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Sprite
A customizable 2d-graphics object for your projects.
You can use the Sprite to add static/animated screen elements to your works, like for example a sight in a FPS game, the rotary dial of a speedometer in a racing game, the features of the cockpit in a flight simulator, the scrolling background of a 2D game and so on.
You can animate a Sprite by changing its orientation/location run-time with the Script object.
If the Sprite object is linked to a camera in the Object List, run-time it will be rendered into the viewport for that camera only. This is typically useful when you add split-screen functionality to your projects.
If this option is checked, the sprite will be bound to mouse movements. This feature is typically used to implement a custom mouse pointer for compiled projects running in full-screen mode.
If the project is not compiled or running in windowed mode, this option disables the sprite object.
You can set the general render priority group for the sprite.
There are 3 groups currently: render the sprite behind texts, over texts or as a background (i.e. behind all 3d objects in the scene except the SkyBox, if present).
The value next the drop-down list determines the rendering priority among sprites in the same general priority group. This value must be an integer. Negative values are supported.
Click the color button to open the color picker. Opacity must be between 0.0 (invisible) and 1.0 (fully visible).
Screen position of the image center. The screen center is at 0,0. Left/right margins are at -16 and 16. Top/bottom margins are at 12 and -12.
NOTE: don't forget that you can visually set the sprite location by clicking and dragging the mouse in the Virtual Editor window, without opening the property dialog every time.
Any size above zero is allowed. To fill the entire screen, set width/height to 32/24 and screen location to 0,0.
NOTE: don't forget that you can visually set the sprite size by right-clicking and dragging the mouse in the Virtual Editor window, without opening the property dialog every time (you can stretch the sprite by right-clicking and dragging while holding the [Ctrl] key pressed).
Sprite orientation, in degrees.
Save your image files to the
C:\Program Files\3D Rad\3DRad_res\objects\Sprite\Data\
folder.
To assign one image to a sprite, in the property dialog for the sprite, click the Change Source Image button and double click the image thumbnail.
Note that the image browser will only display a thumbnail of the image if your Windows installation supports its format.
For example, in order to display a thumbnail for images in .dds format you will likely have to install the NVidia DDS Thumbnail Viewer (free) or another similar utility.
If you want the sprite to show some per-pixel transparency (like the default one) you must use an image file format supporting alpha information (.dds, .png or .tga).
Supported image formats are: .dds, .png, .tga, .jpg, .bmp.
The following internal parameters can be accessed by using event objects like EventOnValue or Script:
