[Question] Draw_text over pictures?

[Alesteir]

Hello, it may seem like a stupid question but I can't manage to show the text, or any box at all, over a picture.

I'm using those functions: https://ruby-doc.org/gems/docs/o/openrgss-0.1.5/Bitmap.html And it doesn't say anything about priority or anything related to showing "over" something else, so I was wondering, if I'm missing something or there's another method to do that, how do I show drawn text over a picture on Rpg Maker XP?

Thanks in advance for any help :D

 

[Luka S.J.]

Hello, it may seem like a stupid question but I can't manage to show the text, or any box at all, over a picture.

I'm using those functions: https://ruby-doc.org/gems/docs/o/openrgss-0.1.5/Bitmap.html And it doesn't say anything about priority or anything related to showing "over" something else, so I was wondering, if I'm missing something or there's another method to do that, how do I show drawn text over a picture on Rpg Maker XP?

Thanks in advance for any help :D

If you're using Essentials, you have the

pbDrawTextPositions(bitmap,textarray)

which does it all for you. Otherwise in stock RMXP you can use (for a @sprite)

@sprite.bitmap.draw_text(x, y, width, height, str[, align])

For more info press F1 in RMXP, and search for "bitmap".

The priorities are determined in the order in which the code prints stuff onto the bitmap. There is no Z value or something. For instance if you used bitmap.blt and then bitmap.draw_text, you would first draw the bitmap image, and then overlay it with the text. So you need to structure your code right. An example in an update for instance:

bitmap = @sprite.bitmap
bitmap.clear
bitmap.blt(0,0,BitmapCache.load_bitmap("Image"),Rect.new(0,0,200,200))
bitmap.draw_text(0,0,200,200,"Food goes here")

This would clear the bitmap of any previous information it might have had. Then it would draw the image "Image", and it would write "Food goes here" on top of the image.