Findings/thoughts of changing menu stuff and beyond.
Oh boy I think I’ve just realized how annoying the menu maybe to change now…as just as I start to think I’ve gotten an understanding…nope more pops up or blocks my way of fully testing it all out. However after spending it seems 4+ hours on this exploration…I honestly feel that this is a ton of work probably going to cost me 3 days of all-nighters worth of work at least to get just that done. (30 hours minimum then which is nearly double what I’ve already invested to this mod overall).
Which can then allow me to start exploring of how to get the menu system to save to a file, call from said file, have difficulty presets, find out if it’s possible to change various things from the menu. So when I thought this was going to be a pain possibly to sort out…I was right and wish I wasn’t…there isn’t any half measuring it too apart from the internal window size I suspect since although that could be done with saving and reading from a file…I wouldn’t have to worry about it breaking other bits of the game like calling for search detection ranges to find that they are broken.
Honestly if I knew about all of this before making the changes and everything with the mod then…errrhhh actually no I still wouldn’t be wanting to spend time doing this. As honestly doing this this feels like I’m getting no benefit from it unlike before of where I agreed and wanted all these changes to difficulty stuff. So as I’ve been signposting via the change-log what changes or does what it just seems better to me to just provide 3 different versions with the different internal window size being the differences and let those who want this enemy or that one have this bit of them tweaked do it themselves.
So I think the summary of what I’m trying to say is that if I do go for doing the menu and thus figuring out how to save/read to a file along with making sure all enemies variables/stats are adjustable, it then turns into a job as I’m then no longer doing it for myself and it’s no small or short task to do when I have many other project I wish to do (that I have an vested interest in). I would only be okay with continuing forward if I was to get something out of it especially since my time required estimate for just the menu’s alone is nearly the same as what I’ve already put in. I’m not sure what I’m wanting to get in return yet nor what’s right to even ask for and how to do it, so I’ll post this for now and think to myself about this for a while…if you want to send me an DM/PM about this then please do.
Oh but there will be one more update to the mod I’ll be putting out which I’ve nearly completed and I have an idea about another update afterwards that seems simple currently (if learning art isn’t hard). Just doing an update in regards to what I said in the rest of this post is what’s in question just to the magnitude and investment being so massive with myself having no personal interest/gain/enjoyment from it at time of writing.