Hi, I've just started to work on cryengine 3 and have a question about implementing a textbox with scaleform so that users can type their account info or password stuff.
I had a little experience with UDK before and created Login Menu with UDK so I know how to create a textbox in flash so i've created a textbox with CS5.5 and ended up with successfully loading the textbox in cryengine's UI emulator.
But the thing is I couldn't type in any character in the box even when i clicked on it with mouse cursor so that it was focused. I guess the problem occurred because i was supposed to disable player movement or something while the textbox was focused so that key input went to the textbox instead of moving player since i had the same problem when i used UDK. I was able to disable player movement in UDK by modifying kismet but in cryengine, i think i have to do something with flowgraph which i'm not familiar with and lacks helpful tutorials.
I would appreciate if you share some information about implementing textbox using scaleform in cryengine or correct me if im going to wrong way.

Thank you in advance

Have a look at how Crytek set it up with Login to server in the MultiPlayer section in FlowGraph. There is a textbox there where you need to type in your nickname. Then just set up your custom one with an Instance / ID.

Hi, I am also trying to get the input textbox to work but haven't been able to so far. I am having the same problem as Casper...I am able to get the input textbox to show up in Cryengine, but I am unable to type any text in it. I looked at Crytek's multiplayer flowgraph textbox but wasn't sure how to get mine to work from looking at that one. Any added advice? Thanks in advance! :-)

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What i did was to copy Crytek's work on the TextBox part in Multiplayer and adapt it to my FG work. Just dragged my mouse over the FG part and copy / pasted it into my stuff. It worked.

Hey Lavizh, thanks for responding and I am sorry to keep bugging you with this, but I am new to this and I still don't quite understand. Are you referring to the nodes shown here?


If so, I am not sure how to use them correctly. If I have a custom input textbox from Flash how do I adapt it to work with these nodes? If you have time could you show a pic of a simple example FG for this and actionscript for the textbox? Sorry again for being slow on this and thanks for the help! :-)