Dynamic Accolades Popmenu

[Vanden]

I've put together a popmenu to help with the common task of accolade hunting. It's a full list of power-granting accolades, with submenus for every badge required to earn the accolades.

 

 

Why use this popmenu over other, more complete badge popmenus? Unlike other, similar popmenus, this popmenu disables badge entries as you unlock badges, meaning a locked entry shows that you already have the badge. When you don't have the badge, each entry can be clicked and a message will print on the System chat channel telling you how to earn the badge. 

 

 

As you unlock accolades, the menu entries will change to options that allow you to activate the accolade powers. (Naturally, clicking on the entries for passive accolades will do nothing.) This also allows you to see at a glance which accolades your character owns, since the entries to use the powers will have the power icons.

 

 

 

Within each category, there is also an "All Badges" option, which opens a window describing how to earn every badge all at once.

 

 

If you want to see the requirements for accolades after unlocking them, there is a static version of the menu included, which will always show the requirements.

 

 

Lastly, if you should find yourself testing upcoming content on a Beta shard, an option to unlock the accolades directly will appear in each submenu.

 

 

To use the dynamic popmenu, use the command "/popmenu AccoladesDynamic". To use the static version, the command is "/popmenu AccoladesStatic". Personally, I bound the popmenu to the ] key: "/bind ] popmenu AccoladesDynamic".

 

You can find the popmenu attached to this post. To install it, download Accolades.mnu, navigate to your City of Heroes: Homecoming install location, then go through the following folders: "data > texts > English > Menus", and place Accolades.mnu in the Menus folder. If any of those folders don't exist, simply create them as you go. The mod is also available through the CoH Modder tool created by @Michiyo:

 

https://cityofheroes.dev/mods/modView/301

 

 

 

Accolades.mnu

Edited 13 hours ago by Vanden

[Vanden]

Update: The menu can now be used to activate accolades as well as track their unlock progress, and on Beta shards there will be entries to immediately grant the accolades to the current character.

[Ukase]

That's nice work. I don't know if folks appreciate how tedious that had to be to create, even if you started with a template. Good stuff!