[Suggestion] Nightly - Select.def additional option

[Impc7R]

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hidden = 4
Where you can still display the char icon portrait 9000,0 and it can be hovered with the cursor and previewed with the 'Big Portraits' in system.def but not possible to choose, I don't see why it has to be either RandomSelect icon or hidden icon. Or another idea if in system.def is added a portrait like a cell.hidden.spr = 1, 0 for locked chars, or it can render if they have a separate 'Locked' portrait sprite.

Example of locked (greyed out), can be hovered over but not chosen:

This is especially for AI-only chars

Speaking of which what happened to boss = 1, is it working? It never worked for me also with the menu item "menu.itemname.menumission.bossrush" same with "menu.itemname.menumission.bonusgames" just throws into main menu

Another idea is to

slot = {
SF6Cammy, Order = 2, previous = d, next = w
Cammy, Order = 2, Order = 2, previous = d, next = w, select = /s + a
}

to add the portraits of characters in the slots as overlay on top of the others?

Still don't know what D and W are used for, they do not work and if in such case both chars can be randomized as opponents in Arcade?

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[Impc7R]

in Char Selection Menu

I am making a workaround for this, for the Lock thing, now it's not about expanding char portraits. I am doing this because instead of having a generic ? for random and hidden locked chars, I was trying to show which Char is locked with putting a sprite on top of the Char's portrait..

I added a 'Lock' sprite in the system.sff on the hidden=3 characters that display random icon. I made the sprite layerno = 1 to draw on top of char's small portraits/icons. When the lock icon is semi transparent or with trans = add1 it kind of works to both see the cursor and the sprite drawn on top.

The problem: Stage selection

In stage selection the sprite that I drew on top stays - that is a problem because I use Stage Selection BG that is full screen on top of char portraits (because it is a menu after selecting chars) and on this Stage BG I see the portrait icons I drew as sprites,

I thought where you have the stage.portrait.bg.spr =

something like stage.portrait.bg.layer = 1 (or 2) would be nice to cover everything else of char portraits but that is not valid and the char portrait still stays there, kind of invalidates the purpose of me drawing a portrait or icon on top of the char portraits. I mean Stage Selection does cover the char selection - add a big Stages Menu background and it will be all you see but the sprite that I added with layer = 1 stays on top. If I had the sprite with layer = 0 then it would be hidden by the RandomSelect which shows when hidden=3

I use this also as another extra. when a character completes the Arcade I mark them as 'champions' and would have been nice if I could make him hidden (to not play him again until dethroned) with a certain lock portrait, or even 'champion' portrait as right now you can only either hide the portrait completely, use the generic RandomSelect portrait or as in my case add a sprite where I want but it clashes with Stage selection, I thought Stage Selection BG's draw on top because it is the menu after char selection.

Which is why I thought it could be nice to have a parameter in Select.def where hidden = (other number) can display a sprite of System.sff for these different numbers like I use 'locked', 'champion', 'champion teams'

or if I have a way to hide the sprite displayed to not show up in Stage Selection

or I was ready to use hidden=1 if that didn't prevent selecting the character but it's just hidden, yet selectable and randomizable. I want to make a char not randomizable and only hidden = 3 does that.

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Okay maybe the solution here is to have hidden=2. then the portrait will be skipped and not selected, there will be no RandomSelect portrait and I can draw the sprites as layer = 0 to not draw on top in Stage Selection

So you can add this to the not so needed features but a a hidden= that allows to hover over the char or display another icon just like hidden=3 displays the RandomSelect icon, but cannot randomize the char and select him like hidden=2, could be a nice addition.