[GoldNux]

I'm trying to understand how to create and manipulate entities but the tutorials I find are a little weak. Let's say I use the following code to spawn a sprite above a players head:

            
            new vec1[3]
            get_user_origin(id, vec1)
            
            message_begin(MSG_ALL, SVC_TEMPENTITY);
            write_byte(TE_PLAYERATTACHMENT);
            write_byte(id);
            write_coord(80);
            write_short(g_flash_sprite);
            write_short(200);
            message_end();

First I would like to know how to move the sprite.
I know I can change "write_coord", but it only makes it go higher.
What if I want to make it go to the left or right?

I have tried to insert coordinates but it crashed my server.
I would also like to know what part of the coordinates that define height etc.

I also want to know how to change the scale of my sprite.
And how to make a transparent sprite. I have downloaded four different software and followed many guides and I just can't make the tranparency work.

1. I create a 72x72 .bmp file, with the transparent part totally black and the rest in grey/white.
2. I convert it to 256 colors with a software
3. I load it in Sprite Explorer and export a .spr file with the additive transparency setting.

I have downloaded other peoples sprites and they seem to work, but not my own.

Thank you very much!