[Waraddict]

Okay, here's the thing, I have a static main menu, no shellmap, just an image and I want to have background music playing, I was thinking I could replace the menu appearance sound with a track but Im not sure if I can get that looping, haven't tried yet, I would like to keep my options open though and hear a few suggestions.

[CodeCat]

I'm trying to make this work too, but I don't know how either. Apparently you need a map to do it. So somehow you should make a map that displays the image. Problem is that it defeats the whole purpose of not having a shellmap in the first place...

[Boomerang_Python]

well try having a shell map with nothing on it that just plays the music. And have a Picture to cover it all.

[Waraddict]

thing is then, the menu won't appear until you move your mouse...

I am still amazed how remarkably limited the Generals Engine is....

[Boomerang_Python]

Hmmm, there probably is some way to make it show all the time. Blitz2 has something like this, no?

[CodeCat]

It's not the engine, it's the implementation that's messed up. If we only had some more INI codes and stuff we could do a lot more.

[Waraddict]

Anyone know where the sounds for interacting with the mainmenu are? can't find them anywhere....

[Boomerang_Python]

you mean the 'beep' sound when you click the buttons and stuff?
They're in the SoundEffects.ini
and you put the replacement sound files in ...Data/Audio/Sounds/

[Vanguard]

Create an ini object that uses a Square model with an image as a skin, then go to World Builder and place that object in the middle of the map, then save the new map as ShellMapMD.map in a folder in the Zero Hour Main Directory called Maps.

[sc4freak]

But doesn't that defeat the purpose of not having a shellmap?