Rise of the Triad-style Message Boxes

[AFADoomer]

This ZScript message box replacement implements Rise of the Triad-style messages that replace the existing on-screen text/prompts.
- Quit messages have matching icons, messages, and exit sounds that play when you select 'yes' (as seen in screenshot)
- Notification messages (e.g, choosing 'Save Game' when you're not in a level) show an exclamation point icon
- Prompt messages (e.g, Do you want to save over this game?) show a question mark icon and the yes/no prompt

All of the resources included here are pulled directly from ROTT... This is mostly a proof of concept, and there are a couple of things that are more hackily done than I'd like, but it works with every IWAD and mod that I tested it with.

Known Issues: The included exit sounds sometimes won't play fully, because the engine is hard-coded to wait for 3 seconds (105 tics) for the sound to play before actually quitting; some of the extracted ROTT sounds in the archive are 4 and 5 seconds long.

You can download the file here (155 KB) or on GitHub.

[ramon.dexter]

Hi, looks like that something has changed in zscript v3.3, it doesn't work with it anymore.

[Drake Raider]

If this gets fixed in future versions it would be fantastic to see a Doom themed version of these be made. With the doom quit messages and doom graphics/custom graphics

[ramon.dexter]

darkRaider: now it works correctly, afadoomer fixed it.

[LadiesMan217]

Is there a way to change the messages and such?

[AFADoomer]

Yes, they are defined in the language lump/file.

[Enjay]

Thanks to this thread being bumped, I remembered about this mod and have started using it as a base for my own quit message mod.
There is no way I could have some up with this myself, but changing it to suit my needs is certainly doable.
Thank you.

[Enjay]

With the latest GZDoom git builds (current gzdoom-x64-g4.15pre-566-g65cfb976f) the game cannot start with this mod loaded. It always gives this message:

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GScript error, "QuitMessages.pk7:zscript.txt" line 209:
GToo many arguments in call to CallHandler

Execution could not continue.
1 errors while parsing scripts

Line 209 merely says:

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			if (res) 
			{
				if (!(activatesnd == "")) { S_Sound(activatesnd, CHAN_VOICE | CHAN_UI, snd_menuvolume, ATTN_NONE); }
				CallHandler(Handler);  //it's this one - Enjay
			}

[AFADoomer]

Thanks for the note!

I've uploaded a fixed version (CallHandler no longer takes an argument, so just removed 'Handler' on the line you noted) and I've also pushed this as a repo on my GitHub site.

[Enjay]

Cool, thanks for the quick fix.

Just to avoid confusion for anyone downloading this: the fixed version works with the latest Git builds, but it will not work with the latest official release (4.14.2) which still expects the parameter:

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Script error, "QuitMessages.pk3:zscript.zsc" line 209:
Insufficient arguments in call to CallHandler