Animated Background (Pause)Menu instead of texture

PurpleShine

Hi, I need to change the scene for this but I also need to be able to switch back to gameplay. Is this possible in AC or not yet?

GeometriX

When you talk about an animated background, do you mean something in-engine? If so, It might be easier to switch to a separate camera that's off the scene somewhere in the distance, with all the background stuff in front of it, when the user brings up the pause menu. I don't have Unity with me now, but I believe it's possible to customise the pause action list, or I'm sure it's at least possible to define additional actions.

ChrisIceBox

Another trick: use multiple Player prefabs, with one as your main player, and another as your "Pause menu player" (invisible).  Have your Pause menu in a separate scene, but instead of using Engine: Change scene, use Player: Switch and switch to your "Pause menu Player" in that scene.

Then when you're ready to return to gameplay, you can just switch back to your original player, and the game will return you to the correct scene.

PurpleShine

Sounds clever, I will try that! @ChrisIceBox

PurpleShine

@GeometriX Thought about that too, but my levels are lightmapped and I just want the same color etc when going to the Menu but thanks for the help.

PurpleShine

Hi Chris @ChrisIceBox, that did the trick! The only problem that is left is when I am in my Main menu (called Pause) and I go to Save or Load etc, the level goes back again to where I was instead of staying in the "Pause menu player". How can I solve this? 

PurpleShine

Well, I fixed it somehow by putting an actionList in resume, instead of in the MainPause Menu.

PurpleShine

(I mean in the "Resume" Menu)

PurpleShine

Another problem, I see just now, is that it doesnt remember the transforms when I go back to the scene. The player position is remembered, yes, but the rest isn't there anymore, like it goes back to the first state of the Remember Scripts of all objects.

ChrisIceBox

That could be a bug - what do your Player: Switch Actions look like when switching to and from the pause menu scene?

PurpleShine

Oh really? I thought it was how AC worked. I thought when I read about Switching players mid Game with the example of Day of the Tentacle it automatically not only stores the player inventory and position, but also the state of the objects in the scene. But the objects always go back to the first state (this works perfecly when saving though). I will post tommorow a screenshot since I am on mobile. But I can try now, in the Pause menu I run an ActionList when turned on which is:
(Run in Background)
Player : Switch
New player: Pause_Menu_Player
Restore position Checked
If first time in game:
New player position: Appear in other scene
Choose scene by number 3
After running: continue

And when turned off, this ActionList:

Player switch
New player: Wohian
Restore position checked
if first time in game:
New player position: replace current player
After running continue

PurpleShine

(I still use AC 1.43)

ChrisIceBox

DOTT-style scene saving/loading is certainly what should happen - like I said, the fact that they aren't is quite likely a bug.  I shall look into this, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

PurpleShine

So here is the Menu On:

And here is it off:

PurpleShine

So the state of the objects should be automatically saved when switching to another scene? At first I thought I needed to put a lot of bools in OnLoad but that would be strange because the game already saves and loads well. The Inventory and the player position are correctly saved though.

PurpleShine

And I thank you for looking into it! 

ChrisIceBox

Hang on - are you saying that saving and loading for the room is not working when player-switching, or not at all?

When it comes to saving room objects, you still need to tell AC what to save - this is done by attaching "Remember" scripts to them.  For example, to save the visibility of an object, you give it the "Remember Visibility" script.  This is covered in section 9.2 of the manual.

Again, if what you're reporting is a bug, I'll fix it - but I just want to make sure that's clear if it wasn't before.

PurpleShine

Ok, Step by Step, with Screenshots:

This is my Game inGame(not that it matters but just to demonstrate the problem)

Now, I want to switch to the Menu, so I press Esc, I need a different Scene, because I want to have animated water in the MainMenu as background.

I also want to be able to go from this MainMenu to the other Elements like Load and Save in this same scene:

PurpleShine

And obviously if I press Escape, the Load Menu element for example should go back to the MainMenu and when I press Escape again, the MainMenu should close and go back to the Scene that I showed on top, which is InGame. The First problem is that when I want to save a Game, it saves the Scene where I am in, which is the Pause_Menu_Player, it should save the InGame scene, and obviously not the Menu. But yes, it saves the Scene from the Pause_Menu_Player obviously, I am not sure if this is possible in AC yet, unless I use a sort of heck..

PurpleShine

The second problem: I am InGame, an interaction takes place and a block becomes visible. Here is it in the Screenshot:

PurpleShine

Then I go back to the MainMenu: