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by Kevin Ryan · in Torque Game Builder · 02/20/2006 (12:43 pm) · 2 replies

When attaching a gui to a t2d object is the gui object drawn in the same layer as the object that it is attached to?

Specifically I've got several static sprites with a text gui attached to them. Right now when the sprites overlap each other the text will all be drawn on top of all the sprites which is not what I want.
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Torque 3D Owner Stephen Zepp
#1
02/21/2006 (6:45 pm)
"Real" Gui objects are not aware of the TGB render layers--they simply render on top of the scene as a whole. In this particular circumstance, I would suggest using a second t2dobject that just contains text as your "gui"--that way you have complete and total control of how, where, and when it's rendered.

It's actually a great use as well--we are recommending to many customers to consider TGB as a "super-gui" layer for highly dynamic and controllable interfaces for when the stock TGE gui system doesn't give them the bling they want.

Associate Kevin Ryan
Top Meadow Inc.
#2
02/21/2006 (10:29 pm)
Thanks Stephen. I figured that out when I saw that the attached GUIs were being added as childs of the T2D SceneWindow and so were drawn after all T2D objects within the Scene Window. Unfortunately the text I'm displaying is entered by the user so it could be anything and therefore I can't pre-build a set of bitmaps with the text to use as t2d objects within the scene.

I ended up just modifying the code so that I could render the regular gui objects on different layers within a t2d SceneWindow.

I guess I gotta start calling it TGB instead of T2D.