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This small, simple tutorial will show you how to center align objects that constantly stay at that 1 set point. If you want text at the Top Center of the screen, then you would do this. Screen size: (Your size). We will use 640 X 480.

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xscreen = 640 / 4;
yscreen = 0;


Using the " / 4 " method, it devides the screns X by 4, thus making the center. if you want it at the top left constantly, then you would use 2 instead of 4.
The same thing with yscreen, if youw ant it in the center middle, xscreen = 640 / 4;, and yscreen = 480 / 4;.



Use this on Draw Actor.

Excellent!

Fuzzy pointed out an optimization that would be useful here; using decimals instead of fractions.

A computer has a much easier time calculating 640*.25 than 640/4.

In this case, however, you don't need to calculate that at all.

640/4 = 160, and always will, so why not just say
xscreen=160;



But your xscreen method makes a lot of sense, I always use actual xy values, and using xscreen would probably save me some headache. Thanks!

Looks great you two.

If you want to be flexible, you can do the following in global code.

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#define MIDDLE view.width >> 2
#define CORNER view.width >> 1


then in the HUD actor

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xscreen = MIDDLE;
yscreen = CORNER;