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Pierre-Marie Baty · **send debug to HUD text? -** 22-01-2004

Hi guys

I noticed on some debug screenshots of some bots (especially JoeBot XP) that some of you were sending debug text to the HUD instead of the server console or the chat area.

Currently when I want to see debug messages in game about my bots I send them all to the chat area but when I want to send a lot of text all the stuff starts scrolling up and I can't see anything

What I saw on a JoeBot debug screenshot for example was quite amazing, there was a lot of text (with different colors), left/top aligned, some of it right aligned in the bottom of the screen, some of it centered, and every debug message had its location and was not overlapping another.

I am utterly jealous! How do you guys do that ?

I know how to send hudtextparms_t text to the HUD, but it's text that fades in and fades out, and I need to send it continuously if I want it to stay on the screen (and if I do that, it looks unclean). And although I can imagine how to split the screen coordinates into lines and coulumns I'm clueless on how to make it right-aligned or things like that.

Any hint ?

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Pierre-Marie Baty Roi de France Status: Offline Posts: 5,049 Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: 46°43'60N 0°43'0W 0.187A	send debug to HUD text? - 22-01-2004 Hi guys I noticed on some debug screenshots of some bots (especially JoeBot XP) that some of you were sending debug text to the HUD instead of the server console or the chat area. Currently when I want to see debug messages in game about my bots I send them all to the chat area but when I want to send a lot of text all the stuff starts scrolling up and I can't see anything What I saw on a JoeBot debug screenshot for example was quite amazing, there was a lot of text (with different colors), left/top aligned, some of it right aligned in the bottom of the screen, some of it centered, and every debug message had its location and was not overlapping another. I am utterly jealous! How do you guys do that ? I know how to send hudtextparms_t text to the HUD, but it's text that fades in and fades out, and I need to send it continuously if I want it to stay on the screen (and if I do that, it looks unclean). And although I can imagine how to split the screen coordinates into lines and coulumns I'm clueless on how to make it right-aligned or things like that. Any hint ? RACC home - Bots-United: beer, babies & bots (especially the latter) "Learn to think by yourself, else others will do it for you."