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Save Menu

Save Menu

This page will guide you on the principle functionalities of the save menu.

The save menu ui can be either for as a saving screen or loading, and it can be found at:

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Integration

To integrate the save menu into your own game will depend on whether the save menu can be directly be called using keyboard keys like K for Save and L for Load.

Or otherwise, it can be added to your game menu ui like below:

• From your game menu widget, add the code below to your
  OnClicked
  event of your Save button.
  
• Do the same for the Load button but add the node SwitchLoadMenu
  
• Remove the events key code for calling the save menu in the character bp if needed.
• To customise the ui, go to SaveMenu Customise

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Slot - Flow execution

When the ui WBP_SaveMenu is opened:

• Make sure there no other old save(.sav) files in your project folder(YourProject>Saved>SaveGame)
• The vertical box that store all the slot is initially disabled until all slots are loaded.
  
• The construct event will first look for any save file in the saved directory and push their data into their respective slot number.
• After all save files have been allocated a slot, the vertical box will be enabled for interaction.
• Their thumbnail will be loaded in the background without interupting other processes. A loading circular bubble will be shown before fully loaded.
  

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Slot Interaction

• The first slot is reserved for autosave therefore it can't be manually overwrite(this can be changed on it detail panel with unchecking the box "Reserve AutoSave").
• From WBP_SaveMenu, the Reserve AutoSave can be enabled or disable from it slot detail panel:
  
• An empty slot will be mark as No Data.
• A confirmation popup to save/overwrite will appear only if the slot was highligted(selected) before.
  
• The user can navigate the slots using arrow key as well.

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