Menu Replacer

Learning how to modify the existing Fallout 4 menus will open many possibilities for an author. This document provides a guide to restoring and editing the existing Fallout 4 menus.

Menus

• MessageBoxMenu
• BookMenu

Objectives

• This example will be fully Xbox compatible.

Topics

• Demonstrate the built in HTML text capability of Flash text fields.

Requires

• FFDec (using v20.1.0)
• Adobe Animate (CC 2024)
• Emojis (https://openmoji.org/)

Tutorial Steps

Step 1: Menu Restoration

Restore the MessageBoxMenu source files for editing in Adobe Animate.

Step 2: Menu Edit

Add simple markdown rendering support for the body text of Message forms.

Step 3

Create a runtime shared emoji art library to support rendering emoji text tags. An example of an emoji text tag would be writing :smile: in the body text of a Message form.