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DarkBASIC Discussion / 3d background

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john619
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In Dark Basic, are the backgrounds used in game, just a bitmap, or a 3d half sphere that is textured?
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Chaos
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Posted: 9th Feb 2003 16:47
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They can be either or even just one colour
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hexGEAR
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yep thats right! most people use bitmaps for 2D games and either sky spheres or boxes for 3D games although it's your choice

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John H
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Posted: 9th Feb 2003 22:58
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For 2d:

Some use a bitmap, or something called a sprite.

For 3d:

Most use Skyspheres or Skyboxes.

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Killer Sponge
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You ever thought of doing backgrounds like unreal tournament. A seperate room with a box or some shape textured to look like sky, I had an idea of how to do it.
If you create this seperate room miles from your level. and its textured and stuff, make sure BACKDROP is OFF and basically before every sync have the camera filick to the position and then your players position always looking at the camera angle (DONT TOUCH THE ANGLE OR ELSE IT WUDN'T LOOK RIGHT) then sync, it would give the look off a proper 3d background, thus meaning the player could neva reach it. Oh corse if you player was standing in a completley boxed room they wouldnt beable to see the background. Has ne one eva had that idea?

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QuothTheRaven
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sponge, it's simple (and your idea is crazy and stupid).

You get a skybox or skysphere from somewhere (a big hollow box or sphere), make the appropriate textures, texture it, make it really big so that your char is inside it, and you're done. You are inside the box with a sky that seamlessly textures along the walls.
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John H
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Game, set and match

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koolaid
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hey im having problems with putting skyspheres in my game can you help in any way thanks

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koolaid
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hey im having trouble putting skyspheres inmy game can you help please.

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John H
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Load object "myskysphere",1
Load image "myskytexture",1

Position object 1,x,y,z
Texture object 1,1

Set object blah blah blah (read the manual)

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koolaid
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i got it now finally rpgamer i just had to get the right position and scale it correctly but now i have texture problems?
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John H
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Elaborate- what kinda texture problems are you having?

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koolaid
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oh i was referring to the four corners of the skybox when i textured or scrolled it you could see the lines of where it starts and ends scrolling as well i want the sky to look round not coming to any corners skysphere?
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