Castle Paradox

[Bob the Hamster]

If you subscribe to the developer's mailing list you already know this, but the latest nightly WIP builds now support a user-definable main menu, with sub-menu support, and other nifty goodlyness.

Please test it out, and report your experiences

[TwinHamster]

Oh man, this sounds so awesome!
I haven't really looked into it too much, but if it's able to call up scripts from the menu, I may just try to make a game out of menus :p

[djfenix]

if you manage to implement character mug-shots or graphics or whatever along with this, i will love you forever

[Fenrir-Lunaris]

[jabbercat]

I remember requesting this YEARS ago.
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[msw188]

Wow. So many great things, but I have some questions/requests. First, what is "non-selectable" supposed to do with caption type menu items? It seems to me that it should prevent the cursor from being able to highlight the caption at all, but it is doing nothing for me that I can tell right now. Secondly, I think there should be an option to have the menu items be center aligned like the old menu, or right aligned for that matter.

Of course, I can't stop without putting forth the following idea. Can menus be set up to have two more menu item types: item-types and attack-types? The subtypes would be the ID number of the item/attack. The default text string would be the name of the item of attack, and when selected, these would trigger the action of the item/attack.

Following up from this, have plotscripting commands been thought of concerning menues yet? The main things should be commands to open any menu by hsi name, to close a menu, etc. But it would also be stupendous to have the command "append to menu (menu:name, menuitem:itemtype, menuitemsubtype, bitset flags)". As you can maybe see, I'm trying to wiggle my way into having character-specific item menues.

The true coup d'etat would be to then have attack options in battle access user-defined menues, which would not show menu-items that link to text boxes or scripts, but would correctly implement everything else (only really useful if item-types and attack-types are implemented, I suppose)
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[Newbie_Power]

Many many nice things can be done this if we figure out how. I think people will use this to make class changing/skill personalizing interfaces or custom battle systems, mostly, or skip the title/load screen and have personalized title screen intros that take a bit less plot scripting to pull off.

I'm not sure what I'll use it for yet, though, heh.
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[msw188]

Extending my previous post, it would be best if item-type menu items coul be set to delete themselves after use (based on the actual items 'consumed by use' behavior). Another helpful thing would be the ability to delete menu items, both in custom and using plotscripting.

Yet another thing I thought of was the ability to have text boxes link to menues, similarly to how they link to scripts or shops or whatever. Could be done with a script to open a menu, but it would also be nice to have the functionality for this in custom through the textbox editor.
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My first completed OHR game, Tales of the New World:
http://castleparadox.com/gamelist-display.php?game=161

This website link is for my funk/rock band, Euphonic Brew:
www.euphonicbrew.com

[JSH357]

This is a great change. Now we can make our own esper/materia-ish systems, job class systems, equipment that sets movesets and costumes... the possibilities are endless. I just wish I was still interested in making jrpgs; this would have been great four years ago. :p

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[TwinHamster]

Is there any such plotscript command that will let me specify which menu I want to be the default one that pops up when I press [esc]?

[Bob the Hamster]