2D graphics overlaying 3D

How do I get my 2D graphics or text to overlay my 3D background while the 3D background? An example of what I am talking about would be the start screen of Juno Nemesis, the way the menu is overlaying the moving 3D background. Is their a certain general rule on this? Thanks for any help.

Just place the 2d stuff after Renderworld() and before Flip and it should work.

i cant remember the code, but i know it is possible. You just have to draw the 2d after the draw of the 3d. im sure if you look at some of the code archives there are a few menu tools etc. that you could use as reference.

However, 2d over 3d slows things down considerably. I might suggest you use sprites as your menu just in front of the cameras FOV. This will allow you to adjust the alpha/transparency on the menus, which you really cant do with 2d overlays.

Very easy actually. Just DrawImage your images after you've rendered the scene (RenderWorld).

Note that 2D graphics do not automatically scale to different resolutions. If this is not a problem then use the 2D commands.

If you need the "2D graphics" to scale to different resolutions, then a better option would be to create a 3D sprite and place it directly in front of the camera or draw it with CameraCLSMode to True after rendering the background first.

The author of Juno Nemesis uses FONText. Which means it uses a single-surface bitmap-font mesh. Effectively this is 3D quads/sprites.

OK. These answers will really help out. Thanks guys. Sounds like sprites in front of the camera is what I am wanting. Peace.