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[xportmedia]

Hi there

Rather than using the wintermute `esc` menu, I have created a scene for loading, saving, etc.  The scene does not use any window, I have attached scripts to sprite entities, this is all fine, but when I save or load a game in this manner I get an error message.  As I am also saving from a menu.scene, I need to save a thumbnail from the previous scene.  Any chance that I can do this?

At the moment I am just calling up the save and load window using scripts within my menu scene.  Do I have to bite the bullet and adapt the wintermute menu window?

Thanks

Paul

[Akatosh]

May we see the error that appears on the log ? Maybe It can help to identify the error.

Regarding the thumbnail preview of the previous scene. My best bet would be each time you load the menu.scene, it would save a temp image of the scene before loading the actual menu scene.

Hope It helped

[xportmedia]

Hi there

Here are the error logs I am getting when trying to save or load.  This is just the standard Wintermute save and load window, but accessed from a script rather than the original Menu window.

23:11:48:  CBSprite::LoadFile failed for file 'savegame:0'
23:12:03:  CBSprite::LoadFile failed for file 'savegame:1'
23:12:09:  Saving game 'C:\Users\Paul\Saved Games\Night_Train_Test_1\save001.dsv'...
23:12:11:  Runtime error. Script 'scenes\menu\scr\save.script', line 13
23:12:11:    Call to undefined method 'Close'. Ignored.

Sorry to sound really stupid?  But how would I save a previous scene as an image to use attach to a save game file?

Thanks for your help.

[metamorphium]

you shouldn't access methods of window. Rather you should simply call Game.SaveGame by yourself. This way you're breaking the logic of already different solution.

[Akatosh]

I don't know how you did it in your game, but let's say you have something like this on game.script:

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on "Keypress"
{
  // on Esc or F1 key
  if(Keyboard.KeyCode==VK_ESCAPE || Keyboard.KeyCode==VK_F1)
  {
    // takes a screenshot and loads the menu.scene
    Game.StoreSaveThumbnail();
    Game.ChangeScene("scenes\menu\menu.scene");
  }
}

I don't have access to Windows at this moment, so I can't guarantee that works. But It should be something like that. Try checking this http://docs.dead-code.org/wme/generated/scripting_ref_game.html.

[xportmedia]

Will give it a go!

Thanks for such a quick reply