Words on screen

Just create a window like so:

$window = Window_Base.new(x, y, width, height)
$window.contents = Bitmap.new(width - 32, height - 32)
$window.draw_text(4, 0, width - 40, height - 32, "Text")

Replace "x" "y" "width" and "height" with the correct dimensions.

If you don't want a window background, you could do a similar thing with a plain Sprite:

$hud = Sprite.new
$hud.x = x
$hux.y = y
$hud.bitmap = Bitmap.new(width, height)
$hud.bitmap.draw_text(0, 0, width, height, "Text")

If you want the text centered or right aligned, first make sure the "x" and "width" are set to the entire bounding box it will be centered in (to center the screen, use a width of 640). The :draw_text function has an optional argument after the text that is {0: Left; 1: Center; 2: Right}.

You misunderstand, that script goes in a Call Script inside an event. Then, I think, your first code should work.

Karl, it should be:

$game_variables[x].to_s

That will fix it.

No. You can add more strings to that:

$hud.bitmap.draw_text(0, 0, 36, 36, $game_variables[16].to_s + "99 bottles of beer on the wall")

Just use the '+' sign between each string. If you want them on different lines, you would need to add another "$hud.bitmap.draw_text" line, but I don't know if that requires a new sprite. If you're using the window method, you only need one window but for the sprite method I'm not sure...

Shweeet!

Since it's a sprite you're using, I'm not sure how to change the color of it. If you were just drawing text in a window you would use ".font.color". Maybe the sprite would be something like ".hue = red"? I'm sure Meu can tell you, but it looks like you guys are about to kill him in Wolf Hunt, so whether he WANTS to tell you is a different matter

$window.opacity = 0

Try that.

woo, script kiddies.. How fun.. any nice xp friendly tutorials on xp friendly ruby on rails (assuming this is the primary language used).

Also, Any good guides for peeps coming from other languages.. I mean I can probably find that.. these posts gave some insight to how RPG maker handles scripting, but when should the scripts be used in the events VS.. under scripts? from what I can tell, the scripting editor appears to work for the structure of the development software, declaring global functions for use and formatting windows and such.. Pardon my vagueness, My learning up to this part have been purely bookworm, Non functional programs mostly copy pasta from books.. different languages, vax 3.2, python, C, CGI scripting vaguely, most work done in MS-DOS scripting. Choice.com was meh best friend.

why doesn't this work?

text = "Hello"
text.class
=> String

$hud = Sprite.new
$hud.x = 36
$hud.y = 36
$hud.bitmap = Bitmap.new(36, 36)
$hud.bitmap.draw_text(0, 0, 36, 36,
$text)

It's wierd not sure I completely understand the way to set the variable type, or how to call it.
I can understand the .to_s as converting to a string.. but why not a int? how is a int declared?

Indigo, try

@text = "Hello"
$hud = Sprite.new
$hud.x = 36
$hud.y = 36
$hud.bitmap = Bitmap.new(36, 36)
$hud.bitmap.draw_text(0, 0, 36, 36, 
@text)

Karl, did you try replacing the color names with numbers?

Here ya go, Karl:

$hud = Sprite.new
$hud.x = 36
$hud.y = 36
$hud.bitmap = Bitmap.new(36, 36)
$hud.bitmap.font.color = Color.new(255, 255, 255, 255)
$hud.bitmap.draw_text(0, 0, 36, 36, "text")

Just adjust the numbers in "Color.new" to get the color you want.

Try using this... text_color(2) in substitution of this part: Color.new(255, 255, 255, 255)

I know it doesn't assign a direct color from RGB, but the 2 draws off from something I do not know about...
I have also only tested and successfully applied its use on self.contents type of stuff within the code...so I do not know if this would apply to your hud coding.

If the colors are the same in RMXP as it is in RMVX, 2 should be red and 3 is green. 0, is white, the default text color I'm guessing.

There's lots more colors, but I haven't experimented enough with all the different colors to memorize them.

If applied to what I'm saying, I'm intending the code to look like this:

$hud = Sprite.new
$hud.x = 36
$hud.y = 36
$hud.bitmap = Bitmap.new(36, 36)
$hud.bitmap.font.color = text_color(2)
$hud.bitmap.draw_text(0, 0, 36, 36, "text")

I've never worked with anything but window text before. So I'm just hoping this can apply to a bitmap...or sprite...

Did you try this? It's gotta be exactly what's in the code bracket below.

$hud.bitmap.font.color = text_color(2)

Or did you already try that, but accidentally put a typo in the code?

Congratulations

:Drool: Can't wait for the demo of your game!

Your welcome for the thank you, though Egg_Dragon totally gets full creds for his attempts to solve this problem.

BUT meustrus gets full creds for providing the base code to work off of in the first place.

Hey now. My coloring method worked for me, Karl, so what did you do wrong? Hehe, j/k. Actually, I'm not kidding. So what was your syntax error? That means you typed something incorrectly or left out a bracket or comma or parenthesis or something silly like that.

UPDATE: So here's the skinny--using the call script command sucks sometimes, because if a line of code is broken into two lines it won't always work. That was the case this time. If you copy and paste my code above, it won't work because the color line is broken into 2 lines. What you need to do is, turn the coloring part of the code into 2 separate lines like this:

$hud.bitmap.font.color = 
Color.new(255, 255, 255, 255)

As long as the "Color.new" is on the same lines as the numbers, the program will read it correctly. This WILL work. The entire code will look like this:

$hud = Sprite.new
$hud.x = 36
$hud.y = 36
$hud.bitmap = Bitmap.new(36, 36)
$hud.bitmap.font.color = 
Color.new(255, 255, 255, 255)
$hud.bitmap.draw_text(0, 0, 36, 36, 
"text")

And if it doesn't, use your delete, backspace and enter keys to make it look like that!

If you use the numbers, though, you have a much broader range of colors to choose from

Actually no, not just lighter and darker colors. There is a limit to the "text" colors that RMXP stores by default. You can see what colors those are by typing up a text window event command and doing "\c[x]" where x = the color you want, then press F2 to view your text window. Using the RGB numbers gives you far more. But hey, details details...

Try this:

text = sprintf("HP %04d/%04d", $game_variables[5], $game_variables[6])
$hp.bitmap.draw_text(0,0,150,100,text)
text = sprintf("MP %04d/%04d", $game_variables[7], $game_variables[8])
$mp.bitmap.draw_text(0,0,150,100,text)

Remember that it's draw_text, not draw.text