Arma 3: Main Menu

Arma 3 Apex introduces new main menu.

World Scene

World scene is a scenario shown behind main menu when a specific terrain is loaded. If you're playing on Altis and leave to main menu, Altis scene will be used.

The scene is configured with the terrain and is responsibility of a terrain creator.

Guidelines

The scene should meet following criteria:

• High FPS is important! Lower performance makes navigating the menu uncomfortable.
  • Low view distance (~200 m) is recommended.
  • Camera looking down or towards sloped terrain, so the view distance is not as apparent.
• All content of the scenario should be placed in the Intro phase.
• Camera is static, all the movement should be in the scene (e.g., vegetation in the wind, sea, wildlife, etc.)
  • Avoid following settings (not mandatory, it may work in some cases):
    • Unlit night scenes (dark menus on dark scene don't look well).
    • Bad weather (hides shadows).
  • The scene should work on 16:9 screen. Multiple monitors doesn't need to be considered, as the main menu shows a grey background there.

Configuration

class CfgWorlds
{
	// Class of your terrain
	class MyWorld
	{
		cutscenes[] = {"MyWorldScene"}; // Class names of used scenes. When more than one is present, the system will pick one randomly.
	};
};
class CfgMissions
{
	class Cutscenes
	{
		class MyWorldScene // Class referenced in 'cutscenes' property in CfgWorlds
		{
			directory = "\MyAddon\MyScene.MyWorld"; // Path to scenario with the scene
		};
	};
};

Spotlight

class RscStandardDisplay;
class RscDisplayMain: RscStandardDisplay
{
	class Spotlight
	{
		class CoopCampaign
		{
			text = "Coop Campaign"; // Text displayed on the square button, converted to upper-case
			picture = "\a3\Ui_f\Data\GUI\Rsc\RscDisplayMain\spotlight_1_apex_ca.paa"; // Square picture, ideally 512x512
			video = "\a3\Ui_f\Video\spotlight_1_Apex.ogv"; // Video played on mouse hover
			action = "ctrlactivate ((ctrlparent (_this select 0)) displayctrl 101);"; // Code called upon clicking, passed arguments are [<button:Control>]
			actionText = $STR_A3_RscDisplayMain_Spotlight_Play; // Text displayed in top left corner of on-hover white frame
			condition = "true"; // Condition for showing the spotlight
		};
		class AnotherCoopCampaign
		{
			text = "Another Coop Campaign";
			picture = "\a3\Ui_f\Data\GUI\Rsc\RscDisplayMain\spotlight_1_eastwind_ca.paa";
			action = "ctrlactivate ((ctrlparent (_this select 0)) displayctrl 149);";
			actionText = $STR_A3_RscDisplayMain_Spotlight_Play;
			condition = "isKeyActive 'FinishedCoopCampaign';";
		};
	};
};