Ignore or reset some variables in SetRestartPoint / RestartGame

[guga2112]

Hi all,
I have a game that, after ending, gets back to the main menu. Since I'm lazy, I just called SetRestartPoint when entering the menu room the first time, and RestartGame when the ending cutscene is over. It works like a charm, every variable is back to the initial state.

The problem is that this resets also every in-game setting to the default one. Since it's just really four things (music and sound volume, text speed, text skip), is there a way of avoiding that these are reset when calling RestartGame?

[Crimson Wizard]

The problem is that this resets also every in-game setting to the default one. Since it's just really four things (music and sound volume, text speed, text skip), is there a way of avoiding that these are reset when calling RestartGame?

Write them into a custom file and read after restore game. This will solve loosing these options when player loads a regular save too.

See File functions in the manual, it's pretty simple to use if you only need to save/load few ints.

Reading these values could be done in on_event function, event being eEventRestoreGame.

Example, in which you call your custom LoadGame function to load game instead of RestoreGameSlot directly.

Code: ags

void LoadGame(int slot)
{
     // Save custom config
     File* f = File.Open("$SAVEGAMEDIR$/config.dat", eFileWrite);
     f.WriteInt(music_vol);
     f.WriteInt(sound_vol);
     // etc...
     f.Close();

     RestoreGameSlot(slot); // load game now
}

void AfterLoadGame()
{
     File* f = File.Open("$SAVEGAMEDIR$/config.dat", eFileRead);
     music_vol = f.ReadInt();
     sound_vol = f.ReadInt();
     // etc...
     f.Close();

     // Apply sliders, volume and so on
}

function on_event (EventType event, int data)
{
     if (event == eEventRestoreGame)
     {
          AfterLoadGame();
     }
}