ACS/DIALOG - Make message pausing gameplay 'till dismissed

[_bc]

Hello,

I'm currently thinking about having an image or a more discriptive hudMessage poping up whenever the player picks up items/weapons, in the vein of Metroid:

(For some reason I can't embed images.... well)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3xI6EbJUnfc/V ... _00021.png

Since those would block quite a bit of screen; I'd prefer to have them pause the game, and disappear and resume on a keystroke....

Since I'm not all to experienced with ACS I might simply miss a function or special.
Found this discussion: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=25729.

Or could I for example somehow launch a DIALOG from my script (something I can't figure out too), and use this a s a substitute somehow?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

[gwHero]

I doubt if this is possible with ACS;
however, it's not too difficult to create a very simple ZScript menu (inheriting from GenericMenu) which does not much more than showing a screen with a text;
menu's by default pause the game and are released with the ESC key.

[_bc]

ZScript Menu, allright, I'll have a look.
Thanks

[gwHero]

Good luck! A few hints:

The class that shows the message and/or image in it's most simple form only needs to override the Drawer() method;
this class can be instantiated with Menu.SetMenu("nameoftheclass").

[_bc]

Thanks