How do you make a transparent menu?

[omaasi]

I want to have a transparent menu in my game but I don't know how to do that. When I say transparent I mean that you can see through it to the place where the character is when you open the menu. If nobody gets what I mean, take a look at the screenshots of this menu http://www.rmxp.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=23011

 

[Dargor]

You simply need to use the opacity property of the window. Simply add the following line in the initialize method of the window

self.opacity = x

where x is the opacity value, from 0 to 255.

Take care!
-Dargor

 

[omaasi]

Thanks Dargor but it didn't work. Well, the menu got transparent but I can't see the map through it, just a black background. (Still, I'm not even sure if I put the script in the right place.) Sorry...

 

[Dargor]

For the background, you need to go into your scene (like Scene_Menu, Scene_Item, etc.) and in initialize add @spriteset = Spriteset_Map.new
Make sure to place this above every @window_xxxx.


Then, in dispose, add
@spriteset.dispose

Hope it helps!

 

[Glitchfinder]

For the background, you need to go into your scene (like Scene_Menu, Scene_Item, etc.) and in initialize add @spriteset = Spriteset_Map.new
Make sure to place this above every @window_xxxx.


Then, in dispose, add
@spriteset.dispose

Hope it helps!

You forgot one thing. You have to add @spriteset.update in the update method. Otherwise, rain won't fall, animations won't play, and everything will just...stop.

 

[Dargor]

Good point, but I thought he wanted it to be like the VX menu, where nothing is updated in the background.
Sorry if I misunderstood you omaasi.

 

[omaasi]

It's okay Dargor because it WORKED! Thanks for the help both of you!
(And besides I'm a girl but since I got my help it doesn't really matter)

 

[Velocir_X]

Okay you semm to be talking about this so I'm going to ask:
I can't get @spriteset to work for Scene_Status
It doesn't show up and I get a stack error for @spriteset.update
If I put it in Window_Status however, it shows up but I can't get @spriteset.dispose to work

 

[Dargor]

(And besides I'm a girl but since I got my help it doesn't really matter)

:x sorry!

@Velocir_X
The spriteset initialization should always happen in a scene and before the windows initialization.
Doing so will make the spriteset appear behind the windows.

So, you're doing this and it doesn't work, only for Scene_Status? That's odd.
Do you have any other scripts that alters this scene?

You can try to use this script snippet, it adds the spriteset to the Status Scene:

 

class Scene_Status

  alias dargor_xp_scene_spriteset_initialize initialize

  alias dargor_xp_scene_spriteset_update update

  alias dargor_xp_scene_spriteset_dispose dispose

  def main

    @spriteset = Spriteset_Map.new

    dargor_xp_scene_spriteset_initialize

  end

  def update

    @spriteset.update

    dargor_xp_scene_spriteset_update

  end

  def dispose

    @spriteset.dispose

    dargor_xp_scene_spriteset_dispose

  end

end

 

If you want to make this work for any scenes you want, simply change

class Scene_Status

for

class YOUR_SCENE_NAME

Take care!
-Dargor

 

[Velocir_X]

Okay I don't have any changes to Scene_Status
Or Window_Status
(except for opacity but that doesn't really count)
However it is called in from a CMS
Oh and when I tried that snippet I get an syntax error from:
alias dargor_xp_scene_spriteset_update

 

[Dargor]

Then maybe it is your CMS. But, what's the error you get with the snippet?

 

[Velocir_X]

syntax error

But I get the spriteset to work if I paste it into Window_Status
however where to put the dispose?
And I get a stack error with update

 

[Dargor]

Give me more details about the error. Which line, etc.
And I really don't recommend using it in a window, because it shouldn't belong to a window. I'm probably way too cautious about this for nothing, but as a general rule, spriteset belongs to a scene.

And when you want to dispose something, if it's in anything else than a scene, place @my_variable.dispose in the dispose method.