Menu system

[SolarPortal]

Thanks for the patience and i will get around to it asap

[SolarPortal]

[planetX]

This is great, exactly what I need.

Thanks very much, I wouldn't be able to do anything without your support!

[SolarPortal]

Excellent If you need any other additions, then let me know

If you want to get the documents folder like most games do for save locations, then these links should help:

[planetX]

Thanks, very useful.

[planetX]

Hi peeps,

hope you're doing well... I'm currently rewritting the whole menu system (don't ask why ) and I want to organize the .lua script in separate files, instead of having all the code in one file. So the plan is having a main script, then import all the snippets in a sctructure like this:

- main
-> camera
-> player
-> sound
-> cars
-> tracks
-> etc...

But it's not really working, and I guess is because all the snippets have a section inside the onInit() function, which I'm replicating on each script. So my questions are... can I even have more than one onInit()? Do I have to assign an ID to each snippet? Should I group all the commands inside the onInit() function in a separate file too? (I don't like that much)... what would you do guys?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers

[StarFire]

[planetX]

[SolarPortal]

[StarFire]

By knowing the object ID we can communicate with any object or objects script in the scene, including the scene script. Being passed by the onInit(objID) we can write generic scripts that will adapt to any object the script is attached to, assuming the commands are relevant

[planetX]

I think I got it... I just need to get used to those concepts, as I didn't have such possibilities in the old game engine I was using.

Thanks guys for the support, as always.

[SolarPortal]

ahh i see, skyline has a lot of interactivity between entities which is how you control what happens in games or as StarFire wrote it, so same scripts can be reused on different entities. Then when extended with dynamic properties in scripts, you can have interchangeable values all from a single script.

... and no problem We are happy and ready to help

[planetX]

[SolarPortal]

[planetX]

Now I'm starting to understand...

Yes, it helps a lot. Thanks very much for the info and the files, they're really useful. I also like the idea of moving the menu array in a separate file.

Next time I'll try to be more descriptive, sorry for that.

[SolarPortal]

no, dont worry about it.

You'll be a pro lua programmer before too long
Keep up the great work!

[planetX]

I just felt bad for forcing you to recreate the situation... although you were really close, despite the dumb question. I have to take care of my developers, they are the future.

Nah, just wanted to say that now everything is working. I was just doing it wrong. Thanks again!

[SolarPortal]

[planetX]

[SolarPortal]

I will take a look later on for you

[planetX]

Great!

BTW I've just noticed that it's the same with the "control", "alt" and "delete" keys. I particularly need to know the "enter" and "delete" ones in order to enable a keyboard navigation.

[StarFire]

lol fully featured key commands

[SolarPortal]

[planetX]

[SolarPortal]

haha cool

Looking forward to releasing this next version as its had a huge... amount of changes.