Hello Guys,

I having a problem here on how to make my 2d object to have the same coordinate to another 3d object, i mean i am creating a 3d game but i want to create a 3d object that is invisible and on top of it will be a panel bitmap object, my problem is i cant get the 2d or 3d object in the same coordinate while moving.
Some advice place..

Is the 2D object a PANEL*? You should use a sprite instead, because you can position and rotate them in 3D space.

Create your sprite, set whatever angles you want and then use vec_set in a loop to place it above your 3D entity.

You can use vec_to_screen to convert the coordinates of the object to screen-space

other possibilties:
place a new VIEW under the bmap,
or use ent_createlayer, to place the item directly onto the screen

thanks for the answers guys,

i used vec_to_screen function but the panels did not display on the coordinate of the entity i specified.
below is my code:


vec_set (temp_pos, my.x); // copy the xyz coordinates of the entity to temp_pos
vec_to_screen (temp_pos, camera); // convert the 3D position to 2D screen coordinates
BombBrick2.pos_x = temp_pos.x; // and then set the position of the text
BombBrick2.pos_y = temp_pos.y; // on x and y
set(BombBrick2,SHOW);



please advice...

Please note that panels use their top left coordinate instead of the middle coordinate.
So maybe you should subtract the coordinate with a half of bitmap_width(or something like that)...