How to Make a Main Menu on IRRLicht

Futon Games · Post by **Futon Games** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:18 am

How to Make a Main Menu on IRRLicht?
I'm newbie at this engine and i need some help!

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:23 am

Check the code of the Demo application (in folder examples/Demo) or the quake viewer example from number 21 (IIRC).

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:44 pm

I think a good way to do it is to put all gui-elements used in your main-menu on one background gui-element (either on IGUIWindow or on IGUIStaticText). Then you can enabled/disable the whole menu with a simple setVisible() call to the background element.

Futon Games · Post by **Futon Games** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:04 pm

hybrid wrote:Check the code of the Demo application (in folder examples/Demo) or the quake viewer example from number 21 (IIRC).

Thanks i will check it out right now

Futon Games · Post by **Futon Games** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:05 pm

CuteAlien wrote:I think a good way to do it is to put all gui-elements used in your main-menu on one background gui-element (either on IGUIWindow or on IGUIStaticText). Then you can enabled/disable the whole menu with a simple setVisible() call to the background element.

Thanks i will check it out right now

Adler1337 · Post by **Adler1337** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:45 pm

I use two devices, one for the main menu and one for the game, but CuteAlien's suggestion would probably be a lot easier. The benefits from doing it with two devices are you can collect all of the settings the user wants from the first device and create a device with those settings for the game. Not all settings can be set while the device is running so having two devices lets the user have more control.

Futon Games · Post by **Futon Games** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:22 pm

Adler1337 wrote:I use two devices, one for the main menu and one for the game, but CuteAlien's suggestion would probably be a lot easier. The benefits from doing it with two devices are you can collect all of the settings the user wants from the first device and create a device with those settings for the game. Not all settings can be set while the device is running so having two devices lets the user have more control.

Hmm,Can you do a tutorial or something? I didn't exactly get it

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:30 pm

Futon Games wrote:
Adler1337 wrote:I use two devices, one for the main menu and one for the game, but CuteAlien's suggestion would probably be a lot easier. The benefits from doing it with two devices are you can collect all of the settings the user wants from the first device and create a device with those settings for the game. Not all settings can be set while the device is running so having two devices lets the user have more control.
Hmm,Can you do a tutorial or something? I didn't exactly get it

Learn the basic first

hybrid wrote:Check the code of the Demo application (in folder examples/Demo) or the quake viewer example from number 21 (IIRC).

Adler1337 · Post by **Adler1337** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:35 pm

You just have two devices(windows). You start the first one and it has gui that lets the user choose options like fullscreen, antialiasing, and other options. There is a button or something that starts the game. The first device closes and the second one starts with the setting the user chose from the main menu(first device). Hope this clears it up.

Futon Games · Post by **Futon Games** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:46 pm

Oh yeah please someone make a tutorial cause im very nooob at game programming.I wanted to start with Dark GDK which codes are easy but i couldn't compile the project dunno why.Now it's better with Code::Blocks and Irrlicht so can someone please do me this favor?

randomMesh · Post by **randomMesh** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:51 pm

Futon Games wrote:Oh yeah please someone make a tutorial

There already are

Adler1337 wrote:You just have two devices(windows). You start the first one

Tutorial 1.

Adler1337 wrote:and it has gui that lets the user choose options like fullscreen, antialiasing, and other options

Tutorial 5 and Demo.

Adler1337 wrote:There is a button or something that starts the game.

Demo.

Adler1337 wrote: The first device closes and the second one starts with the setting the user chose from the main menu(first device)

Combination of the tutorials above.

Well, programming might be fun, but it is work also.

Futon Games · Post by **Futon Games** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:31 pm

randomMesh wrote:
Futon Games wrote:Oh yeah please someone make a tutorial
There already are
Adler1337 wrote:You just have two devices(windows). You start the first one
Tutorial 1.
Adler1337 wrote:and it has gui that lets the user choose options like fullscreen, antialiasing, and other options
Tutorial 5 and Demo.
Adler1337 wrote:There is a button or something that starts the game.
Demo.
Adler1337 wrote: The first device closes and the second one starts with the setting the user chose from the main menu(first device)
Combination of the tutorials above.

Well, programming might be fun, but it is work also.

Aha thanks a lot.But i have a problm with demo.Even though i have installed IrrKlang or how it is called i have the same problem.I will re-install it and when i finally make it i will start combine the tutorials.THANK YOU AGAIN EVERYONE!!

Futon Games · Post by **Futon Games** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 3:34 pm

I did it!!!
THANKS,THANKS,THANKS,THANKS,THANKS,THANKS,THANKS,THANKS,THANKS,!!!!