Hi guys, I'm currently working on a top-down turn based rogue like. The camera follows the player (or enemy) around - whichever actor's turn it is. When it is the player's turn, I would like to display text as a menu but also have the camera above the player. Is there a way to print text without it being effected by the camera offset? Or should I be negating the offset with my print x/y co-ordinates?

A snippet of my player's draw function (called by function _draw())

function player:draw()
 --centre camera if it is the player's turn
 if actor_index == 1 then
  camera(self.x * 8 - 64, self.y * 8 - 64)  
 end

 -- draw the player
 spr(0,self.x * 8, self.y * 8) 

 textanimcolour += 1
 if textanimcolour > 15 then textanimcolour = 0 end

  if actor_index == 1 then

   --if we are in the move_or_action state, draw the menu as well.
   if self.state == "move_or_action" then
   --recentre camera
   camera()
   --draw the menu
   local yoffset = 80

--move_or_action_menu is an array of strings
   for i=1, #move_or_action_menu do
    local text_col = 5
    if i == self.menu_selection then text_col = textanimcolour end
    print(move_or_action_menu[i], 10, yoffset, text_col)
    yoffset += 10
   end
  end
 end

Apologies, I'm new to pico-8 and the forums, I'm not sure how to make the code indent when i paste it above. Happy to post the cart so far if it helps

I solved my own problem. Just a logic error. I needed to set the camera back after drawing the menu so the other entities and map were drawn in the correct location.