whitespirits Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 Hi guys, im looking to put that chat on screen in eo3 or make a style similar to eo4\. At the moment i have a big black box on screen that looks awful, can any1 help with a tutorial? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavos Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 I've never seen how EO4 has the GUI rendered, are you talking about having a transparentchat box included in the game screen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitespirits Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 yes, at the moment its a black box and it looks awful :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoOne Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 I use Eo4 and when I was learning about Gui changes I was able to make my new chat box transparent simply by doing what Lavosa stated, rendering it transparent with a program that has a transparency function on it. As I said I did this in EO4 so I am not sure if it'll work in your case… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitespirits Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 u mean like photoshop or gimp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoOne Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Exactly, as long as it has transparency. The only thing is I've not tried it on any other Eclipse engines so I do hope this works on other versions for you as well. Or I hope someone corrects me at least… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hisherwin Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 noone01001 suggestions won't work on EO3, don't bother try, EO4 already have a build of rendering the interface on screen.. you just have to modify the location on it.. EO3 doesn't have, you must render the chatbox on code Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoOne Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Thank you Sherwin for the correction before he spent to much time trying it my way… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbofile Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 I put up a tutorial on this site that renders the chat to the screen. Currently it only displays in the color white and is made for Eclipse Worlds.[http://www.eclipseorigins.com/community/index.php?/topic/136047-eclipse-worlds-chat-drawn-to-screen/](http://www.eclipseorigins.com/community/index.php?/topic/136047-eclipse-worlds-chat-drawn-to-screen/)To get it to work with EO3.0 change any instance of picForm to picScreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtaker26 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 it doesn't use transparency, there's a function in DirectX i believe it's called DrawText. If you try to draw a something hovering over a picture box as it's being rendered it will cause this weird flashing thing. Look how names are drawn that will give you the function and arguments you need to draw it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitespirits Posted January 3, 2015 Author Share Posted January 3, 2015 > I put up a tutorial on this site that renders the chat to the screen. Currently it only displays in the color white and is made for Eclipse Worlds.> > [http://www.eclipseorigins.com/community/index.php?/topic/136047-eclipse-worlds-chat-drawn-to-screen/](http://www.eclipseorigins.com/community/index.php?/topic/136047-eclipse-worlds-chat-drawn-to-screen/)> > To get it to work with EO3.0 change any instance of picForm to picScreen.so will this work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtaker26 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Yeah, if you draw the text to the screen using DirectX, it's basically the same concept that draws the sprites and stuff, I beleive that's how everyone else did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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