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Yes, all of them (MenuBackground1, 2 and 3)

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Yes, but only MenuBackground2

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Yes, but without MenuBackground3 (unused default for various reasons)

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No

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Total Members Voted: 2

Voting closed: April 29, 2017, 09:57:25 am

[PrOF]

Do I even need to explain this?

Most of the background makers I found in http://www.ganggarrison.com/forums/index.php?topic=34573 are no longer active, should I keep their backgrounds in the plugin?

As for the ones still active, GOOD JOB on these backgrounds, if you want to, I'll remove them from the zip
 

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- Added default backgrounds to the background pool
Update 1.2
-Fixed displaying wrong title on startup (cool bug)
-Added quotes to titles
-Fixed a silly mistake
Update 1.1
-Gave credit where credit is due in the main menu
-Added a really cool bug that I don't know how to fix, see you in the incompetent's cry for help

Poll: should I add also the three default backgrounds?

[Fuzion]

So, if I were to make my own background, will it get displayed on the menu?

[PrOF]

So, if I were to make my own background, will it get displayed on the menu?

Yeah, I'll have to add it to the list and it will be randomly selected between the others

[Spazz]

The point of Menu backgrounds were the winners of the Haxxy comps...

[PrOF]

The point of Menu backgrounds were the winners of the Haxxy comps...

Hey the more backgrounds the better, I'll look up some more but it can always be customized, it isn't a complicated plugin
Do you have some suggestions?

[PrOF]

Update 1.1
-Gave credit where credit is due in the main menu
-Added a really cool bug that I don't know how to fix, see you in the incompetent's cry for help

[[FR]YB]

I downloaded and unzipped the archive in my Plugins folder.

Code: [Select]

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ERROR in
action number 1
of Draw Event
for object MainMenuController:

Trying to draw non-existing background.
Happens after splash screen.
Fixed by moving the PrOF folder into Resources. (The original zip contained the plugin script and a PrOF folder, but it should have contained the script and a Resources folder which would have contained the PrOF folder)



You should probably still explain your bug in this thread.

So, when the game starts it correctly changes background, but shows "Aftermath" by Natsu

Also, I just checked and it does work correctly (the caption) when you go back to the main menu (i.e. go to any menu, then go back to main menu)


Oh boi, I found it. It's the DevMessageChecker.
It fires a http request when it's created, to get data like the latest version, the changelog... and the background info.
The thing is, the DevMessageChecker is created AFTER the MainMenuController runs its ev_user1. So your custom MainMenuController changes the backgroundTitle, all is well, but then when the http response for the DevMessageChecker comes, your backgroundTitle gets updated, and the MainMenuController is never called back!

See on github

You could hack around it by forcing your backgroundTitle in a step event. I wouldn't rely on an alarm, because http request times may vary a lot depending on internet speed, stability and availability.

[PrOF]

I downloaded and unzipped the archive in my Plugins folder.

Code: [Select]

___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 1
of Draw Event
for object MainMenuController:

Trying to draw non-existing background.
Happens after splash screen.
Fixed by moving the PrOF folder into Resources. (The original zip contained the plugin script and a PrOF folder, but it should have contained the script and a Resources folder which would have contained the PrOF folder)



You should probably still explain your bug in this thread.

So, when the game starts it correctly changes background, but shows "Aftermath" by Natsu

Also, I just checked and it does work correctly (the caption) when you go back to the main menu (i.e. go to any menu, then go back to main menu)


Oh boi, I found it. It's the DevMessageChecker.
It fires a http request when it's created, to get data like the latest version, the changelog... and the background info.
The thing is, the DevMessageChecker is created AFTER the MainMenuController runs its ev_user1. So your custom MainMenuController changes the backgroundTitle, all is well, but then when the http response for the DevMessageChecker comes, your backgroundTitle gets updated, and the MainMenuController is never called back!

See on github

You could hack around it by forcing your backgroundTitle in a step event. I wouldn't rely on an alarm, because http request times may vary a lot depending on internet speed, stability and availability.

Thanks a lot YB, awesome as always

[PrOF]

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- Added the default background to the background pool without credit to the author

[PrOF]

Small update: now the game chooses a background only once per session, previously navigating the main menu would be annoying