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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Planet Name (Text in 3D Space?)

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Nightman
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Posted: 25th Aug 2003 08:03 Edited at: 25th Aug 2003 08:03
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I am currently developing a game in which you fly a space ship from solar system to solar system with many planets in each What I would like is the name of the planet to appear with the planet so you can see its name as you fly towards it.

The planets are all orbitting different suns.

I was thinking of creating an object with the text of the name of each planet... but this does not do exactly what I want...
Does anyone know some way to do this with sprites perhaps or something else?...

any thoughts/ideas/CODE Maybe?

Thanks in Advance!
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The admiral
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Posted: 25th Aug 2003 13:06 Edited at: 25th Aug 2003 13:07
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use screen x and screen y to position the text. Ther is an example in the dark basic help files of how to do this.

[href]www.vapournet.com/~flyer[/href]
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David T
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Posted: 25th Aug 2003 13:14
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That's what I would do also. Be sure to put the following code in, as sometimes object screen x/y return values even if the object is not in the screen:



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Nightman
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Posted: 28th Aug 2003 02:25 Edited at: 28th Aug 2003 02:28
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Thanks Guys, That kinda did what I was lookin for... but the how to tell when the planet is behing another object so it doesn't show the text like its going through another object...

admiral_flyer_dude: which demo has the example?

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