Spawn points and menus help

[Vailfear]

Hi,

I've seen some examples of leadwerks being made into a multiplayer game but there are no tutorials or anything describing how or what they used to spawn a new player on the map. I also can't find anything on how to make a menu, instead of launching my game on a map i want it to be a menu where you have "options", create game, find game and of course exit. I know Noesis may be coming to leadwerks but i was curious if anyone else was able to help in this regard. Seeing as Noesis isn't a guaranteed addition to the le.

 

Thanks in advance,

Vailfear

[Olby]

Menu can be created using the Context->Draw and Window->Key\Mouse command set. You would have to script its behaviour such as drawing buttons and changing their colours when mouse is hovered above and such. The commands you need are:

• DrawImage
  
• DrawLine
  
• DrawRect
  
• DrawText
  

and

• KeyHit
  
• MouseHit
  

 

Or just wait until Aggror finishes FlowGUI which is going to be a paid LUA script set for menu creation using LE Flow Graph. Have a look here: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/7146-flowgui/page__st__20#entry81279

[Vailfear]

Thank you for the info on menus! I'll be sure to look into this. Anyone know how to setup a, im guessing, a pivot to act as a spawn point for different teams? Making a multiplayer game and gonna be using RakNet but need to know how to setup spawn points when people choose a team.

 

Thanks again in advance,

Vailfear

[Thirsty Panther]

According to this thread you can use Noesis with Leadwerks http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/7969-noesisgui/

 

It's pricey so I'm waiting for Aggrors FlowGUI.

 

People seem to be using Raknet for multiplayer implementation. Not sure if that will help with player spawning.

[gamecreator]

Though you sound like you're set on Raknet (and it's a great engine which a lot of people here use), I also posted code snippets for using Steam, if you want to take a look:

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/9663-introduction-to-steam-code-in-leadwerks/

The advantage to it is that it makes connections and a lot of other things like opening websites super easy. The disadvantage, of course, is that you need Steam. You can also do a hybrid, using Steam to connect and Raknet to transfer data (Steam can give IP info to you to use with Raknet).