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Started by six dollar May 29, 2009 01:37 AM

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six dollar

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May 29, 2009 01:37 AM

I want to give my games main menu a flash type of theme, Very Dynamic. How would I go about doing this? Would I have to make the main menu in D3D or is it possible to make the menu in flash and then import it into the c++ program?

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SiS-Shadowman

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May 29, 2009 08:12 AM

Well, it should be possible, as your browser is just another (probably c++) application that uses the flash plugin to display videos / whatever. However I would write my own GUI system, as it is a great learning experience. I wrote mine 3 years ago and I plan on rewriting it, because of the stuff I learned from it.

I'm not sure if there are GUIs to use for D3D (besides the one from the SDK), but I've seen some for OpenGl.

Gamedev-Journal

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May 29, 2009 08:50 AM

It hasn't been updated in a while, but you could try gameswf to embed flash in your program.

50p

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May 29, 2009 09:11 PM

Scaleform.com is also great SDK for using flash movies in games (it was used in Crysis too) but it's not free.

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