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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Help on best way to do this....

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Gilfalas
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Posted: 24th Apr 2003 10:20
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Hi

I would like to hear your opinion about this.

What I want to do:

I have some 3D action takeing place in the background. On top of this I want to have a sort of panel/console where the actual statistics of the game are displayed as text.

What I tried to do:

a) I used a sprite as the console. Unfortunately then I can't use Print/Text anymore, because said text will be drawn behind sprite. Is there any way to change this?

b) I tried to use get/paste image, however, then the black color in the console is displayed as black instead of transparent as in a sprite. And I also get a nasty flickering in the pasted image at each sync. However, text is displayed properly.

Any ideas on how to do this correctly?

Thanks for your help
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IanM
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Posted: 24th Apr 2003 10:28
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Use (b), and put an extra ',1' at the end of your PASTE IMAGE command. It will then be pasted with transparency.

To reduce/remove the flickering, you could try slowing your refresh rate down a bit - try to match your monitor refresh rate as closely as possible.
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Gilfalas
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Posted: 24th Apr 2003 10:31
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Thanks a lot. I'll try that right away!

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Gilfalas
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Posted: 24th Apr 2003 10:39
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Flickering won't go away. BTW. only the pasted image flickers... not the rest.
Added code this time

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Gilfalas
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Posted: 24th Apr 2003 10:54
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removed extra sync at the end of the code. now it works...

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TheCyborg
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Posted: 24th Apr 2003 13:30 Edited at: 24th Apr 2003 15:05
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I spotted an error... In the beginning of your code you use:
Sync Off
Then later in your code you use Sync...???
Sync is off as standard so that doesn't need to be there. But then the 3D performance will be low....

In the VERY first line of you code put:
SYNC ON
SYNC RATE <Integer>
This will enable manual syncronisation and set the max framerate to <Integer>. You should adjust this to the speed of you code, if you understand.

Then ONCE in the END of every loop put:
SYNC or FASTSYNC
This will refresh the screen and make the code run (in most cases) very fast. I think this will correct your problems


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Gilfalas
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You sir are a genius ...hehe... and I am a stupid little "*+"#

I don't know why, but I completely missed this error. I don't know why I wrote Sync Off in the first place anyway. I usually use Sync On with manual Sync. I am getting too old for this ....

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heh... no problem...


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