- Due to the amounts of screen this method takes up, the Stage Select may need to be moved to another, extra screen (like the Versus modes of SF2 on the SNES/PS1/Saturn)

3) And if a player decides he/she wants to select someone else from another game, they can maybe use the START button to exit the current character grid and go back to the game/category select to choose another game.

I don't think I explained my proposal clearly but this is a quick edit I put together of what I was suggesting:



That is just a skeleton layout- wasn't trying to make it look nice .

But yeah the coding for the grid would be something like this... (the titles could either be names using .fnt files or sprites in the system.sff)

  <-- I kinda got lazy but the categories are suppose to have different characters in each slot to demonstrate what I mean. Technically the grid could go on and on endlessly both vertically and horizontally... It could probably play on the name having an infinite capacity select in InfinityCat

The select screen would have a new parameter to show only a certain amount of the grid 4x2 or 5x2 or 2x10 on each side independently. This way you could have a large select without having the screen cluttered. 

Also for player 2 it would reverse the small portraits so it looks like they're facing each other.

There would have to be another parameter for sff sprite logos or a .fnt logo for each category like KOF, Guilty Gear, Street Fighter etc.

This would make it so that you have an infinite select because you could just keep adding more categories in the select and make the columns longer if you ran out of space in the category.

I think if there was a way to add delta values to the small portraits you could get the select screen to follow the icon selector. If the delta value was 0,0 I think it would do this. Also the window = 0,151,119,208 to hide the rest of the grid I guess. Maybe there's some other way to code it but this is all I can think of- hoping its possible though.

Also is a stage preview possible?



One more thing....

Would it be possible to run say an online server with an interactive stage hosted? So say multiple people could join in on that one stage? Or maybe code a chat room into the engine or make special stages to be used as chat rooms where people can walk around with a mugen character and maybe talk or fight with other people by using special commands on the keyboard.

I'm sure that would cause a lag even if there was a dedicated stage on a server for that so I would guess there could be a limit to how many people could be in a stage at once?

But yeah that would be cool if mugen became a little more MMORPG'ish if thats at all possible or even just a chat room where people could walk around and talk using mugen characters...

Sorry for the long post again

- You don't get to see the category/game list. This means the player has to 'blind select' or 'guess search' by moving a lot of spaces to the right or left (especially if it's a 2x10 grid) to find the desired category/game. A solution could be to have the player memorise the category pattern or look at the select.def, otherwise it'll be all guess work...

But in your select why are there 3 portraits I thought you could have 4 characters?

What I was hoping is that SakirSoft could make it like MVC. Say if I select a character it would skew their portrait- something like this:

but onces you pic a character you can then change the palette and the character would appear in front of the skewed portrait. I guess you could then have a line of portraits going down into the background like mvc with the character sprites in front to make it look like a line of character sprites facing each other... lined up like they're about to fight.p

something like this I guess for reference:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6572/cpv01dcd1c32dy3.jpg

but with portraits and character sprites...

I do that already with my select in EVE I guess.

If the category section is 4 slots wide it would only take 4x20 to cycle through the category list by moving the icon selector left to right.

Also if there was an auto command like if you held down the left or right button a certain number of seconds that it would automatically move in that direction changing categories would be easy.

Or if SakirSoft makes it in steps with an additional button. Like a back button or something- so you'd need 6 buttons for punches, 1 for taunt, and 1 for back as well as the d pad.  But cycling through the categories on my select would be easy since the most sections you could possibly have is 20 maybe more but not by much, and the categories would only be 4 slots wide, although an infinite number of slots tall or deep. I guess if you move down it would display 2 more row's or just 1 row moving the other row out of view.

Meh hope that clears things up

I like your idea Krizalid_99v2

I was thinking we can combine both of them with that spot thats open in the middle of my version of the select between the two large portraits but then I wouldn't have space for something like what I have below- so I still kinda like my select

But in your select why are there 3 portraits I thought you could have 4 characters?

What I was hoping is that SakirSoft could make it like MVC. Say if I select a character it would skew their portrait- something like this:



So it would look like this originally....


but onces you pic a character you can then change the palette and the character would appear in front of the skewed portrait. I guess you could then have a line of portraits going down into the background like mvc with the character sprites in front to make it look like a line of character sprites facing each other... lined up like they're about to fight. Maybe a code to make each character use their taut as they're waiting for all the other selections to be made...<-- I don't think that's possible though

something like this I guess for reference:



but with portraits and character sprites...

Quote

- You don't get to see the category/game list. This means the player has to 'blind select' or 'guess search' by moving a lot of spaces to the right or left (especially if it's a 2x10 grid) to find the desired category/game. A solution could be to have the player memorise the category pattern or look at the select.def, otherwise it'll be all guess work...

I do that already with my select in EVE I guess. If the category section is 4 slots wide it would only take 4x20 to cycle through the category list by moving the icon selector left to right.  Also if there was an auto command like if you held down the left or right button a certain number of seconds that it would automatically move in that direction changing categories would be easy.

Or if SakirSoft makes it in steps with an additional button. Like a back button or something- so you'd need 6 buttons for punches, 1 for taunt, and 1 for back as well as the d pad.  But cycling through the categories on my select would be easy since the most sections you could possibly have is 20 maybe more but not by much, and the categories would only be 4 slots wide, although an infinite number of slots tall or deep. I guess if you move down it would display 2 more row's or just 1 row moving the other row out of view.

Meh hope that clears things up

I suggest making a cover flow select screen.