Making the menu and pause menu and my issues with perforce

author: Angel Ceron

Posted on 10/10/2025

This week I worked on the UI, making the UI screens for the main menu and pause menu and making fucntion buttons in c++ so once you click on them they will work and when you edit the text of the button inside, you will see the change in real time. An a example would be the pause menu, after you press the pause key, it would pop up the menu.

The problems i faced were mostly from dealing perforce, as I didn't know how to properly push and caused my whole team to suffer from it,this was bad since the build we had, had no main menu working and no pause menu as well so if we shipped this it would have been awful to the players. My other issue is the music which i try to add this week I ran out of time to implenented correctly when i press play, my audio did not play at all, will focus on next week to solve that. A bug i have is my pause menu after resuming the level when I go press my pause key again, it takes a while to pause and from then on i need to press P twice to open it up again, i tried to solve issue with different solutions but none of them worked so I am keeping it as is and solving it for this week, I consider this a high priority since this would make the players confuse since if they press it again and it stops the game and doesn't show the menu, they would think the game crashed and pressing it twice to pause would ruin the flow of the game.

I solved my issues by thanks to my teammates, especially reece by teaching me how to push properly, by checking out the files i worked on and then submitting them. Which works now and doesn't delete anything when i pull the latest the verison of the project and now my team members can access my new code i have pushed. This is great not for my team but for the player this is great since they will now have a proper build with a menu that works and pause that works 90%.Again I will workk solving the issue with the pause and me fixing the issue why the msuic doesn't play but now would be less issues with perforce ans things will now be more smooth for my teammates and myself.