Save Empire Earth

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2010 4:17 am**

Was wondering if anyone has/knows of a way to skip the online multiplayer when it comes up, so that when you click multiplayer it takes you straight to the 'other multiplayer section'.

Also to ghost, i was wondering what/how many cfg's you modified to remove the tile effect, banner bars etc.

Thanks.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:11 pm**

I don't think you can make it skip directly to that screen because the entry point (when you're on the main menu and you click Multiplayer) is hard-coded to show the login screen, and I don't think that can be changed.

As for my lobby mods, I know I've made quite a few changes. They're only in a few files though:

RootScreen.cfg
LanScreen.cfg
Images\bkg_german.jpg
Images\main_menu_compilation.jpg
Images\MainBackgroundTile.jpg
Skin\Buttons.png
Skin\MenuButtons.png

main_menu_compliation.jpg and MainBackgroundTile.jpg are the same image for me, at 1024x768. bkg_german.jpg is the same image as MainBackgroundTile.jpg but it is cropped slightly so that it seemlessly sits on top of the tiled background.

Source code for my RootScreen.cfg and LanScreen.cfg:

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SetResource: RootScreen


RectangleComponent3D GameLogoFrame
{
	Up: false
	Thickness: 1
	SetVisible: false
}

ImageTextButton GameLogo
{
	NormalImage: @GameLogo
	DefaultCursor: Predefined, Hand
	BrowseLocation: @TitleHomeURL
}

Component TopFrame // for calulation only
{
	SizeAtLeast: 0,parent.GameLogo.height + 4
	SizeAtLeast: 0,parent.TabCtrl._ContainerLayout.top + 4
}

ImageTextButton SierraLogo
{
	NormalImage: @SierraLogo
	DefaultCursor: Predefined, Hand
	BrowseLocation: "http://www.sierra.com"
}

RectangleComponent3D LowerBannerFrame
{
	Up: false
	Thickness: 1
}

CrossPromotionButton LowerBanner
{
	DefaultCursor: Predefined, Hand
	DefaultImage: @DefaultBanner
	DefaultBrowse: @DefaultBannerURL
}

WONButton BackButton
{
	Text: @Logout
	TextColor: $PlayNowColor$
	SetDesiredWidth: 0
	SizeAtLeast: 90,40
	ControlId: @ID_Logout
}

MSSeperator LowerDivider
{
	Height: 10
}

NewLayoutPoint: LowerLayoutPoint


Layout: BackButton, SameRight SameTop, this, -388, 2
//Layout: GameLogo, SameRight SameTop, this, -5, 4
//Layout: GameLogoFrame, SameLeft SameTop SameSize, GameLogo, -1,-1,2,2

//Layout: LowerBannerFrame, SameSize, LowerBanner, 0,0,2,2
//Layout: LowerBannerFrame, SameBottom, this, 0, -4
HorzCenterLayout: this
//, LowerBannerFrame
//Layout: LowerBanner, SameLeft SameTop, LowerBannerFrame, 1,1

//Layout: LowerDivider, Above, LowerBannerFrame
//Layout: LowerDivider, SameWidth, this
//Layout: SierraLogo, SameLeft, this, 11

//VertCenterLayout: LowerBannerFrame, SierraLogo
//VertCenterLayout: LowerBannerFrame

Layout: TabCtrl, SameLeft GrowToRight, this, 4,0,-4
//Modify: TabCtrl, Top, parent.TopFrame.Bottom - _ContainerLayout.top + 2
Layout: TabCtrl, GrowToTop, LowerLayoutPoint

Add: TabCtrl, BackButton
//Add: GameLogoFrame, GameLogo
//Add: LowerDivider, SierraLogo, LowerBannerFrame, LowerBanner

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ImageComponent Back 
{
	Image: @TiledBackground
	Tile: true
}

Layout: Back,SameSize,this
Add: Back

Container LanTab
{
	IncludeFile: MainLanTab.cfg
}

GameStagingCtrl GameTab
{
	IncludeFile: GameStagingCtrl.cfg
}

DirectConnectCtrl DirectConnectTab
{
	IncludeFile: DirectConnectCtrl.cfg
}

LanOptionsCtrl OptionsTab
{
	IncludeFile: LanOptions.cfg
}
MapComponent: OptionsTab.CommonOptionsFrame.CommonOptions.CrossPromotionCheck,CrossPromotionCheck
MapComponent: OptionsTab.CommonOptionsFrame.CommonOptions.LobbySoundEffectsCheck,LobbySoundEffectsCheck
MapComponent: OptionsTab.CommonOptionsFrame.CommonOptions.ChatSoundEffectsCheck,ChatSoundEffectsCheck
MapComponent: OptionsTab.CommonOptionsFrame.CommonOptions.StagingSoundEffectsCheck,StagingSoundEffectsCheck
MapComponent: OptionsTab.CommonOptionsFrame.CommonOptions.LobbyMusicCheck,LobbyMusicCheck
MapComponent: OptionsTab.CommonOptionsFrame.CommonOptions.ShowConfirmationsCheck,ShowConfirmationsCheck

GameBrowserCtrl HelpTab
{
	IncludeFile: GameBrowserCtrl.cfg
	HomeLocation: "help/HelpRoot.html"
}

WONTabCtrl TabCtrl
{
	//TabBarOverlap: 1
	//TabOverlap: 5
	//TabVertOffset: 8
	//TabHorzOffset: 2

	GroupDefine TabButtonDef
	{
		SizeAtLeast: 90,40
		Transparent: true
	}

	WONTabButton t1 { Text: @Lan; IncludeGroup: TabButtonDef; Font: @MediumFont }
	WONTabButton t2 { Wrap: true; Text: @DirectConnect; IncludeGroup: TabButtonDef; Font: @MediumFont }
	WONTabButton t3 { Text: @Game; IncludeGroup: TabButtonDef; Font: @MediumFont }
	WONTabButton t4 { Text: @Options; IncludeGroup: TabButtonDef; Font: @MediumFont }
	WONTabButton t5 { Text: @Help; IncludeGroup: TabButtonDef; Font: @MediumFont }

	AddTab: t1,parent.LanTab
	AddTab: t2,parent.DirectConnectTab
	AddTab: t3,parent.GameTab
	AddTab: t4,parent.OptionsTab
	AddTab: t5,parent.HelpTab
}

IncludeFile: RootScreen.cfg

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:39 pm**

thanks for the code ghost. ive been messing around with it a little, trying to get background the same first though, it likes to move off the side for some reason, is this what you were talking about in regards to cropping the image?

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/1585/sdfsdfm.jpg

Posted: **Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:54 pm**

Yeah that's what I meant. The one on the inside is smaller and needs to be a cropped portion of the outside image, and the crop has to be offset so that it lines up properly.

Just use a 1024x768 image on the outside, then crop it to the size of 1015x724 for the inside. The offset from the right will be 3 or 4 pixels and the offset from the top will depend on how big the top bar is (where the tabs are)

Posted: **Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:29 pm**

Bit of a late reply but thanks for all your help ghost

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