customizing the main menu animation and music

[ShiraiJunichi]

I would like to play music and perform some animations when the game enters the main menu. Before I was able to do the following:

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label main_menu:
   # code to play music and perform animations
jump _library_main_menu

That jump statement no longer works. And I think jumping to the main menu created a new scene, which replaces any images/animations currently displayed with the main menu background. How can I edit the menu so animations will be displayed until the user selects an option?

[JQuartz]

How can I edit the menu so animations will be displayed until the user selects an option?

Just put the animation in the main_menu like so:

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label main_menu:
    python:
        ui.image(Animation("image1.png",0.25, "image2.png",.25, "image3.png",0.25))
        ui.textbutton("Start", ui.jumpsoutofcontext("start"),xalign=1.0)
        ui.interact()

[ShiraiJunichi]

Thanks. Though that code requires that you place the buttons and everything yourself. That's probably necessary when the animation must continue to play while waiting for the user- but the particular animation I'm doing only animates before the user interaction.
So, I found that replacing "_library_main_menu" with "main_menu_screen" seems to work.

[Aang]

But how can we put some music during the main menu?

[Aleema]

Thanks. Though that code requires that you place the buttons and everything yourself. That's probably necessary when the animation must continue to play while waiting for the user- but the particular animation I'm doing only animates before the user interaction.
So, I found that replacing "_library_main_menu" with "main_menu_screen" seems to work.

Do you mean, like a splash page or intro animation? There are scripts for that in the Cookbook; may save you some time.
And yes, making stuff look good requires some hard work, silly. :p

But how can we put some music during the main menu?

Look for a line of text commented out in your options.rpy file. Uncomment it and put in the location of your music track.

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 ## Music that is played while the user is at the main menu.
#config.main_menu_music = ""