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Help with loading screen

by Spencer Strombotne · in General Discussion · 08/14/2008 (10:16 am) · 8 replies

I have it right now that the mission loads at the MainMenuGui and has the progressbar on the main menu. As soon as the mission is done downloading the mission automatically starts. I want to have it so that after the mission finishes loading, a button appears that a player can click to start the mission. How would I go about doing this?
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Sailendu Behera
#1
08/14/2008 (10:33 am)
Look into the serverCmdMissionStartPhase3Ack(%client, %seq) function in the missionDownload.cs in the common\server directory. It does the end job of the mission loading process. There are the calls to these two functions

%client.startMission();
%client.onClientEnterGame();

it starts the game, you can comment them and put a button appear function there, and when the button is pressed, call these functions to start the mission. I haven't tested in though, but it should work.

Spencer Strombotne
#2
08/14/2008 (10:37 am)
I got the button to appear but couldn't get the button to work.

Sailendu Behera
#3
08/14/2008 (10:51 am)
What command you've given to the button?

Spencer Strombotne
#4
08/14/2008 (10:53 am)
Command = "startMission();onClientEnterGame();";

Sailendu Behera
#5
08/14/2008 (11:02 am)
It wont work because these functions are called from reference of %client, you can see in my above post. So in the serverCmdMissionStartPhase3Ack(%client, %seq) assign the %client to a global variable like $myClient and call those function as

$myClient.startMission();$myClient.onClientEnterGame();

from the button.

Sailendu Behera
#6
08/14/2008 (11:14 am)
I've just tested it now and it works so fine. What about yours?

Spencer Strombotne
#7
08/14/2008 (11:21 am)
Yep, works thank you again for your help

Sailendu Behera
#8
08/14/2008 (11:28 am)
Nice... glad to help you