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Need help with a custom title screen.

Silek

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Hey guys, I recently got my hands on a script that allows me to skip the titlescreen scene, and directly start the game on whatever map I choose.

Now, my dilemma however is that I cannot correctly set up a custom title screen. What i'm doing is using 3 different pictures, it's laid out vertically like (Title - New Game - Continue - Exit Game), and I'm trying to set an event up that will cycle between the 3 different pictures(Each "underlining" the step as they are highlighted.), and the event is a parallel process that has forks that are conditioned by key presses.

Right now I have it set up in 3 pages, using a variable that goes up and down depending on if the player presses up on the keyboard or down.

Here's the pages. (By the way, before the player is transported to the title screen man, I put the overlay on the screen.)

1:
TitlescreenPage1.png
2:
TitlescreenPage2.png
3:
TitlescreenPage3.png

Obviously, it's not working well for me, sometimes it won't even register the keypressing or anything like that.

I'm sure there is some horrible horrible error in here that I'm just not seeing(or multiple errors), and I am definitely not good at this whole eventing thing, so if someone would be able to assist me with this, it would be greatly appreciated :)

(Btw, I really hope my putting the images in the spoilers was the right thing to do here. I haven't browsed the site too much or read too many threads, so please forgive me if I did something wrong, and be sure to point it out(Preferably in a PM.).
 
Uhm, I would do it kinda different, but ok, I'll go along with your method:

At the first image, it says:
<>Up button pressed
<>Blah Blah Blah
<>Title Screen Scrolling -1

You should change that to:
<>Title Screen Scrolling +2

And see what happens :O

If it doesn't work let us know.
 

Silek

Member

Ah man, I can't believe I missed that, thanks so much! It looks alright, but as you said, you would have done it a different way.

Would you want to share maybe how you might? I'd like to see what someone who's actually a skilled eventer can do.

Edit: Also I should probably make aware that this isn't the full event, I'm putting actual functionality besides scrolling in, as well as sounds and all that, if that has any bearing on your opinion.
 

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