Text and Backgrounds...

[sylus101]

Hello everyone...

When I have text printing where there is a background loaded, it acts all funky, showing a box where the text would be and completed blanking out (all white) the background that was there.

Can text be written over a background correctly? I've got a lot of rethinking to do with the game if not.

As a side note, and part of a solution if this is really the case, if I use the one palette for all sprites trick, does that mean I can basically have unlimited sprites?

[Jeremysr]

You should've posted your code, but I think I know what the problem is. It must be how you are using Screen.Initialize(). When you want to init two background (text background & tiled background) you need to initalize both of them in Screen.Initialize(). I'm guessing you have this code:

Screen.Initialize( 1, BGTopText )
Screen.Initialize( 1, BGTopTile )

When it should be:

Screen.Initialize( 1, BGTopText, BGTopTile )

Since the BGTopText is first in the function, it will place it on top of the BGTopTile background.

[sylus101]

Since each tutorial kinda shows one thing at a time... yea you hit the nail on the head. I'll post the code for sure next time.

Thanks man!

[suloku]

Then what exactly happens if the screen is initialized separately? Does it all get messed up or it just follows a defined order like the sprites?

[daltonlaffs]

Depends on exactly what you're talking about, really. In this case, initializing the text and then the background separately will glitch the fuck out of the text output.