I'm back, And windowskins

[promiser]

The point of this thread is 2 fold, I'm back, I'm sure some of you remember me and the tons of problems I've was having. I had to take a break from my projects for finals and my computer was acting up for the longest time. Now that schools out I have a little more free time. That was the first point, Now the primary goal. Is there a tutorial for understanding how to make and use the window skins? I tried making my own the other day to create the parchment effect for my menus and boxes... And lets just say that was less than productive. I ended up with this really nice center of the text box with the exact effect I wanted. But for whatever reason the edges of it were repeated hack job pieces of the image. I look at the difference between what I had and the default had and notice some odd triangles next to the blue field the game uses for text boxes, I'm guessing that is what the game uses for pointers and selectors. I'd also like to change those... If anybody could point me the direction of that tutorial if it even exists or if somebody could explain it to me I'd be grateful

 

[danyo34]

There is a windowskin tutorial here.
It explains what the different parts of the windowskin do, and has a template that you can use. I hope that this helps.
P.S. Did you try using the search function?

 

[Ellie]

Thanks danyo,



It's important to note (i don't believe this was said in that tut) that the main background, and the sides of the border, don't tile, but stretch, if that would affect your designs.

 

[promiser]

Thanks! One last problem... I'm using a parchment window skin I made and the text boxes are all semi transparent and it looks bad with what I'm trying to do. Is there a way to kill this? Thanks again. You all have been nothing but helpful

 

[Glitchfinder]

Thanks! One last problem... I'm using a parchment window skin I made and the text boxes are all semi transparent and it looks bad with what I'm trying to do. Is there a way to kill this? Thanks again. You all have been nothing but helpful

Go to the Script Editor, and find the script titled Window_Message. (It's most of the way down in the list of scripts starting with Window_) Add this code between lines 21 and 22, and then change what is now line 187 to the same thing as well.

self.back_opacity = 255

 

[promiser]

Ty! That's all for now... I think this is worth mentioning, Anybody and everybody who has helped me so far I'll post a thread just before completion to get everybody who helped me with this. I'll try to remember but I have a tendency to forget things Thanks again