alpha on rectangles

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Stevie G

You were positioning the sprite too far away from the camera. The positionentity command is at local coords remember. You're scaling the sprite v big unecessarily. You were also colouring the sprite black so you wouldn't see it anyway.

Try this ...

Open in online IDE

Graphics3D 640,480,16,1

;create the camera
Global camPointer = CreatePivot()
PositionEntity camPointer,640,72,1895
TurnEntity campointer,0,-135,0,True

;campointerY = TerrainHeight#(terrain,EntityX(Campointer),EntityZ(CamPointer)) * 128
;PositionEntity camPointer,500,campointerY,700

Global cam = CreateCamera(camPointer)
MoveEntity cam,0,80,-100
CameraFogMode cam,1
CameraFogColor cam,150,150,150
CameraFogRange cam,300,1024

;the sprite for the background of the buttons
buttonbg = CreateSprite(cam)
ScaleSprite buttonbg,1,.5
EntityColor buttonbg,100,100,100
PositionEntity buttonbg,0,0,1
 
While Not KeyDown(1)

RenderWorld()
Flip

Wend

Hope this helps.

Stevie