pause menus

[master0500]

what would be the best way to make a pause menu?
i want it so if you press P a menu floats up with Resume, Restart, Main Menu and exit
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[Hblade]

everything that moves, have it only activate when a variable called "paused" is equal to 0.

If something is moving at a velocity, you'd make a variable called vel_save, then add a script like this when the games pause button is pressed

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vel_save=directional_velocity;


Then when un-pausing, you'd have:

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directional_velocity=vel_save;


Thats if like, your using a bullet or something.

[foleyjo]

Just an alternative

For Pause use 1 to equal off and 0 to equal on

Then on all your movements that need pausing multiply the total speed by pause.
When the pause button is pressed use Pause != Pause
As we all know anything multiplied by 0 is 0 and everything multiplied 1 is what ever it was in the first place.

You can also use this method to pause any timers that are active too.

Examples

directional_velocity = speed * pause

X= (x+speed) * pause

Timer += Timer_Increment * pause

[Chai]

You can use PauseGameOn and PauseGameOff function.
These functions are in Game-editor.

it is really easy.

[Hblade]

Just an alternative

For Pause use 1 to equal off and 0 to equal on

Then on all your movements that need pausing multiply the total speed by pause.
When the pause button is pressed use Pause != Pause
As we all know anything multiplied by 0 is 0 and everything multiplied 1 is what ever it was in the first place.

You can also use this method to pause any timers that are active too.

Examples

directional_velocity = speed * pause

X= (x+speed) * pause

Timer += Timer_Increment * pause

Oh! =)

You can use PauseGameOn and PauseGameOff function.
These functions are in Game-editor.

it is really easy.

He means a menu ^^