Starting an rpg (really basic) need help to set a starting screen

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Sherikanman

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Posted: 12th Dec 2009 01:35

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if i can get the starting screen, I'm sure i can get a hold of everything else. i have a .JPG File that i'm gonna upload and wanted to know, can i set a key to make it when ever you press a button on that scren you get into the game? (I'm sure it's a basic commmand, but i'm really new to this)

just a simple comman please and thanks

(I'm going to use the game almost as a project for Humanities and even Computer animation class)

so if you could help me, that would be totally cool

and please excuse me if it was such an easy code (like less than 5 lines) because i had no clue what i was doing..hehe

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Posted: 12th Dec 2009 11:27

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Well, there's wait key (alternatively suspend for key, which supposedly is the exact same function), but that won't let you do anything inbetween (ie. animate something on your starting screen or whatever).

The way I would do it would simply be to check that no key or (if wanted) mouse button is pressed on the particular screen.
This would do the trick and should go in your starting screen loop:

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for k = 0 to 255
   if keystate(k)
      exit
   endif
next k

if mouseclick() > 0
   exit
endif

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Posted: 12th Dec 2009 17:05

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Generally when we make a new game the focus is on the game itself first to make sure we can actually do what we envision. The starting screens are done later. But if you're having trouble with the starting screen you won't be able to do the RPG without a lot of learning. Forget your dream game for now and start reading TDK's tutorials for newbies.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=99497&b=10

Also the best image format to use is .png... .jpgs don't keep the colors exactly how they are made and doesn't let you have an alpha channel (for transparencies).

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Sherikanman

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Posted: 12th Dec 2009 19:51

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i know i looked at TDK And I'm learning..and yeah it's a lil far-fetched but i've been messing around with stuff for a while now...

Thanks Rudolpho i'll try that

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Posted: 13th Dec 2009 02:46

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if you use waitkey you gota put sync before it or nothing will show

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Posted: 21st Dec 2009 20:58 Edited at: 21st Dec 2009 21:36

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You could use somthing like this

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LOAD IMAGE imagename",1
PASTE IMAGE 1,0,0

menuon = 1


WHILE menuon = 1
	IF SPACEKEY() = 1
	   CLS
	   menuon = 0
        ENDIF
ENDWHILE

Forgive me, I am not one of the pros, being reltivly new myself

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Posted: 21st Dec 2009 23:39

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hmm I'll try it and see if it works..thanks alot!!

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Sherikanman

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Posted: 21st Dec 2009 23:47

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GAH I have one problem, it only shows a black screen..i can't seem to be able to uplaod the image onto the screen >.>

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2009 00:50

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you mean at the beginning, it wont show the image? or getting an image after?

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2009 04:47

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Well like at the begginign and it says it can't find the file..when it's clearly there!!! and i even put it in something to show it's natural file! and it didn't even recognise it! even if the pictures were in .jpg or .gif files

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2009 05:51

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If you had read the help file section on LOAD IMAGE, you'd know that it doesn't even accept GIF images.

You're obviously loading the image wrong/getting a path error, so show us the code you're using.

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Sherikanman

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2009 06:46

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The one the one guy told me to use

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LOAD IMAGE imagename",1
PASTE IMAGE 1,0,0

menuon = 1


WHILE menuon = 1
	IF SPACEKEY() = 1
	   CLS
	   menuon = 0
        ENDIF
ENDWHILE

its in exactly that format sorry cause I'm nto THAT good at DarkBASIC yet...

well I'll check the help thing in it so i can see what the hell I'm doing hehe

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2009 09:39

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if (not file exist("imagename.png"))
    print "No such file exist."
    wait key
    end
endif

LOAD IMAGE "imagename.png",1
PASTE IMAGE 1,0,0

menuon = 1


WHILE menuon = 1
	IF SPACEKEY() = 1
	   CLS
	   menuon = 0
        ENDIF
ENDWHILE

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2009 10:02

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You need to include the file into the project, by going to the media tab, on the default editor it is to the bottom right, just click brose and select the include media box

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2009 10:10

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oh and veron is right, it wont load gifs, convert it to another format for it to work maby png/jpeg?

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2009 14:08 Edited at: 22nd Dec 2009 14:08

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You don't need to do the whole media include thing like Zarok said, it just needs to be in the same folder as the .DBA file.

To load an image, the code LOAD IMAGE imagename",1 that someone else told you to use was basically pseudocode, you might have taken it literally. The correct way would be:

LOAD IMAGE "yourimage.jpg",1

Change yourimage to the name of the image, and .jpg to the format of the image (for example, .png or .bmp)

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2009 14:10

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i few typos >_< but i asumed that he would have noticed them =/

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2009 15:11

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copy and paste this to DBP editor;

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SET DISPLAY MODE 800,600,32
SYNC ON : SYNC RATE 60 : SYNC
BACKDROP OFF : HIDE MOUSE

time=TIMER() `store the time

DO

   GOSUB start_screen

   tick = (TIMER()-time)/1000

   IF tick = 1 `show a one sec black screen/if you want you can remove this
      PASTE IMAGE 1,0,0 `then paste the image
   ENDIF

   IF tick = 10 `right after 10 sec exit the programe
      DELETE IMAGE 1 `delet the image 1, so that you can come back again
      EXIT `exit the programe
   ENDIF

   IF KEYSTATE(16)=1 `if you press 'Q' key before 10 sec the programe will exit
      DELETE IMAGE 1 `to come back
      EXIT `exit the programe
   ENDIF

SYNC
LOOP
END

start_screen:
LOAD IMAGE "intro.jpg",1,1 `change it with your own image file
RETURN

And learn TDK's tutorial. That will help you to get what you want more than this code.

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2009 15:53 Edited at: 22nd Dec 2009 15:53

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B++, try not to give out code that doesn't work and will just confuse him. That code loads an image in the loop.

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Sherikanman

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Posted: 23rd Dec 2009 00:09

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Heh thanks veron... and yeah that code didn't work.. but thanks for helping.. alot of answers in onle 10 hours...

i really like this forum..people are nice

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Sherikanman

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Posted: 23rd Dec 2009 00:18

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OH MAH GAH i got it working.. thanks Zarok and Veron..i can get it working now!!

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if (not file exist("media\Background.bmp"))
    print "No such file exist."
    wait key
    end
endif

LOAD IMAGE "media\Background.bmp",1
PASTE IMAGE 1,0,0

menuon = 1


WHILE menuon = 1
        IF SPACEKEY() = 1
           CLS
           menuon = 0
        ENDIF
ENDWHILE

got it..and it works with my file...

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Posted: 23rd Dec 2009 06:08

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Well done, glad that it's working for you!

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No problem! We got there in the end ^_^

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