help with sprites always in front of camera

Hello.

I'm writing a 3d app that displays a map and there are selectable entities on that map. I've created a sprite that is parented to the camera so that if any of the entities are picked the sprite is displayed in the centre of the screen telling me which one. Hurrah, so far!

The problem is that if I change the pitch, yaw or roll of the camera - ie, I'm tilting the landscape - the sprite buggers off elsewhere. I'm assuming this can be resolved by using entityyaw(), etc, but I'm not entirely sure what's required.

Can anyone give me some simple pointers? (and I don't want to use any third party stuff, good as it is)

Thanks.

Jes.

The best way is to use a separate, static camera for your sprites/HUD. Place it well out of the way of your main game area and use EntityOrder to draw the HUD camera last, then CameraClsMode HUDcam,false,true, so that it doesn't clear whats already on the screen upon rendering.

Hello.

Cheers, Jeff, that sounds like a plan :o)

Thanks,

Jes

Simple way - use FastImage http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=66995

He said he doesn't want to use any third-party stuff.

And have you tried changing the SpriteViewMode?