How do you Set Screen Color Tone with a script?

[PhotonWeapon]

See topic. I'm sure it's something like $game_screen.start_tone_change(-255,-
255,-255, 0), but I get an error that says

"ArgumentError occurred while running script.

wrong number of arguments (4 for 2)"

I'm guessing I'm only supposed to have two numbers in there, not 4, but I don't think 2 is enough to set the entire screen tone.


EDIT: I looked a little further and I saw a method that went 'def start_tone_change(tone, duration)'. So I tried $game_screen.start_tone_change([-255, -255, -255, 0], 10) to make the screen black (with 0 gray) and last 10 frames. But now I get this error:

"Script 'Game_Screen' line 106: NoMethodError occurred.

undefined method 'red' for [-255, -255, -255, 0]:Array"

 

[verballydecapitating]

$game_screen.start_tone_change(Tone.new(-255, -255, -255, 0), 10)
or if not that,
$game_screen.start_tone_change(Color.new(-255, -255, -255, 0), 10)

 

[PhotonWeapon]

$game_screen.start_tone_change(Tone.new(-255, -255, -255, 0), 10)
or if not that,
$game_screen.start_tone_change(Color.new(-255, -255, -255, 0), 10)

The Tone.new one works! Thank you!

Also, did you know you can set the screen tone with a variable? Try using a Call Script and type:

$tone_red = -255
$tone_green = -255
$tone_blue = -255
$tone_gray = 0
$tone_duration = 10

Then use another Call Script and go:

$game_screen.start_tone_change(Tone.new($tone_red, $tone_green, $tone_blue, $tone_gray), $tone_duration)

It pretty much does the same thing, but this could possibly be useful in certain dungeons that are supposed to remain a certain tone, and you needed to change it for one moment (i.e. turn screen completely black to cover up changes in map while teleporting), but don't want to remember the screen color of the dungeon again and again -- Just set the variables when you enter it. ^^

Anywho; thanks again! Problem resolved, I think.

 

[Ceroscuro]

Umm... calling that script would do the same thing as using the Change Screen Color Tone event command, so doing it from a call script event seems pretty pointless.

Not to mention that $game_screen.start_tone_change(Tone.new($tone_red, $tone_green, $tone_blue, $tone_gray), $tone_duration) wouldn't fit on one line of the call script box. As a matter of fact, all you can fit is $game_screen.start_tone_change(Tone. which is syntax error galore. So unless you feel like renaming classes and methods... I think it's like 100x easier to use the event command, if you're doing it from the map anyway.

 

[PhotonWeapon]

Umm... calling that script would do the same thing as using the Change Screen Color Tone event command, so doing it from a call script event seems pretty pointless.

Not to mention that $game_screen.start_tone_change(Tone.new($tone_red, $tone_green, $tone_blue, $tone_gray), $tone_duration) wouldn't fit on one line of the call script box. As a matter of fact, all you can fit is $game_screen.start_tone_change(Tone. which is syntax error galore. So unless you feel like renaming classes and methods... I think it's like 100x easier to use the event command, if you're doing it from the map anyway.

That's strange. The Script event command box is large, and it gives me a lot of room to write all that. I was even able to fit the whole $tone_red, etc. variable stuff in it, skipped lines and all.

Maybe we have different versions of RMXP? I have the English trial.

 

[Ceroscuro]

No, I'm saying that you can't fit $game_screen.start_tone_change(Tone.new($tone_red, $tone_green, $tone_blue, $tone_gray), $tone_duration) on one line. It has to be all on the same line or it will result in a syntax error.

 

[PhotonWeapon]

No, I'm saying that you can't fit $game_screen.start_tone_change(Tone.new($tone_red, $tone_green, $tone_blue, $tone_gray), $tone_duration) on one line. It has to be all on the same line or it will result in a syntax error.

Oh.

Well, then, event command it is then!

 

[Daniel]

No, I'm saying that you can't fit $game_screen.start_tone_change(Tone.new($tone_red, $tone_green, $tone_blue, $tone_gray), $tone_duration) on one line. It has to be all on the same line or it will result in a syntax error.

This works:

$game_screen.start_tone_change(
Tone.new($tone_red, $tone_green,
$tone_blue, $tone_gray), 
$tone_duration)

But it uses five uneeded global variables.