Can someone please give me a tutorial on how to create a startup menu screen?

There isn't a written tutorial that I know of for this...

But, maybe I can help out.

It all depends on what kind of menu you want. Do you want a menu with its own 3D scene? (using MDLs as the "buttons") Or do you want to use a background image and some panels?

More of a background image with buttons for start game, quit game, credits, help etc.

You need to look into Panels and Lite-C / C-Script...

Code:

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PANEL new_game_pan
{
	pos_x = 0; pos_y = 0;
        bmap = bg_bmap;
   
   button = 5,0,new_game_bmp,new_game_bmp,new_game_on_bmp,New_Game,NULL,NULL;
   button = 15,32,load_game_bmp,load_game_bmp,load_game_on_bmp,Load_Game,NULL,NULL;
   button = 25,64,quit_game_bmp,quit_game_bmp,quit_game_on_bmp,Quit_Game,NULL,NULL;

   layer = 1;
  
   flags = OVERLAY | TRANSLUCENT;
}

  

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