Text on sprite

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Swifty (Posted 2007) [#1]

I am making a 3D game , with the players name above them on a sprite, that is a child to the players character. When the players starts, I make a texture and write their name on it then copy the texture to the sprite. I am having a problem getting the players name to be Solid text, it always seems to be transparent. Any help would be cool. Swifty

Dark Ray (Posted 2007) [#2]

Try to adjust the alpha level,shininess and blend parameters for that sprite. In particular I think you could solve the problem doing "EntityBlend Sprite,2".

boomboom (Posted 2007) [#3]

http://www.x-pressive.com/SpriteCandy/index.html

jfk EO-11110 (Posted 2007) [#4]

On some computers writing text directly to the texturebuffer seems to fail. You should always text to the backbuffer, then copyrect from backbuffer to the texturebuffer. Also try Blendmode 3 for the sprite.

Barliesque (Posted 2007) [#5]

In case you're not already aware of it, Mixailv's FastImage library may help you out with this stuff: http://blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=66995

Swifty (Posted 2007) [#6]

Taken a different route, now I have the effect I wanted without sprites, thanks for the replies guys.