need help for character selection menu

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miss shasha

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Posted: 14th Oct 2011 22:59

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hi. does any body have an idea on how to implement a character selection menu? i have 4 characters in my game and i need a character selection menu but i don't have idea on how to make one. please help me, i need some examples on how to do this.

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Da_Rhyno

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Posted: 14th Oct 2011 23:43

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Well, that depends... how do you want to select your characters? Through a picture menu or a text menu?

A text menu is one where you use a text prompt to select a number for the character you want.

Similar looking to this:

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"PLEASE SELECT A CHARACTER FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST:_"
"1. Joey"
"2. Tanya"
"3. Will-Bob"
"4. Aries"

A picture menu is where you use the arrow keys to select a picture of the person.

What you'd do in that case is draw the four images on the screen, and then draw a box around an image to "highlight" it. That's your cursor of sorts, and when the person hits the arrow keys left or right, it will move the cursor over accordingly, and if you hit ENTER or another key to select the character, then that's the character you use.

Sorry if I'm being too general.

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Pincho Paxton

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Posted: 14th Oct 2011 23:44

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Make 4 picture of your characters. If each picture is a square, or rectangle it has a zone. top x, top y, bottom x, bottom y. Clicking inside that zone...

if zoneclicked(280,15,431,66)=1
character = 1
endif

function ZoneClicked(X1,Y1,X2,Y2)
J=0:X=mousex():Y=mousey()
if X>=X1 and X<=X2 and Y>=Y1 and Y<=Y2 then J=1
endfunction J

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chafari

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Posted: 15th Oct 2011 00:49 Edited at: 15th Oct 2011 00:59

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Hi there. Here's an easy way to do that.

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autocam off
sync on
for i= 1 to 5
  make object sphere i,5
  position object i,10*i,0,0
next i

position camera 20,0,-70
point camera 20,0,0
a#=1
do
set cursor 0,0:print "SELECT WITH MOUSE    MOVE WITH  UP/DOWN KEY"
if mouseclick()
for i= 1 to 5
  color object i,rgb(255,255,255)
  if pick object(mousex(),mousey(),i,i) then a#=i
next i
endif
if object exist (a#) then color object a#,rgb(255,0,0)

if upkey() then move object up a#,0.01
if downkey() then move object down a#,0.01

sync
loop

Cheers.

I'm not a grumpy grandpa

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miss shasha

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Posted: 15th Oct 2011 19:30

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thank you for the response!

@da_rhyno: thanks for the reply. its ok

i actually want to make a picture menu. thanks for your idea, i will try it. how about when i select the character and press enter or return key. will i use gosub or goto for my chosen character to appear on my first stage?

@pincho paxton: ok. thank you i will try it

@chafari: thanks!

thank you all! such a big help for my problem. highly appreciated! God bless

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Daniel wright 2311

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Posted: 15th Oct 2011 23:04 Edited at: 15th Oct 2011 23:04

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Or you coulld say something like this

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If carselect1=1 and leval=1 then load object "files\my first object.obj" ,1

If carselect1=2 and leval=1 then load object "files\my second object.obj" ,2

If carselect1=3 and leval=1 then load object "files\my third object.obj" ,3

so on

then just dissplay pictures of each model to click on,if you click on picture three then it will be carselect1=3,its that simple realy my good friend.

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