i would need some help, never tried moving text around on a 3d backdrop before
if anybody has examples or can offer help or suggestions or if an experianced person can add [email protected] to their MSN address so i can pester them when i need help that would be great.

i was thinking like semi transparent shapes with cool textures flinging about in the background, with some sorta scrolling credits....

some sorta particle demo mixed in with the credits so its not so boring basicaly...

thankyou in advance to anybody who can lend me a hand

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Blanka

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Posted: 26th Feb 2003 15:48

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hey just looking around, i see familiar faces with the likes of INDI, Rich, ect...

i think my username back then was "Tricker" or maybe "Phuct64" on the old forms i was one of the top posters (helping newbies and general spam and being amazed by mallagan mainly...lol) and one of the beta testers for that rather cool 3D game creator thingmey

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Posted: 26th Feb 2003 22:37

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Hey, if you have any simple paint programs I would suggest simply typing up some credits there and saving that as a bmp so then you could make it a sprite in db.

Else wise, since you will be using 3D and text, youd have to make the text a sprite anyways, so using a paint program would just save you that one step.

After you have your sprite, make a small function to dec the y position of the sprite on the screen, and slowly bring it up.

Hope this helps you.

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Blanka

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Posted: 26th Feb 2003 23:04

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i was kinda hoping for the text not to just be a picture, saving it in DATA commands would be more usefull when it comes to editing them, plus there are 4 people involved in it and we have to say everything which each one did so the credits will begin to get quite big...

i saw a thing which was a text command to make scrolling text in a star wars theme agggesss ago... does anybody happen to have this? scrolls from huge and in front of the camera to tiny and far away... i could adapt that...

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Jadelion

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Posted: 27th Feb 2003 01:25

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what you want is to go to

http://www.darkforge.co.uk

you'll find the starwars scroller setup and a bunch more good stuff. Rich probably would have said this but I beat him to it.

...that move was indeed...Bold.

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indi

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Posted: 27th Feb 2003 03:07

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sounds like good advice jadelion

that method if im correct from memory uses a 3d plain with text as a texture on it and scrolls it up the screen allowing certain 3d angles like in starwars intros.

http://www.lunarpixel.com

http://www.lunarpixel.com/dt/

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Zach

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Posted: 27th Feb 2003 04:58

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try this:

sync on
hide mouse
x=320
y=450

do
y=y-1
if y<0 then y=450
center text x,y,"credit":sleep 100
sync
loop

but thats just one line of text ...

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Posted: 27th Feb 2003 13:55

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Indi: Yep thats what I do

Hound Dog: Actually I was just going to suggest this

the only prob would be you would have to decrease the Y coordinate for each line of text which would be a pain in the butt

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Hamish McHaggis

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Posted: 27th Feb 2003 23:02

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try this...

rem **********************
rem *  CREDITS EXAMPLE   *
rem **********************
rem * By Hamish McHaggis *
rem **********************

rem Store credits data
data "CREDITS"
data ""
data "WRITTEN BY..."
data ""
data "Some Guy"
data "That other Person"
data "The Freaky One"
data "Bill Gates"
data ""
data ""
data "VOICE ACTORS..."
data ""
data "Chicken"
data "Mr Happy"
data "The Grimreaper"
data ""
data ""
data "GRAPHIC DESIGNERS..."
data ""
data "Mr Whatshisname"
data "Moonface"
data "Enid Blyton"
data "Dr Lunitic"
data "Man 1"
data "Man 2"
data "Woman 1"
data "Woman 1.23"
data ""
data ""
data "THANKS TO..."
data ""
data "You, You Crazy Freak"
data "!?!?!?!??!"
data "Me"
data "Me Again"
data "And lastly ... ME!!!"
data ""
data ""
data ""
data "THE END!!!"

rem Setup environment
sync on
hide mouse
autocam off
rem Make object for background
make object cube 1,20
color object 1,rgb(255,0,0)
rem Position camera
position camera 0,25,-50
point camera 0,0,0
rem Colour backdrop
backdrop on
color backdrop rgb(255,255,255)

rem Assign credits array with data
dim credits$(1000)
for x=25 to 100
   read credits$(x)
next x

rem Set position and colour of text
text_x=320
text_y=0
ink rgb(0,0,0),0

do
   rem Rotate cube
   cube_rot=wrapvalue(cube_rot+1)
   yrotate object 1,cube_rot

rem Scroll text upwards
   text_scroll=text_scroll+1
   text_y=0-text_scroll

rem Use text_scroll variable to find which lines are meant to be on screen and display only them
   for x=text_scroll/20 to text_scroll/20+24
      center text text_x,x*20+text_y,credits$(x)
   next x

rem Loop back
   sync
loop

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rem **********************
rem *  CREDITS EXAMPLE   *
rem **********************
rem * By Hamish McHaggis *
rem **********************

rem Store credits data
data "CREDITS"
data ""
data "WRITTEN BY..."
data ""
data "Some Guy"
data "That other Person"
data "The Freaky One"
data "Bill Gates"
data ""
data ""
data "VOICE ACTORS..."
data ""
data "Chicken"
data "Mr Happy"
data "The Grimreaper"
data ""
data ""
data "GRAPHIC DESIGNERS..."
data ""
data "Mr Whatshisname"
data "Moonface"
data "Enid Blyton"
data "Dr Lunitic"
data "Man 1"
data "Man 2"
data "Woman 1"
data "Woman 1.23"
data ""
data ""
data "THANKS TO..."
data ""
data "You, You Crazy Freak"
data "!?!?!?!??!"
data "Me"
data "Me Again"
data "And lastly ... ME!!!"
data ""
data ""
data ""
data "THE END!!!"

rem Setup environment
sync on
hide mouse
autocam off
rem Make object for background
make object cube 1,20
color object 1,rgb(255,0,0)
rem Position camera
position camera 0,25,-50
point camera 0,0,0
rem Colour backdrop
backdrop on
color backdrop rgb(255,255,255)

rem Assign credits array with data
dim credits$(1000)
for x=25 to 100
   read credits$(x)
next x

rem Set position and colour of text
text_x=320
text_y=0
ink rgb(0,0,0),0

do
   rem Rotate cube
   cube_rot=wrapvalue(cube_rot+1)
   yrotate object 1,cube_rot

   rem Scroll text upwards
   text_scroll=text_scroll+1
   text_y=0-text_scroll

   rem Use text_scroll variable to find which lines are meant to be on screen and display only them
   for x=text_scroll/20 to text_scroll/20+24
      center text text_x,x*20+text_y,credits$(x)
   next x

   rem Loop back
   sync
loop

Its for DB, not DBP sorry. But it might give you an idea.

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hexGEAR

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Posted: 27th Feb 2003 23:19

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yep i use a very simillar method to hound and hamish, since the game/program is in 3D when using text it refreshes itself (if u know what i mean) so just basically store your credits in text arrays or somthing then move them accros the screen, a very simple yet professional method, however if you want the fancy flashy techniques then check out dark forge!

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Posted: 28th Feb 2003 01:20

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whats the use of using that data command? why don't you just store these strings directly in the array variables?

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Hamish McHaggis

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Posted: 28th Feb 2003 18:46

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data is a bit easier cos you dont have to change the array number each time you want to enter in some new info...

data "999"
data "666"
data "333"

this is equal to but easier than..

array$(1)="999"
array$(2)="666"
array$(3)="333"

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