LoadingScreenScripts
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Overview
The Empires loading screen gets its data from a single script file, namely emp_map_loading_data.txt, which can be found in the 'scripts' folder.
Structure
Each subkey under "MapLoadingData" is either the name of an Empires map, or "generic". Generic is a special case, which contains data that can be shown during any map load. When you define map-specific data, the game will randomly select between the map-specific data and the generic data.
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Note More specifically, both music and HTML will only be loaded when the "connect" console command is issued. You can quickly test your music or HTML ingame by typing 'connect 127.0.0.1'. |
Kinds of data
Each subkey contains two more subkeys: "html" and "music". The data under both of these subkeys is randomly selected.
music
The music subkey contains a list of music URLs (at the moment mp3's, but it can play anything that FMOD Ex supports). It has full access to the 'sound' folder. A single song will play when connecting to a server.
html
The html subkey contains a list of HTML URLs that are loaded when connecting to a server.
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Warning: Do not use animations or animated images on an HTML file for the loading screen. When it is actually connecting to a server and loading all game data, the framerate will drop to a crawl and any animations will stop functioning. |
Extra HTML parameters
The game also provides a querystring to each HTML file containing the following fields, whose values it attempts to get from the server it is connecting to:
- map (default: "none")
- players (default: "0")
- maxplayers (default: "0")
- ispassworded (default: "0")
- issecure (default: "0")