Menu window transparent and seperate windowskin, possible?

[Jessica4s]

I have very limited knowledge of RGSS, I sincerely apologize if what follows is noobish  :blush: .

I have been toying around with the default script but i one thing that i really want to achieve but i can't! I want to make the menu window (the one that show up when you press escape during a game) semi transparent.

I want to make it transparent such a way that when you press escape, you can see the map. I have made a quick example on what's on my mind:

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This is obviously photoshoping, the base idea is to make a menu window with around 80% transparency. Is this possible?

I've got another question; I wanted to know whether i can use a separate windowskin for the menu. Is script needed to do so?

I'll gladly accept any help!

Thanks for reading my topic! <3

Peace.

Jess

 

[BlueScope]

Since the following is completely remembered from when I used RMXP, I'd suggest you to backup your project or scripts.rxdata in order to allow me making mistakes without screwing your project up unintentionally ^^"

The windowskin thing is quickly answered... you sure need to script, but as it's a single line, it shouldn't be too bothersome. All you need to do is inserting the following line in every window's initialize method used by Scene_Menu... (aka click on, for example, Window_Gold in the script editor's left column, then find the line 'def initialize', and below the 'super(...)' line, insert this line

self.windowskin = Cache.windowskin("NameOfImageWithoutFileExtension")

Come to think of it, it will be bothersome, because the default menu screen uses like a fortune of windows... maybe you'd be better off changin the message window's windowskin...

A common way to achieve transparency is the way to overlay the menu scene over the map scene... not too hard actually, just look for the '$scene = Scene_Menu.new' within Scene_Map and replace it with this:

$scene2 = Scene_Map.new

Now, head for Scene_Menu and search a line containing '$scene = Scene_Map.new', which you want to change to

$scene2 = nil

That should do it, though I'm not entirely sure because I simply never used it myself... oh, you need to change all the window's opacity as well... do the same as for the windowskin, just with this line:

self.back_opacity = 204

This sets the opacity of the blue window background to 80% of 255, which is the non-transparent value...

Hope this works.

 

[Sarkilas]

I've always used this:

@map = Spriteset_Map.new

And then settings the opacity to like 200 for the windows, as for the default menu:

@command_window.opacity = 200
@status_window.opacity = 200
@playtime_window.opacity = 200
@gold_window.opacity = 200

Note that 0 is totally transparent, and 255 is opaque. Many people I have known misunderstood this part :P

Oh, and before I forget, search for:

@status_window.dispose

And toss in right above it:

@map.dispose

Cheers.