Nick Thomas
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This makes menus display more correctly, and also fixes trees and other objects on the main map, although it messes up bounds clipping (sigh).
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204 lines
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# *.mnu
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These files appear to be the UI definitions for Chaos Gate. Some relate to
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system menus, other to in-game menus. Their names are hardcoded into the
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`WH40K.exe` binary. Each has a `.obj` file associated with it.
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It's an ASCII-formatted text file with a 12-line header, followed by a number
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of descriptor records.
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Here's the top of `MainGame.mnu`:
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```
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MainGame.obj
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BACKGROUND COLOR 0..255..-1 trans : 0
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HYPERTEXT COLOR 0..255 : 120
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FONT TYPE 0..5 : 10
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wh40k_12
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basfnt12
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wh40k_47
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wh40k_12_red
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wh40k_12_blue
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wh40k_12_green
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wh40k_12_yellow
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NULL
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```
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The first line of the header is a `.obj` file containing sprites we want to
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display on-screen. We see entries further down have a `SPRITEID`, which must
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reference entries in that file.
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In `SaveGame.mnu`, we can see multiple `.obj` files can be referenced.
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There are then 3 lines that seem to be fixed descriptor names with values
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that vary. Is this font colour, perhaps? Unsure.
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Next is a variable-length list of font names, referencing files in the `Fonts`
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directory.
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Finally, there's a list of records that specify the menu itself. Truncated
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contents of `SaveGame.mnu`:
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```
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#rem..........Background
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MENUID : 1
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MENUTYPE : 0
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MOVEABLE : 0
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ACTIVE : 1
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SPRITEID : 0
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ACCELERATOR: 0
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DRAW TYPE : 0
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SHARE : -1
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X-CORD : -1
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Y-CORD : -1
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DESC :
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*
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#rem..........MAIN BACKGROUND
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MENUID : 2
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MENUTYPE : 45
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MOVEABLE : 0
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ACTIVE : 1
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SPRITEID : 0
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ACCELERATOR: 0
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DRAW TYPE : 0
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SHARE : -1
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X-CORD : -1
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Y-CORD : -1
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DESC :
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#rem.......... MAIN BACKGROUND
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SUBMENUID : 1
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SUBMENUTYPE: 31
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FONTTYPE : 20
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ACTIVE : 0
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SPRITEID : -1
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ACCELERATOR: 0
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DRAW TYPE : 0
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SHARE : 0
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SOUNDTYPE : 0
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DESC :
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*
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#rem..........Chat List Box Menu
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MENUID : 21
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MENUTYPE : 1
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MOVEABLE : 0
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ACTIVE : 1
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SPRITEID : 764
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ACCELERATOR: 0
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DRAW TYPE : 0
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SHARE : -1
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X-CORD : -1
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Y-CORD : -1
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DESC :
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[...]
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*
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~
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```
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We start processing these as soon as we see `MENUID`, I suppose. Each toplevel
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item is `*`-delimited, and the list is terminated with `~`.
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Each menu has a list of parameters:
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| Name | Examples | Purpose |
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|---------|----------|---------|
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| `MENUID`| `1`, `2`, `3` | Maybe linking between menus? |
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| `MENUTYPE` | `0`, `1`, `2`, `3`, `45`, `300` | ? |
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| `MOVEABLE` | `0` | Unimplemented functionality? |
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| `ACTIVE` | `0`, `1`, `1,0` | ? |
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| `SPRITEID` | `-1`, `0`, `123`, `16,-1,1` | Select from `.obj` file? |
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| `ACCELERATOR` | | ? |
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| `DRAW TYPE` | | ? |
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| `SHARE` | | ? |
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| `X-CORD` | `-1`, `0`, `200` | X coordinate to draw at |
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| `Y-CORD` | `-1`, `0`, `200` | Y coordinate to draw at |
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| `FONTTYPE` | | Choose a font from the above? |
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| `SOUNDTYPE` | | ? |
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| `DESC` | `CHARACTER SELECT`, `51005` | Text, or reference to `Data/USEng.dta` |
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Submenus also show a couple of unique values:
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| Name | Examples | Purpose |
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|---------------|---------------|---------------|
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| `SUBMENUID` | `1`, `2`, `3` | As `MENUID` |
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| `SUBMENUTYPE` | `0`, `1`, `2` | As `MENUTYPE` |
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It seems .mnu files can also include other files, which have the extension
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`.mni` (presumably for "Menu include"). Examples:
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```
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*
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$GenDialog.mni
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$GenLoad.mni
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```
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It looks like we just interpolate the named file into the text when we come
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across one of these lines.
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## (Sub)menu types
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The types seem to refer to different types of UI widget. Here's a list of unique
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values:
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| Value | Meaning |
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|-------|---------|
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| 0 | Background |
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| 1 | Logical menu grouping? |
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| 2 | ? |
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| 3 | Standard button? |
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| 30 | Equipment? |
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| 31 | "Character helmet" / "Slot" |
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| 40 | "X Line Y" |
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| 41 | "X Line Y" |
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| 45 | ? |
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| 45,10,11,9 | ? |
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| 45,11,12,10 | ? |
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| 45,14,15,13 | ? |
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| 45,17,18,16 | ? |
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| 45,3,4,2 | ? |
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| 45,5,6,4 | ? |
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| 45,6,7,5 | ? |
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| 45,7,8,6 | ? |
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| 45,8,9,7 | ? |
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| 45,9,10,8 | ? |
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| 50 | ? |
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| 60 | Other text to display? (`UltEquip.mnu`) |
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| 61 | Text to display |
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| 70 | Hypertext to display |
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| 91 | ? |
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| 100 | ? |
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| 110 | ? |
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| 120 | ? |
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| 200 | Drop-down button? |
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| 205 | Single list box item? |
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| 220 | Psyker power? |
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| 221 | Page? |
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| 228 | Big buttons in `Main.mnu` |
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| 232 | ? |
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| 233 | ? |
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| 300 | Pop-up dialog box |
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| 400,0,0,{8, 16} | ? |
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| 400,22,22,{2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 13, 16} | ? |
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| 400,30,-1,5 | ? |
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| 405,0,0,{8, 16} | ? |
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| 405,22,22,{2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 16} | ? |
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| 405,30,-1,5 | ? |
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## Positioning
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The X-CORD and Y-CORD values would seem to be related, to this, but they are
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universally set to 0 or -1.
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Far more important are the XOffset and YOffset values for each sprite in the
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associated .obj files. Taking these into account is enough to draw `Options.mnu`
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successfully, for instance:
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## Animation
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This seems to be done by choosing a different sprite to draw every N ticks. They
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are laid out sequentially, but I don't yet know how to animate them. It's likely
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to be the same approach as used for other obj files.
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