Loading screen, how to edit?

(CovertOpz) #1

well im in this mod called Eastfront, and we are a major mod, and we would like to know where to mod the loading screen, i dont mean the gfx, i mean the posistions of them and such, we didnt see it in the ui folder, and dont know where to look for it, can any one help?:stroggbanana:

(TomTom7777) #2

There are defaults in the vanilla ET code for the map and side rectangles
ui_shared.h

//
// panelhandling
//

typedef struct panel_button_s panel_button_t;

typedef struct panel_button_text_s {
	float			scalex, scaley;
	vec4_t			colour;
	int				style;
	int				align;
	fontInfo_t*		font;
} panel_button_text_t;
...
// Button struct
struct panel_button_s {
	// compile time stuff
	// ======================
	const char* shaderNormal;

	// text
	const char* text;
	
	// rect
	[B]rectDef_t	rect;[/B]

	// data
	int			data[8];

	// "font"
	panel_button_text_t* font;

	// functions
	panel_button_key_down		onKeyDown;
	panel_button_key_up			onKeyUp;
	panel_button_render			onDraw;
	panel_button_postprocess	onFinish;

	// run-time stuff
	// ======================
	qhandle_t	hShaderNormal;
};

and ui_loadpanel.c and cg_loadpanel.c


panel_button_t loadScreenMap = {
	"gfx/loading/camp_map",
	NULL,
	[B]{ 0, 0, 440, 480 }[/B],	// shouldn't this be square?? // Gordon: no, the map is actually WIDER that tall, which makes it even worse...
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 },
	NULL,	/* font		*/
	NULL,	/* keyDown	*/
	NULL,	/* keyUp	*/	
	BG_PanelButtonsRender_Img,
	NULL,
};

panel_button_t loadScreenBack = {
	"gfx/loading/camp_side",
	NULL,
	[B]{ 440, 0, 200, 480 }[/B],
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 },
	NULL,	/* font		*/
	NULL,	/* keyDown	*/
	NULL,	/* keyUp	*/	
	BG_PanelButtonsRender_Img,
	NULL,
};

and ui_loadpanel.c again


...
panel_button_t* loadpanelButtons[] = {
	&loadScreenMap, &loadScreenBack,
	&loadingPanelText, /*&loadingPanelHeaderText,*/
	/*&campaignheaderPanelText,*/ &campaignPanelText,
	NULL,
};

or cg_loadpanel.c again


panel_button_t* loadpanelButtons[] = {
	&loadScreenMap, &loadScreenBack,
	&missiondescriptionPanelText, &missiondescriptionPanelHeaderText,
	&campaignheaderPanelText, &campaignPanelText,
	&loadScreenMeterBack, &loadScreenMeterBack2, &loadScreenMeterBackText,
	&loadScreenPins,
	NULL,
};

and some key functions in ui_shared.c. Have not found any external data file to override the defaults as yet…
and as you no doubt know the map arena files determine the marker positions

(kamikazee) #3

Hmmm, so maybe you could externalize it, given that you code some load mechanism…

(CovertOpz) #4

thnx 4 comments, ill have the coder right on it