Pausing game

[aspie]

Currently my scoreboard covers the entire game window with an opaque pattern, is there a way to pause the game when the player presses F1 and then resumes when they press it again?

 

[2COOL4-U]

You've got this function in PlayerPawn

exec function Pause()
{
	if ( bShowMenu )
		return;
	if( !SetPause(Level.Pauser=="") )
		ClientMessage(NoPauseMessage);
}

Perhaps you could add this to your PostRender function in the scoreboard

 if (Level.Pauser == "")
  PlayerPawn(Owner).Pause();

 

[Euphoric Beaver]

Would this work online?

 

[2COOL4-U]

No as the game is not pausable so you need to check if it's an online game, if it is. Don't pause otherwise the player will get tons of Can't pause game messages

It might work if you're logged in as an admin tho. But still that would be anoying. So only enable this feature for Single Player

 

[aspie]

Yeah the game is SP, thanks for the help.

 

[2COOL4-U]

I am working on a SP mod too

 

[aspie]

Mines just to support map ideas that really didn't fit into the assault style of team play, yours?

 

[2COOL4-U]

Working on a SP version of a popular mod(Dunno if I can say which one). But it included enemies with own models and AI.

I really wish someone documented the SP AI a bit more

 

[aspie]

My sig sort of gives away the idea of my mod.

 

[2COOL4-U]

mm nice

 

[aspie]

Got it to work in a slightly different way. Whenever it the player presses the pause button a flag in their player is set ( bViewingStats) then when the HUD draws it calls a function which displays the stats (if the bool is true ). This also means that if I make it multiplayer later on, I can make the player invincible while viewing the stats.

 

[2COOL4-U]

that would be a very bad idea, imagine players quickly pressing F1 if they see rockets coming their way :/

 

[aspie]

damn, well i can modify it a bit so that it pauses the entire game, it will always be a team of players vs bots.

 

[2COOL4-U]

ahh, I am doing that for Defence Alliance