I had started to make a mod about a week before getting JO. This mod going tobe a fortress mod. Though if i am going to continue it, it will be with JO. Anyway I though I would relase to the development community what i had done, because of two working features that i think have yet to be done,correct me if i am wrong. The features are:

In game GUI menus - The feature give you in-game GUI menus in which the selections are made with the weapon keys. It looks kind of like CS or TFC, though their menus look better because i have close to no skill with GFX and they where made in MS Paint :P.

Beacon CTF - This flavor of CTF allows you to have dynamic CTF games on normally deathmatch levels. It works by each team placeing a 'Flag Beacon'(through the GUI Menu system) When both flag beacons are placed the games begins. Flags appear over the Flag Beacons. It then works like normal CTF. Both teams fight to capture the other's flag. When a flag is captured it then returns back to its flag beacon!

It is open source, meaning not gobbed, and any one can take ideas code or anything else they like from it, just try to give me some credit. I didn't have time to make a readme, but i assumed we're all smart ppl here and didn't need one. The mod was orignally made for MotS. But the features like the BCTF and GUI menu system can be easily ported over.
The file for it is here http://geoman59.0catch.com/files.html

ps not all the features that may appeare in the menu are done...have fun!

[This message has been edited by geoman59 (edited April 01, 2002).]

Burrie and I talked about using GUI menus for possible RPG levels, but nothing ever came of it. SavageX actually made some and they featured in SS3.. nevertheless, good job!

Hmm... The download link didn't work for me.

I wrote a GUI that allows you to use the mouse to select icons that appear on the screen. And this way, you only have to spare one hotkey. I used this system in the Host Commander patch that's at my website.

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try this link http://geoman59.0catch.com/files/gui_menus.zip
wow, i d/l it and that is pretty cool. I never though of that... urs looks better then mine, but i didn't spend any time on the gfx. BTW mine only uses one hotkey too because you use the weapon selection keys to select different menu items(only 1 to 7 though because that is all i had room for ).
ps. my file also contains beacon capture the flag which is a customizable CTF patch.
this file is not a mod or a patch it is simply a reference that can have code taken as long as credit is given where credit is due enjoy!

Hey SaberMaster, do you mind if I use some of your UI code for a mod?