Edit the menu items
Written for version 3.0. Some labels may have changed since.
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The menu items are the entries of your main menu: New game, Load game, Options, Quit and so on, each with a line of help text beside it. In the Menu Items editor you add your own, choose what each one does and in which menu it shows, and change how they look.
1. Open the Menu Items editor
Open the Menu dashboard and click the Menu Items card. It says how many items show on the main menu and how many are hidden there.
The list on the left holds every item, in the order the menu shows them. The tags on each row say where it shows: MM on the main menu, SP during a single-player game and MP during a multiplayer game. Items that the menu in the preview hides are dimmed.
2. Add an item
Select the item yours should come after, and click the + button next to ITEMS. The copy button next to it duplicates the selected item, and × deletes it. To move an item, drag it by the handle on the left of its row.
3. Name it and write its help text
Type the text of the item in Label, and the line shown beside it in Help text. Both are shown in the language picked at the top of the preview.
#GameUI_GameMenu_NewGame, shown under the label. Editing their text changes that translation, in the language picked above the preview. Click the key to edit it.4. Choose what it does
Click Command to open the list of commands. Each one says what it does. Type to search the list, then click the one you want.
Some commands take Arguments. The engine command runs any console command you type there.
map c1a0 skips the tram ride and starts at Anomalous Materials.
5. Choose when it shows
Under Shown when, tick where the item appears: Main menu (not in-game), In-game - single player or In-game - multiplayer. Use Main menu, In-game · SP and In-game · MP above the preview to see each menu.
6. Style the items (optional)
Click Styling at the top of the list to change the font, size and colours of the items and their help text, and where the block of items sits.
7. Save
Click File > Save or press Ctrl+S. The Menu Items card on the Menu dashboard counts your new item.
