Scenes

Description

This page has documentation on the "Scene" system seen in Luigi's Mansion, which handles the most basic game states (Title Screen, Boot, Main Game, etc).

Definitions

Scene Structure

Member Name	Member Type	Member Offset	Member Description
mName	char[16]	0x00	The name of the scene.
_10	s16 (signed short)	0x10	Currently unknown, but could be some sort of id.
mInitFn	void (*SceneInitFunc)()	0x14	A pointer to the scene's function used for initializing the scene.
mUpdateFn	u32 (*SceneUpdateFunc)()	0x18	A pointer to the scene's function used for updating the scene every frame.
mDrawFn	void (*SceneDrawFunc)()	0x1C	A pointer to the scene's function used for drawing the scene every frame.
mDestroyFn	void (*SceneDestroyFunc)()	0x20	A pointer to the scene's function used for destroying the scene and it's resources.

SceneID Enum

ID	Enum Name	Description
0	SCENE_BOOT !! Scene when booting up the game.
1	SCENE_TITLE !! Title screen Scene.
2	SCENE_MAIN_GAME !! Scene for the main game.
3	SCENE_SELECT !! File select scene.
4	SCENE_OPENING !! The scene for the opening that plays when idling on the title screen.
5	SCENE_STUFF_ROLL (Staff Roll) !! Staff roll scene
6	SCENE_ENDING !! Ending scene.
7	SCENE_MOVIE !! Scene used for the Pikmin movie.

External variables

Name	Type	Address (USA)	Description
sCurScene	Scene*	0x804CFF98	A pointer to the current scene loaded into memory.
sCurSceneId	SceneID	0x804D80A0	The current scene's id, mainly used for indexing sSceneTable.
sSceneTable	Scene*[8]	0x8021DB20	A table consisting of all of the scenes, with the indexes corresponding to SceneID.

References

Luigi's Mansion Decompilation