Gay is relative..

You can actually define a screen entity before a panel or a sprite.. but thats REALLY uncomfortable. Workaround: you can set in FFP shaders a flag that renders the entity as very last entity, this should work

Code:

---

extern texture entSkin1;
technique renderLast
{
	pass p0
	{
		DepthBias = 1;
		//TEXTURE STAGE [0]
		Texture[0] = <entSkin1>;
	}
};

---

So you could define a sprite as a screen entity which serves for the prerendered background. So when you use an actor in an invisible level this should actually work.

Thnx for the code Heelx , I know nothing of shaders or materials so didnt really understand it , but will look into it , having the ability to use prerendered scenes would be really awesome.

because panels and view entites are differnt

a panel is placed in the 2D view plane, a view entity is placed in the 3D coordinates relative to the view

donno why you are having problems though placing entities over panels, seems to work fine

My code was intended to move 3D models on absolute coordinates that are rendered in front of a screen entity panel.

vec_to_angle the view entity will work too

So how did u get the model infront of the panel in your screenie Grimber ? vec_to_angle ?

set the view entitys layer higher than the panel.



entity on left is layer 5, panel is at layer 3 entity behind panel is layer 1 but both entities are at x=50 distance

use vec_to_angle to keep the entity facing the screen, entity on the left is being rotated to face the screen