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Springheel

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I just realized that we're missing something with the main menu.

 

When you're in the middle of a game in D3 and hit 'esc' you go to the main menu (so you can adjust controls or whatever), but it is a slightly different main menu, with options to "resume game" or "quit current game".

 

We don't have that with our menu. When you hit esc, you go to the regular main menu, with no option to continue your game.

 

We need to fix that. I can create the extra buttons needed. But how do we call the alternate menu while you're in game?

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I have no idea, but couldn't you look at Doom 3's in-game main menu to see how they did it?

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Possibly--but the default main menu is a mess and it's hard to find anything in there, especially when most of the menu is the same as the "paused game" menu. I'm hoping Napalm will have some idea based on the work that he did before I go slogging through all that. :)

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If that were the case though, wouldn't it trigger an error when we hit esc during game instead of loading our main menu?

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Sure. :)

 

Since it's loading the main menu, then I imagine there must be some kind of 'if' condition that sets the 'resume' buttons to active. But I don't know what that would be.

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I haven't done any testing to confirm this, but a quick glance at the menu suggests the following:

 

The named event "PlayIntro" is called if the intro movie should be played. (eg, the menu is loaded from a normal game)

The named event "NoIntro" is called if the intro movie should not be played. (eg, the menu is loaded from the editor)

The gui parameter "gui::inGame" is non-zero if and only if a level is loaded.

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It needs an option both to resume game and to quite the current game (if you don't quit one game and start another, your system drags).

 

Napalm, if you want to add the functionality in, I'll add and position the graphics.

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Any progress on this Napalm? If you haven't already done it I'll start giving it a shot this weekend.

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I've been messing around with the warnings for the options but I was going to try to work on the ingame this weekend. I'm happy to do it unless you have some vast desire to. I was curious if the button should just go beneath the quit game, and if in quit game there should be a quit from level without quiting game option.

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Ok, here's what I think should be done:

 

when gui::ingame =1 (or whatever)

 

The main menu should have the following buttons. Resume Mission takes you back to the mission. Quit Mission shuts the map down and returns you to the regular main menu.

 

resume01.jpg

 

If you go to the controls menu while ingame, then the Resume Mission button remains, but the Quit Mission is replaced by the Main Menu button (the one that would be there normally).

 

 

resume02.jpg

 

For now you can just use text buttons, and I'll replace them with graphics later.

 

 

Can you post any changes that you make to the code, btw? It will make it easier for me to integrate them if they come a little at a time rather than tons of changes all at once.

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The sooner the better, because I keep getting annoyed when I accidently hit 'esc' to get out of the console window and then can't return to my map. <_<

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Is there a way to exit a particular mission without quitting the whole game? The only way to kill myself in some maps is with fire arrows and then I have to go change my walkspeed again.

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Is there a way to exit a particular mission without quitting the whole game? The only way to kill myself in some maps is with fire arrows and then I have to go change my walkspeed again.

If you're in an open area you could fire your fire arrow straight up in the air and wait for it to come back down again. :) We really need to fix that bug in the bow script though, and have it make use of Gildoran's encumbrance system.

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