For many Quake 3 mods or games based on the Quake 3 engine source it would be desirable if you could use the Team Arena scripted menu system rather than the normal hard coded menu system of vanilla Quake 3. This is quite simple to do - a replacement of the uix86.dll or ui.qvm of vanilla Quake 3 with the one from Team Arena is all that is needed.

Using the stock Team Arena dll or qvm file does have some limitations though. A number of things that should be changable through the scripting are hard coded into the program and some desirable features are simply not avalible. To correct these problems I have made changes to the source code of the Team Arena menu system and recompiled it into a replacement dll and qvm file. Using this replacement file to add the scripted menu system will give you more scope for customization than what is avalible in the standard Team Arena files. See the Change List for details.

The replacement dll and qvm file, as well as the modified source code, are avalible on the Downloads page.

Scripting Tutorial

• Gathering the Assets - what you need to use the scripted menu system
• Menu Script File - what a script file consists of
  • Global Asset Definition - the necessities for all menus
  • Overall Menu Information - basic information about the menu
    • Examples - examples of defining the menu's overall information section
  • Defining Basic Items - those things that make up the menu
  • Advanced Items - adding more functionality to the menu
    • Backgrounds, Graphics, Text and Models Examples
    • Buttons Examples
    • Slider Examples
    • Yes/No and Multi Selection Examples
    • Editfield and Numeric Editfield Examples
    • Ownerdraw Items Examples
    • Key Bind Item Examples
    • List Box Examples
  • ingame Menus - what you need for those menus used while ingame.
  • Script Actions - basic script commands used in the menu
  • Ownerdraw Values - what you can do with the ownerdraw command
  • uiScript Commands - actions accessable by uiScript
  • Server and Map Filters - how the server and map filters work
  • Gameinfo.txt and Teaminfo.txt Files - what these files provide
  • Adding Bots to the Game - bots as players
• Single Player Tutorial - complete single player game menus
• Multiplayer Tutorial - complete multiplayer game menus
• Using Q3Font - how to use Q3Font to make fonts for your menus
• Quake 3 Colors - explaination of the Quake 3 color values
• Adding a New Feeder - modifying the source code to add a new list box feeder
• Graphical Extensions - scripting extensions to create a graphical interface
• New Features and Updates - new scripting commands and updates to others
• Downloads - get all the files used in this tutorial
• Change List - all the changes made to the scripting system.
• Links - links to other interesting sites.

 

If you any questions or comments I can be contacted at dairyman@rfactory.org.