Synopsis

I have a huge 1.12.2 mod pack that takes a long time to load. So I created a small mod pack with just Fancy Menu in it. I configured everything to my liking then copied it to the new mod with huge load times.

However, the custom main menu doesn't load.

What happens

The intro animation that I made in the fm only pack loads just fine in the bigger pack, however the main menu is vanilla.

What I think is happening

On the tiny fm only pack the customization file is named GuiMainMenu.txt, so I thought to myself maybe you're storing what the name of the main menu is or if there is even in a strange place. Don't know for sure. So I create a new custom layout and save it.

Weirder Things, the new layout menu is now called GuiCustomMainMenu.txt!!! "Custom" came from somewhere, the tiny fm pack didn't generate the filename not one time. It's like you took the effort to make sure that your mod can't load previously generated configs. I'm sure you didn't do that deliberately.

I'm fairly certain, that is not the case because the tiny fm only pack can load the custom screen no issues, over and over again from fresh start.

What now?

For me, i'll just bite the bullet and rebuild the screen entirely in the larger pack which I did not want to do because of the long loading times when debugging the menu.

Why did I post this?

1. it really is a bug/useability report
2. no one else reported
3. this is a great mod and I want others to know this bug is acknowledged at least by someone

is there no way you can override the gui bs caused by other mods and force your menu to take precedence? thus avoiding this altogether?

BTW, you're 90% incompatible with More Refined Storage mod. What it prevents is the background.

I'm removing it from my pack to find the next thing that conflicts.

Take a look at the menu identifier (by clicking on the menu info button) of the main menu when you've loaded your big mod pack. I bet the identifier now ends with "GuiCustomMainMenu", so obviously, your previously generated customization file, which is searching for menus with another identifier, isn’t working. The identifier was changed to something like "CustomMainMenu", because one of your active mods is completely overriding the vanilla main menu screen. I don’t think that all customization features will work in this custom screen, but you can try it. Just change the identifier in your customization file to the correct one and it should load.

There is no problem in importing layouts from previous versions or other mod setups in general :)

ok, i was coming here to say that I found this

this needs to be documented in your wiki.

This IS documented in my wiki.

NOTE: The identifier for the same type of menu is NOT always the same for different versions of Minecraft and mods you want to customize!

That’s a quote from the menu customization page ^^

yep, removed that mod and no longer have my problem. If you don't have an incompatible list, might need to start one.

is there no way you can override the gui bs caused by other mods and force your menu to take precedence? thus avoiding this altogether?

That’s not possible. Most mods are waiting for the specific menu to load and loading its custom version instead. There’s literally no way to prevent this. The way I’m customizing menus now is the most universal way possible. My method maximizes the compatibility with other mods, but to customize special types of menus like the main menu, I have to add many stuff to make things like custom backgrounds possible. If some mod completely overrides a menu (which is a very lazy and REALLY bad practice), I can’t do anything.

BTW, you're 90% incompatible with More Refined Storage mod. What it prevents is the background.

Do you mean the main menu customization is incompatible with this mod or customization on general?
Again: Sorry, but I can’t do anything to prevent such things. I can make individual mods compatible with FancyMenu, but preventing menu overriding in general is impossible. (If only the main menu customization is incompatible with the other mod, I will make it compatible with it.)

If you don't have an incompatible list, might need to start one.

People should know that not every mod is compatible with all other mods ^^ Especially a mod that seems to override a complete menu screen. Is the incompatible mod visually customizing the main menu? Do you see any difference to the vanilla one? o.O Or is the dev just casually overriding menu screens?

//Edit: It seems that the "More Refined Storage Mod" is adding stuff to store items ingame, am I right? I don’t understand why such a mod would ever need to override the main menu (or any other menu ^^). I will look into it and make it compatible with FancyMenu, but sadly I can’t do this for every mod out there that does things like this.

That's why I suggested making a public incompatible list. Having such a list show you care more than you do and helps pack authors find quickly where things have gone awry without having to dig thru everything.

I'm only trying to help you out.

I will make a wiki page for incompatible mods :)

Added compatibility for More Refined Storage with FancyMenu v1.0.1.