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Jan 30, 2004 at 12:42 PM

Hi, I am currently trying to develop a driving game to help me learn some games programming, I am a complete beginner by the way. I have got quite far but I am stuck on what is probably a simple probelem, so here goes. I want to display a kind of HUD for my game (showing just speed and that kind of thing) but have no idea of how to do this. I think this may require some blitting but I have no idea how to do this. So basically if anyone could tell me how to display my HUD or could point me to a tutorial that would be great. Any help is greatly appreciated

cowsarenotevil

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cowsarenotevil

Jan 30, 2004 at 9:29 PM

I''m afraid I''m not entirely sure what a HUD is, but I''ll assume it''s some kind of fancy-text-boxish thing, in which case we''ll need to know what API/library you''re using to do your rendering.

debo

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debo

Jan 31, 2004 at 11:29 AM

Sorry, I am using DirectX 9.

What I mean by HUD is just game information on screen, like the information at the bottom of the screen on Doom etc.

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