How to overwrite pause screen?

[AlanLive2020]

Hi. I'm just experimenting a few things for entertainment and I wanted to know if it's possible to replace the pause screen or disable it to add a custom menu.

This is less important, but it is also possible to restart the stage without waiting for the death animation to end?

[deice]

Hi. I'm just experimenting a few things for entertainment and I wanted to know if it's possible to replace the pause screen or disable it to add a custom menu.

yes. the simplest way to do it is to check whether the game has been paused outside of a lua script (Misc.isPaused(), Misc.isPausedByLua()) and then unpause it before pausing it yourself and then handling the menu logic in a lua script.
if you want a simple example, there's this script.

This is less important, but it is also possible to restart the stage without waiting for the death animation to end?

yes, but the complexity depends on what exactly you mean by that. you can just instantly reload the entire level as soon as the player dies which isn't very hard to do. however, if you don't want the little loading screen to happen every single time, you need something more complex like rooms. however, this script has an absolute myriad of tiny issues and bugs that sneak in as a consequence of using it, so i don't recommend it unless you know how to account for those edge cases and fix them in your own code.

[AlanLive2020]

Hi. I'm just experimenting a few things for entertainment and I wanted to know if it's possible to replace the pause screen or disable it to add a custom menu.

yes. the simplest way to do it is to check whether the game has been paused outside of a lua script (Misc.isPaused(), Misc.isPausedByLua()) and then unpause it before pausing it yourself and then handling the menu logic in a lua script.
if you want a simple example, there's this script.

This is less important, but it is also possible to restart the stage without waiting for the death animation to end?

yes, but the complexity depends on what exactly you mean by that. you can just instantly reload the entire level as soon as the player dies which isn't very hard to do. however, if you don't want the little loading screen to happen every single time, you need something more complex like rooms. however, this script has an absolute myriad of tiny issues and bugs that sneak in as a consequence of using it, so i don't recommend it unless you know how to account for those edge cases and fix them in your own code.

Thank you. I'll take note of that.

Btw i mean like a way to press a button to skip the death animation for less waiting on each death.

[AlanLive2020]

So apparently the pause function via lua just softlocks the game for some reason, it won't read any inputs

I tried to do this:

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if player.rawKeys.pause and pause == true then
    pause = false
end
if menuOpen == true then
    Misc.pause(false)
    if menuOpen == true and player.rawKeys.pause and pause == true then
        menuOpen = false
    end
end
if menuOpen == false then
    Misc.unpause()
end
end
function onDraw()
if menuOpen == true then
    Graphics.drawScreen{color = Color.black.. 0.75,priority = 0}
end
end
function onPause(evt)
menuOpen = true
Misc.pause(false)
pause = true
evt.cancelled = true;
end

The pause variable is used so that the menu won't open and close every frame while the button is held

[Emral]

What function is this in? Functions like onTick and onTickEnd don't run while paused by design.

Here is what I usually do:

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local isPaused = false

function onPause(e)
	e.cancelled = true -- cancel default measures of pausing
end

function onInputUpdate()
	if player.keys.paused == KEYS_PRESSED then
		if isPaused then
			Misc.unpause()
		else
			Misc.pause()
		end
	end
	if isPaused then
		-- handle input
	end
end

function onDraw()
	if isPaused then
		-- draw pause menu
	end
end

[AlanLive2020]

What function is this in? Functions like onTick and onTickEnd don't run while paused by design.

Here is what I usually do:

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local isPaused = false

function onPause(e)
	e.cancelled = true -- cancel default measures of pausing
end

function onInputUpdate()
	if player.keys.paused == KEYS_PRESSED then
		if isPaused then
			Misc.unpause()
		else
			Misc.pause()
		end
	end
	if isPaused then
		-- handle input
	end
end

function onDraw()
	if isPaused then
		-- draw pause menu
	end
end

Thanks. I tried using onDraw and it also didn't work (maybe i did something wrong). I'm guessing game ticks only run when the game is unpaused. I'm just trying to see if i can make a menu that displays star coins in levels.

[Emral]

Thanks. I tried using onDraw and it also didn't work. I'm guessing game ticks only run when the game is unpaused.

onDraw will work while paused. If it didn't, background objects and sizables would disappear when pausing :p
onTick and onTickEnd specifically don't run while paused, as described in the docs.
https://docs.codehaus.moe/#/reference/l ... ick-events

[AlanLive2020]

Thanks. I tried using onDraw and it also didn't work. I'm guessing game ticks only run when the game is unpaused.

onDraw will work while paused. If it didn't, background objects and sizables would disappear when pausing :p
onTick and onTickEnd specifically don't run while paused, as described in the docs.
https://docs.codehaus.moe/#/reference/l ... ick-events

Still softlocks

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local cooldown = 60 -- goes down by 1 each tick
function onInputUpdate()
	if player.keys.pause == KEYS_PRESSED then
		if isPaused == true and cooldown <= 0 then
			Misc.unpause()
        end
		if isPaused == false and cooldown <= 0 then
        Misc.pause(false)
		end
	end
	if isPaused == true then
		
	end
end

function onDraw()
	if isPaused == true then
        Text.print("Menu", 300, 250)
    Graphics.drawScreen{color = Color.black.. 0.75,priority = 0}
    end
end
function onPause(e)
	e.cancelled = true
end

[Hoeloe]

A few things:

1) There's no reason to specifically detect the pause key being pressed, you can just use the onPause function you're already accessing for that.
2) == true is almost never useful, you can just do if isPaused then, which is the preferred method.
3) You're never actually decrementing your cooldown variable, so it's never less than zero.

This code would work better:

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local cooldown = 60
local isPaused = false

function onInputUpdate()
	if cooldown > 0 then
		cooldown = cooldown -1 
	end
end

function onPause(e)
	e.cancelled = true
	
	if cooldown <= 0 then
		if isPaused then
			Misc.unpause()
		else
			Misc.pause()
		end
		cooldown = 60
	end
end

function onDraw()
	if isPaused then
		Graphics.drawScreen{color = Color.black.. 0.75,priority = 0}
		Text.printWP("Menu", 300, 250, 0)
	end
end

[Emral]

I tend to use onInputUpdate as I have gotten inconsistent results in onPause, though I don't recall the specifics unfortunately. If that indeed works better, then that's good to know.