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Aronjames
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Posted: 25th Jul 2003 21:34
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I am making a space shooter type game and I need some help with scrolling the background so that the player has some idea which direction he is traveling in. I was thinking of inversing a sphere and texturing it so that it would look realistic but have no idea how to do it. But if theres another way please tell me.
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Mattman
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Posted: 25th Jul 2003 21:38
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I belive there is a 'scroll backdrop' command but it might not be in pro.

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ReD_eYe
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Posted: 25th Jul 2003 21:43
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scroll backdrop is in pro you have to use uv texture coordinates

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Andy Igoe
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Posted: 25th Jul 2003 22:22
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The direct answer to your question would be:

scale object sphereObjectNumber,-100,-100,-100

This may not be the best/most efficient technique, depending upon what you are trying to achieve.

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3dZmaster
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make a sky sphere. Texture it with your sky teksture. Then do this:
scroll object teksture objectnumber,0,0.05

I made same kind of a game, but it the camera was in top of the ship and ship cound't go nowhere but forward. I used plain and tekstured it. Then I scrolled the texture. But this should work in sky pshere too, but If you are doing same amking same kind of a game than a did then you should use plain that just follows the object position.

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HZence
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hmmm....is this 3D or 2D? if its 2D, just make a tile-able background and just have the images repeat by subtracting from Y coordinate as the user moves

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Aronjames
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its a 3d game wiht full x,y,z movement and dbpro doesnt like my system so im using standard db.

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