newbie questions

[Dgross2005]

I am new to crystalpace but have been learning blender for quit some time now but still new to it.  I am starting on working with the blend2crystal and since I ultimately want my game to turn out to be an rpg I was wondering if any of you could point me in the right direction on how to create a GUI for my game?  since I will be trying an rpg I figure that a proper GUI is essential to game play seeing that half the game needs to be played with it and therefore a good place to start.  I have been looking around for tutorials and stuff but none really show me how it is even started.  Once i can make a simple quest screen or a hotbar i figure i can move on to the rest from there.  any info any of you can point me towards would be appreciated.

[Vincent]

Hello,

  the most straightforward way to have a GUI in a CS would be to use the CeGUI plugin.
Here's the manual section about it: http://www.crystalspace3d.org/docs/online/manual/CEGUI.html
You can also check ceguitest application for a code example.

[Dgross2005]

I ran into another problem today thank you for the help so far.  I have been follwing this tutorial http://b2cs.delcorp.org/vtut/alphaMappedTerrainPalette.htm on alpha mapped terrians with blender and have notticed it on some of the downloadable examples, when ever i change the renderloop to terrianfixed or anything the test window is always just black, or the terrian shows up without any of the textures all in grey  I know I am most likely missing something but not sure what it is. aso the alpha option seems to be missing. do I need to just scrap my whole install and start over maybe.  Any help on all this is greatly appreciated, and if there is a better way to do terrian in blender I am open to the suggestions.

[Vincent]

For that issue, my advice is to join #crystalspace IRC channel on chat.freenode.net,
and speak to caedes about it.
Make sure you post the solution here when you have it