2d image on a 3d game

ok, im stuck. I have a 3d first person shooter game, I want to be able to put 2d images on the screen such as a healthbar or a picture of coins for money etc.......... I've even tried simply putting text on the screen and you cant see it. I cant figure out whats going on, wether it's being placed somewhere else in the game or what. So somebody help me!

2d graphics commands must be done after RenderWorld and before Flip.

if you want to do it with 2d graphics, as octothorpe says, do this:

repeat

updategame() ;normal game logic stuff in here
updateworld
renderworld
;draw 2d stuff here, for example it may be worthwhile to have something like this:
update2dstuff() ;function containing all calls to the draw/rect/oval commands you want to do
flip

As a temporary solution 2d graphics used in 3d mode is okay, but it is better to use quads or sprites to do this kind of thing.

I will reccomend using SpriteControl. It is a library that mimics 2d graphics over 3d environment. It was recommended to me in this very forum.

http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=456