Customize the Loading Screen

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This tutorial will teach you how to customize the loading screen of your map.

Prerequisites

• Working map

Setting up the XML File

Create a new XML file in your level's folder (where the .cry and other files are located). XML files are just text files so you can create a ".txt" file and change its extension to ".xml".

In this new XML file, add the following lines:

<MetaData>
   <!--Level Customizations goes here-->
</MetaData>

Customizing the Title

To customize the title, add the following directly after "<!--Level Customizations goes here-->":

<HeaderText text="Map title here"/>

For example, customizing the title to "HappyMap" would produce the following XML:

<MetaData>
 <!--Level Customizations goes here-->
 <HeaderText text="HappyMap"/>
</MetaData>

Customizing the Description

To customize the description, add the following directly after "<!--Level Customizations goes here-->":

<DescriptionText text="Map description here"/>

For example, customizing the description to "My very first map" and the title to "HappyMap" would produce the following XML:

<MetaData>
 <!--Level Customizations goes here-->
 <DescriptionText text="My very first map"/>
 <HeaderText text="HappyMap"/>
</MetaData>

Customizing the Image

To customize the image, add the following directly after "<!--Level Customizations goes here-->":

<LoadingScreens screen1="MyLoadingScreen.dds"/>

Replace MyLoadingScreen.dds with your custom image name. The image has to be converted to .dds format.

For example, customizing the image to "mapimage.dds", the description to "My very first map" and the title to "HappyMap" would produce the following XML:

<MetaData>
 <!--Level Customizations goes here-->
 <LoadingScreens screen1="mapimage.dds"/>
 <DescriptionText text="My very first map"/>
 <HeaderText text="HappyMap"/>
</MetaData>

See also

Creating a Minimap