System Shock 2 Modern Menu
18 Jan 2021
by ZylonBane

Requires SS2 NewDark patch.

This mod replaces the main menus with menus in a more modern style.

There are separate English, German, and international (anything other than English or German) versions of this mod. This is necessary because SS2's UI code only knows how to center text within each text region. There's no way to tell it to left-justify text, so to make it look as if it is, I had to fake it by sliding each text field around until they lined up. This only works when the precise text of each field is known, so it has to be done on a per-language basis. The international version just gives up and leaves everything centered, and with more vertical spacing to accommodate any text overflowing to multiple lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atod-xFVqtg
This was specifically inspired by the menus for Valve's Source Engine games, which show a live scene from the game behind the menu text. I wanted to see if I could pull off something similar-looking in Dark.

Wow, that is an image animation and not a rendered scene?!
I didn't notice. Good work!

There's a Discord?

Hey, could someone post intrface/netmain.str and intrface/sim.str from the Deutsch and Français versions of the game?

There are some French strings in shock.cfg, so... 

AFAIK the English and German versions are the only official releases. The fact that we have a French translation mod would seem to confirm that there is no French release.

This is awesome! I take it there are no plans to do any from any other scenes/levels?. Would be nice to have a handful of mods we can switch to as we progress similar to how the main menu in the Source games updates occasionally as we progress through the game.

Maybe some ideas can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVAFyoTsqiQ

I've updated the English version to work correctly when multiplayer is disabled, and added German and international versions.

what a heresy