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Newcomers DBPro Corner / HUD is made, need some help.

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Silver Wolf276
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Posted: 15th Aug 2008 04:42
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Alright so I got this ugly HUD made and have it ingame.

How would I be able to put text over the HUD?

I'm currently using Sprites and here is an excerpt of my code.



The HUD topics I have looked at don't have any information on putting Text infront of the HUD so I can't really find how to do this =\

Thanks once again!
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Phaelax
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Posted: 15th Aug 2008 22:03
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Short answer, you can't. There's a command "draw sprites first" that will then let you display text on top of sprites, but unfortunately, 3D objects will also appear on top. I really with DBP would get this issue fixed.

Your alternative is to display text by using an image for each letter.


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Silver Wolf276
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Ah, was afraid of that.
Guess I can stop searching lol.

Thank you
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Sixty Squares
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Posted: 16th Aug 2008 00:29 Edited at: 16th Aug 2008 00:32
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It's quite possible with these two commands. I do it all of the time:

HIDE SPRITE
PASTE SPRITE

Just hide the sprite first, then paste its appearance where the sprite was. This way it won't always go on top.

Pseuedo Code:


Snow Demo
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Nano brain
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Or...take an image of text and use it with a new sprite(one with a higher z-priority than its bg counter part).

Example(not tested, but am sure everything is correct):



If I'm correct, then pasting the HUD sprite onto the screen each loop while the 3D backdrop is on may cause a major performance hit. Since sprite in DBP are literally 3D objects anyway, you will be better off going with my method here.
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Silver Wolf276
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Lol it changes my hp bar at same time.
I'll fix though =)
I finally can get some HUD things done now so thank you!
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