Ingame Menu

by JBridge on 07/24/2008 08:31, 9 messages, last message: 07/25/2008 11:40, 1040 views, last view: 04/25/2024 06:40

People were complaining about Sauer not having a starting menu, instead loading metl4. I think I may have a solution. Anyone remember how in Quake you would go around a map to select your difficulty level? Maybe we could do something like that. Maybe have a hall for single player, multiplayer, options, etc.

One thing though- we'd need a way to access a menu via an object. It's probably possible, but I don't know as I'm not familiar with CubeScript.

Thoughts?

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by MisanthropX/Redon on 07/24/2008 09:28

i dont really like the idea..
and: sauerbraten is a "map only" game.. its not possible that you start sauer without a map loading =P well and if u deleted metl4 its just a "newmap" but also a map

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by Max of S2D [Fr] on 07/24/2008 10:33

I remember an old Cube mod who had this \"hall\" concept.

It contained copyrighted material and I don\'t think it\'s on Quadropolis anymore.

One thing, if you manage to find it, there was fall damage and female voices, if I remember correctly.

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by SheeEttin on 07/24/2008 15:52, refers to #2

I remember the SSP module from SauerMod had one...

Sauer actually has an option now to show the main menu on startup, which I think defaults to true.
There's an option to toggle it in the options GUI somewhere, but I found it remarkably well hidden, for being out in plain sight. :P

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by tentus_ on 07/24/2008 16:20, refers to #3

You mean the "show menu on start" on the first page page of the options menu, second line?

I really can't think of a way to make it any more clear. 2D Gui option obviously outweighs the startup question, so it can't be first, and making it bigger text or something would be tacky.

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#5: Re: Hidden?

by SheeEttin on 07/24/2008 16:53, refers to #4

That's the one.

I don't know what it is, but it seems to have camouflaged itself so that my eyes skip over that one spot.
I don't think it needs to be changed, though. It's probably just me.

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by Joel Button (JBridge) on 07/25/2008 04:12

What I meant was selecting submenus by hitting certian spots on the map, similar to how you'd select the difficulty and episode in Quake. By the way, is there a way to change what map loads when you first start up the game?

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by Gambit on 07/25/2008 05:16, refers to #6

>> By the way, is there a way to change what map loads when you first start up the game?

yep, just pass -l"metl4" as a parameter on the command line, where metl4 is a map name. If you were wondering about a non-command line way, I don't think there is one.

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by tman_elite on 07/25/2008 05:45, refers to #7

It's in the source also, in fpsgame/fps.cpp at the very end of the file.

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by steve_e on 07/25/2008 11:40, refers to #6

Place -lmapname in sauerbraten.bat

i.e., -l followed by the name of the map you want to load

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