In the process of creating a custom menu I found that positioning things precisely is rather difficult and I'm curious to how this behavior works.
For example in my experiment I placed a graphic "mtablenu" at (0,0) via the menudef lump thinking it would appear in the top left corner and instead it appeared originating at (32,128) as though there is some sort of automatic offset. I then tried setting the graphic to be at (-32,0) and it appeared almost halfway off the left side of the screen. Far more than 32 pixels to the left!
I read through the wiki carefully (I believe) but didn't notice any explanation of this behavior. Any insight would be appreciated. Also, I apologize in advance if I posted in the wrong section of the forum.
MENUDEF- Positioning elements precisely.
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mustycheese
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Re: MENUDEF- Positioning elements precisely.
I probably should give more information about how I have "mtablenu" set up.
Slade is used as the primary editor, "mtablenu" has no addtional offset applied to the graphic lump. The lump's own origin is 0,0.
in MENUDEF:
staticpatch 0, 0, "mtablenu"
*without any prior "position" elements
in TEXTURES:
graphic "mtablenu", 176, 251 {
patch "mtablenu, 0, 0
xscale 3
yscale 3
}
*scaled to 3 or else it appears far too large.
Slade is used as the primary editor, "mtablenu" has no addtional offset applied to the graphic lump. The lump's own origin is 0,0.
in MENUDEF:
staticpatch 0, 0, "mtablenu"
*without any prior "position" elements
in TEXTURES:
graphic "mtablenu", 176, 251 {
patch "mtablenu, 0, 0
xscale 3
yscale 3
}
*scaled to 3 or else it appears far too large.