Post #1 · Posted at 2016-11-05 01:40:49pm 7.4 years ago
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Hi all,
So I've got an idea of what I want my character select screen to do/look like. But I'm not sure how to make it so I can get icons to move etc. I'm thinking I might need to do the following in my metrics file but I've never played around with this sort of stuff.
ChoiceNames="1,2"
Choice1="Charmy A"
Choice2="Charmy B"
DefaultChoice="1"
What I'd like to get happening is the cursor highlighting the next/previous character depending on whether they press menu left/right.
Now I know this idea is not really portable to other themes as it stands in its current state, however, I would like to get the basics down first and then I'll work on making it easier to work within other themes.
Right now there is nothing documenting character select screens online and the default setup for the character select screen in the metrics is pretty old and busted.
What I've got currently is this:
* The "card" on the left (and on the right when P2 is joined) changes to the next/previous character when the user uses menu left/right.
* The character list is one large image that I've put in temporarily to show how I want it to look (though for my purposes this image might stay in my theme).
* The P1 blue highlight box over Charmy A at the top left is the highlight that I want to move to hover over each character when they press menu left/right.
* The character model of Charmy A which is beside the card up the top is animated and the way I think I could get this to change (considering before a character is selected the game uses the "default" folder - which I've put Charmy A into as that way it looks right for now) is by having the GAMESTATE:SetCharacter(PLAYER_X) when the left/right menu buttons are pressed. Currently if you select a character and then go back to the character select screen, the character will change to the selected character so I believe this idea could work.
If anyone has any ideas/suggestions as to what I could do for this, it'd be great if you could help. Stepmania 5 coding guides aren't very common online from what I've seen (at least the ones I've seen don't really go into enough depth that I need to make this happen).
As you may have noticed from my other threads asking for help, I'm continuously working on the code/solutions myself too so if I get anywhere I'll keep everyone posted in here.
I really appreciate all the help I've received so far and I hope I can help others by completing this project.
So I've got an idea of what I want my character select screen to do/look like. But I'm not sure how to make it so I can get icons to move etc. I'm thinking I might need to do the following in my metrics file but I've never played around with this sort of stuff.
Quote
ChoiceNames="1,2"
Choice1="Charmy A"
Choice2="Charmy B"
DefaultChoice="1"
What I'd like to get happening is the cursor highlighting the next/previous character depending on whether they press menu left/right.
Now I know this idea is not really portable to other themes as it stands in its current state, however, I would like to get the basics down first and then I'll work on making it easier to work within other themes.
Right now there is nothing documenting character select screens online and the default setup for the character select screen in the metrics is pretty old and busted.
What I've got currently is this:
* The "card" on the left (and on the right when P2 is joined) changes to the next/previous character when the user uses menu left/right.
* The character list is one large image that I've put in temporarily to show how I want it to look (though for my purposes this image might stay in my theme).
* The P1 blue highlight box over Charmy A at the top left is the highlight that I want to move to hover over each character when they press menu left/right.
* The character model of Charmy A which is beside the card up the top is animated and the way I think I could get this to change (considering before a character is selected the game uses the "default" folder - which I've put Charmy A into as that way it looks right for now) is by having the GAMESTATE:SetCharacter(PLAYER_X) when the left/right menu buttons are pressed. Currently if you select a character and then go back to the character select screen, the character will change to the selected character so I believe this idea could work.
If anyone has any ideas/suggestions as to what I could do for this, it'd be great if you could help. Stepmania 5 coding guides aren't very common online from what I've seen (at least the ones I've seen don't really go into enough depth that I need to make this happen).
As you may have noticed from my other threads asking for help, I'm continuously working on the code/solutions myself too so if I get anywhere I'll keep everyone posted in here.
I really appreciate all the help I've received so far and I hope I can help others by completing this project.
