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FROGGIE!
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Posted: 25th Mar 2004 16:46
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ive got a sprite which fills up the whole screen and i need to write some text over the top of it. the part im writing the text on is black (RGB 0,0,0) so it should be transparent but it still isnt showing up. can ne1 help?

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Code Stealer
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Posted: 25th Mar 2004 17:05
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Let us see thine code....

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zircher
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Posted: 25th Mar 2004 19:17
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Well, most likely your sprite is sitting in front of the text. So you can write until doomsday and not see it. You either need to use paste image instead of a sprite [order is important, paste, print, sync], or move the sprite to the back, or do some bitmap magic and write to the sprite and copy it back to the sprite image.
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UnderLord
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well if your using a sprite then find that damn command called display sprite priority or something and have it set to last see if that helps if not then it could be the fact that your text is transparent? i dunno =) let us see the code!!! You always get reliable help that way!

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Jadelion
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I usually just write text to a background bitmap, get the image
and Make it into it's own sprite. Simple

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 26th Mar 2004 00:38 Edited at: 26th Mar 2004 00:39
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Maybe if you move the sprite out of the way, then type the text, then put it back where it was it might work, dunno. I think it will. Maybe your sprite doesn't have transparency turned on.

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andrew11
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You can do this if you use Paste Sprite Then hide the sprite. The pasted sprite will stay, and be able to write over.

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Code Ninja
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Posted: 27th Mar 2004 23:32
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Quote: "Well, most likely your sprite is sitting in front of the text. So you can write until doomsday and not see it. You either need to use paste image instead of a sprite [order is important, paste, print, sync], or move the sprite to the back, or do some bitmap magic and write to the sprite and copy it back to the sprite image.
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how do you move the sprite to the back?

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UnderLord
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by setting the sprite priority or you could try this

make a matrix position the camera to look down on the matrix make your sprite a image by doing the texture matrix command and forget everything about the sprite just forget it. Then you can use the set cursor command to position the text you want and then you know what to do after that.

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