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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Dynamic text on sprite

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Dar13
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Posted: 28th Jul 2010 05:08
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Hi everybody, I need some conceptual advice. I'm currently making a little RTS, and I'm coding a GUI for it(Age of Empires style) but i'm not sure how to display the selected unit's statistics dynamically without using an off screen bitmap and get image. I've used get image before and I don't want to cut that much fps at this point.

Does anyone have any other suggestions/methods?


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HowDo
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Posted: 28th Jul 2010 10:48
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you might of read about the paste sprite then sync then write the text, might work.

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baxslash
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Posted: 28th Jul 2010 12:13
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Have you tried using the D3D plugin? It works faster than the native commands and can write over sprites (I think...)

Anyway it's useful for lots of other stuff anyway and is free:
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=69221&b=5

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Dar13
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Posted: 28th Jul 2010 14:43
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Quote: "Have you tried using the D3D plugin? It works faster than the native commands and can write over sprites (I think...)"

Just tried that, no luck.


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Posted: 28th Jul 2010 15:01
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Instead of positioning the sprite on screen, Hide the sprite, and then paste the sprite to where you need it to be.

Then Draw some text

then sync

Hey presto

(Just like HowDo suggested...)

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Dar13
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Quote: "Instead of positioning the sprite on screen, Hide the sprite, and then paste the sprite to where you need it to be.

Then Draw some text"

That worked, thanks =Prof= and HowDo!


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IanM
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Posted: 28th Jul 2010 15:14
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Make an image, draw to it, set up a sprite.

You can do this using a camera to an image and then treating it as a bitmap, but it's a lot easier using one of my plug-ins - http://www.matrix1.demon.co.uk/Matrix1Utils_Help/Matrix1Util_33_index.html

Utility plug-ins collection (updated 26 July 2010) and
http://www.matrix1.demon.co.uk
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