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The time has come to test if Coppercube can be used to make a full, real game, despite it's 90's renderer and lightweight feel. I think it can. One thing that makes Coppercube shine - and I have tested almost every engine I can get my hands on - is that it can load ANY object without a real problem. All other engines have had problems with some or all of my 3D assets but anything I throw at CC just loads! So, now it's time to worry about a main menu with options and a save/load system - all games have it and CC made games should be no different. So, let's all create one and i'll share with the class. We also need to create cut scenes and I think multiple cameras, paths and some creative programming will get it done - although simplistic. So, who can point me in the correct direction to get a main menu started. Thanks. Mike |
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Here is what the MAIN MENU should at least do: Have a nice custom background, either still or video with music and text overlay: NEW GAME LOAD GAME SAVE GAME OPTIONS AUDIO OPTIONS VIDEO OPTIONS KEY MAPPING MISC QUIT Let me know if anything else should be included in the MAIN MENU. Mike |
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So I now have the background screen, main menu text and music in place. I assume I create new scenes for the load, save and options menus. Mike |
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I'm beginning to see that Coppercube needs a new camera type or scene type - the 2D scene NOT using any 3D items and allowing the user to use their mouse or keyboard. A main menu seems near impossible without this. I see no way of allowing mouse usage. I wonder if this is available in javascript? Mike |
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I solved it by using key presses - first letter of each menu option performs the action. It works. Not amazing, but it works. Mike |
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Hmm save and load system... It requires a lot of work. You can use this by saving variables when clicked on "Save Game" and when click on "Load Game" load all variables and according to that variables move the character to the saving position and make the enemies die which were died when clicked on "Save Game" just like 1100101001. Hope you understand my unexplained answer. If you say I can provide you the ccb file... 
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Right now I have the easy stuff done. Next I am working on the load/save and options (if options are even programmatically possible). @Niko - how do I set options for others to edit, such as video resolution, audio volume, key mappings, etc? Every game - and I mean EVERY GAME has this. Mike |
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well, years ago i worked on a project which was a clone of the open world game GTA vice city..... I had already developed a few things like audio options, save and load functionality, a pause menu, skin selection menu,start game menu, load game menu etc... I dropped that project due to copyright issue... and due to lack of a few other features... The only thing in the menu which i hadn't done is Key Mapping....and graphics option. I will be going to upload that File soon on my website https://neophyte.cf.. now for the things that you have asked.... for audio option use the global variable system.soundvolumethere is hashtag before the variable... for resolution of the window... you can only display the current resolution of the game ...can't change it during runtime. |
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wrote: for resolution of the window... you can only display the current resolution of the game ...can't change it during runtime. Oh, ok. Any way to change this for next reboot of the game? Can we turn on and off the full screen effects? Where can I find all the audio, video and system options that are programmable for Coppercube? Mike |
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@karmacomposer I'm not sure how your menu looks like & if it's done through Copper editor or through script but take into account three things: 1. Text is not scaling together with game-window. 2. Images are changing their positions if game-window aspect ratio is not close to original aspect ratio (if your window is 16:9 & player resize it to, let's say, 1:1 your GUI is messed up). 3. You should make a non re-sizable game window with fixed resolution or change 'Position Mode to Absolute (pixel)' or do the GUI completely in code/script. |
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I read that you can use html with Coppercube. If this is true then can we use Twitter bootstrap to create responsive menus? If so then how do we attach Coppercube JavaScript to the html pages? For that matter, how would we pack the html into the finished game? Mike |
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CopperCube can use almost all modern cross-platform advantages, you can display Twitter, iframe Youtube or all other html-based content, use canvas-compatible effects, create divs, buttons and everything in real-time but there is one thing: your CC game has to be in WebGL. You can have a desktop build through NWJS, Atom or some other wrapper but, since the game is WebGL, it has to be much, MUCH, more optimized than for DirectX :) I'm at final stages of figuring out what's working & what's not working fps-wise for my game. It can be frustrating at times because most of the things that can easily run at 60 fps in DirectX are giving you about 20 fps in WebGL at best :D But for me it's a must since my CC levels will be part of a game that's including a number of different html/java/css/webgl components. |
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i need a tutorial of how to add the settings with like volume brightness and more things would be great im super new to this and want this in my menu thx |
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