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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Text and sprite layer priority

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zerosimms
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Hey all

Wondering if you can help, I've had a look for the answer but the questions are slightly different. I have an issue with my game and layering text using the
command not print, ontop of a sprite.

Image I have a PNG the size of the game window and I want to display my characters life
ontop of the PNG. How can I do this?

I have tried SET SPRITE PRIORITY and this just either hides the sprite or places it ontop of the text.
Oh and my text is the last thing to be loaded in the script.

Any help would be great.

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zerosimms
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Posted: 16th May 2011 19:34
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I've done it!
Anyone else having this issue do the following within the loop of your game:

sprite 6,0,0,6 : hide sprite 6
paste sprite 6,0,0

Seems a bit backwards to me but nevermind it's working.

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Quel
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Posted: 16th May 2011 21:03
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Only the paste sprite line belongs into the loop.

Creating the sprite and hiding it are just initializing the sprite for future use.

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zerosimms
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Thanks Quel you are quite right!

I have just noticed a slight issue though, I had some code that would trigger events on my sprite (6). Now I'm using paste I'm assuming it assigns the pasted sprite a new ID because my triggers are no longer working.

Any ideas how I can get around this?

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Grog Grueslayer
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PASTE SPRITE is just like an ink stamp. It stamps the screen with whatever the sprite looks like. If you want to keep using SPRITE COLLISION you keep updating where the sprite is using the SPRITE command. Even if the sprite is hidden it's still on the screen at the coordinates you last put it.

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zerosimms
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Thanks Grog, that works a treat, I feel a bit dumb for not thinking of that myself

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