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DVD Architect Hiding Button Question
When I open DVD-A I get a blue screen with the text menu 1. Deleting the menu 1 text I am now left with a clean blue screen. I inserted 2x buttons and changed the buttons style to text only and renamed button 1 to test 1 and button 2 to test 2 and placed them on top of each other.
What I would like to do now is hide test 2 so that only test 1 appears on the preview screen, however when you press the down arrow key on the DVD remote, test 1 disappears and test 2 appears.
If there is a newsletter someone can direct me too or is willing to post a step by step procedure it would be much appreciated.
Thanking ahead.
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6 Replies
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You can’t have buttons on top of each other.
Gary
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Sorry Gary bad chose of wording, not directly on top of each other more so next to each other.
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There’s the “Masked Menus” article in Vol 2 #6 of the newsletter but I’m not sure you can make them totally invisible. Here’s some other thoughts on the subject and a download to the “What’s new in DVDA2” pdf file which has a great description of masking as well:
https://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=22&MessageID=282281
Edward Troxel
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just wondering ?
if you don’t see test 2 button why have it ? -
OK, You want to have text buttons that are invisible unless selected, yes?
You can do this with highlight masking. Create the text in black with a transparent background (in a graphics program) and save the mask as a png file. Be sure and place the text where you want your buttons to be.
In DVDA, create your buttons so the box that defines their area will cover where your text in your mask will be and change their highlighting style to one of the overlay modes.Delete both image and text for your buttons so that they are invisible when not seleted.
Add the mask to Menu Page Properties>Highlight Mask.
That should do it.
Gary
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I do something similar to this when I want to make “easter eggs” available after a particular chapter is viewed. The trick is to have multiple copies of the menu and use the end actions to go to the other menu pages.
Try this:
Menu “A” has button “1” and menu “B” has button “2”. The end action from the media in button “1” goes to menu “B”. and vice versa.Steve Mann
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