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How Do You Make A Loading Screen/Menu

Postby bleazy123 » Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:12 pm

how can you make a loading screen and then let it show play and when u click on play it brings you to the screen to play da game?
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Re: How Do You Make A Loading Screen/Menu

Postby BloodRedDragon » Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:51 pm

um i think i know

If you want text saying loading then make a new actor as normal but DONT GIVE IT ANY ANIMATIONS! just click on actor control then text so you can add text. type "loading" or "loading game" then choose a font to use.

if you want Play to come up after a certain amount of time, you will need a Timer. Click on the loading actor then give it a new create actor event. Choose create timer and add a new timer. The timer length is in milliseconds so do about 500 seconds and
make it a specific quantity of 1. add the timer and use it

Now create an actor and give it text the same way you did last time. If you want, you can use a smaller font than used for "LOADING" to make it look better. use PLAY as your text. now for your play actor you want to add a event called a Timer event. Choose the timer that you made and select Create Actor. this means that when the time has elapsed the PLAY icon will appear. now on the play actor click No on "Create actor at startup" Position both actors in the screen and click game mode. your loading screen should now work.

But, you need to add a "Mouse enter" event for PLAY. add to this either move to or create actor. if you want the screen to move away from the loading screen select move to and move the screen to any x and y coordinates. if you want to create an actor that displays your game title or a welcome message then create a new actor with text or an animation and select create actor for this event. you might also want to destroy the previous actor.
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