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[SuperNESFreak]

Okay, I know it's a double post. I thought it'd be better to keep these two issues separate.

I always wanted to have the camera going in the direction your player is facing, but the problem is that the score and HUD doesn't display with the view. So, how would I do this?

This picture illustrates it better than I can describe.



The bar should be on the top of the screen.

[DanRedux]

Easiest way? A second view, on top, in which you draw your hud. Some problems arise, such as your second view re-drawing everything, such as the backgrounds. You have to do a view_current check in your draw event to see wether to draw the Stuff or the HUD.

Alternative? Use the rotation scripts such as draw_text_ext, to counteract rotation. You also need to counteract the positional rotational, so instead of drawing text at 5, 5, you'd have to "rotate" 5, 5, around 320, 240, which is:

x_hud = x + x * cos( -view_angle ) - y * sin( -view_angle )
y_hud = y + x * sin( -view_angle ) + y * cos( -view_angle )

x, y are where you WANT to draw. x_hud, y_hud are where they appear on the hud. You also have to account for the view position..

[SuperNESFreak]

Okay. So how do I stop the background from drawing on the second view?

[SuperNESFreak]

Nevermind, figured it out. Thanks alot!