Rendering with P3D and need kind of HUD-Display

jensbendig

Hi There, to become more familiar with P3D, I am coding a little Tank-Attack-Clone, what works really fine and doesn´t need much code. I even can position the camera by tracking locations with the ModelX()-Functionality. All Great.

BUT: I am used to print some text onto the screen with the text-function. Since I am now in 3D, this doesn´t work anymore: the texts, are now positioned in the 3D space, too. How can I get something like a HUD-Display for my 3D-Tank-Attack?

Thx,

Jens

hondaman900

As long as your using Procssing 2 the best/easiest way is to use the ControlP5 library of GUI controls. There's an option to display the controls over a 3D display and still interact with the 3D view. Check out the examples provided with the library and on their website for how it's done.

Chrisir

there are tricks to do it. check the old forum. code:

      //here comes all 3D stuff
      //.....................
      //here comes all 2D stuff (the HUD)
      camera();
      hint(DISABLE_DEPTH_TEST); 
      text ("Fixed", 30, 30);

greetings!

jensbendig

Thank you guys! There's no mail-notification, so I wasn't aware, you answered already... I want to avoid controlp5, so I try chrisir's Suggestion - if I understand it... Jens