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Development: Transparent Textboxes

PokemonMasters

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    • Hey Guys. Want to do Tranparent Textboxes but they look so hard to do? You can do it with the WBTO (Write by Offset) command in XSE. Here is a simple script on how to make Transparent Textboxes. (For Ruby |AXVE| Only)

    Here is what you need to add to the script

    writebytetooffset 0x3F 0x4000048
    writebytetooffset 0x1F 0x4000049
    writebytetooffset 0x41 0x4000050
    writebytetooffset 0x3F 0x4000051
    writebytetooffset 0xF 0x4000052
    writebytetooffset 0xA 0x4000053
    writebytetooffset 0xFF 0x202F0AA
    writebytetooffset 0xFF 0x202F0AB
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0B8
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0B9
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0AC
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0AD
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0BE
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0BF
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C0
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C1
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C2
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C3
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C4
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C5
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C6
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C7
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C8
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C9


    Test:
    PokemonRuby.png


    Notes:
    - You must do this in Every Script you want Transparent.
    - There are some bugs in doing this. Using this script will activate them.

    Thanks for reading :D

    Credit the following people if used:
    - ~Andrea
     

    kebbles

    Rom Hacker.
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    • PokemonMasters said:
    Hey Guys. Want to do Tranparent Textboxes but they look so hard to do? You can do it with the WBTO (Write by Offset) command in XSE. Here is a simple script on how to make Transparent Textboxes. (For Ruby |AXVE| Only)

    Here is what you need to add to the script

    writebytetooffset 0x3F 0x4000048
    writebytetooffset 0x1F 0x4000049
    writebytetooffset 0x41 0x4000050
    writebytetooffset 0x3F 0x4000051
    writebytetooffset 0xF 0x4000052
    writebytetooffset 0xA 0x4000053
    writebytetooffset 0xFF 0x202F0AA
    writebytetooffset 0xFF 0x202F0AB
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0B8
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0B9
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0AC
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0AD
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0BE
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0BF
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C0
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C1
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C2
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C3
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C4
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C5
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C6
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C7
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C8
    writebytetooffset 0x0 0x202F0C9


    Test:
    PokemonRuby.png


    Notes:
    - You must do this in Every Script you want Transparent.
    - There are some bugs in doing this. Using this script will activate them.

    Thanks for reading :D

    Credit the following people if used:
    - ~Andrea
    Click to expand...

    Wow this is incrediable, i cant believe i only just found this!
    What are the bugs before I use this?
     

    itman

    Back to ROM hacking. :D
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    • Seen Feb 5, 2014
    This is amazing, but it takes up so much room to use in EVERY script.

    So what everyone should do is make that a separate script, and then at the beginning of every script, call it, so this way you can save lots of room.

    Example:

    Script to be called:
    Spoiler:


    Then if a script wants to use transparent text boxes, it would just call that one, and then it will automatically return to the script afterward due to the return command.

    Spoiler:


    Space saving ftw! I know this isn't a complex technique in anyway; I was just over explaning for newer hackers out there. :)
     
    shinyabsol1

    shinyabsol1

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    • Seen Nov 23, 2022
    Interesting. I thought you needed ASM to do this. Great work figuring this out!

    Since its just a bunch of WBTO, couldn't this work for FR too? We just need to find the equivalents in FR and change those. What exactly do allthose WBTOs do?
     

    PokemonMasters

    Always Remember Forever&After
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    • itman said:
    This is amazing, but it takes up so much room to use in EVERY script.

    So what everyone should do is make that a separate script, and then at the beginning of every script, call it, so this way you can save lots of room.

    Example:

    Script to be called:
    Spoiler:


    Then if a script wants to use transparent text boxes, it would just call that one, and then it will automatically return to the script afterward due to the return command.

    Spoiler:


    Space saving ftw! I know this isn't a complex technique in anyway; I was just over explaning for newer hackers out there. :)
    Click to expand...
    lol, I'll update the thread later on to add the "Space Saving" xD
     
    socko

    socko

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    Cool, PokemonMasters! :D you put it up. Is there a more in-depth tutorial for newbs? :P
     
    Shiny Quagsire

    Shiny Quagsire

    I'm Still Alive, Elsewhere
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    • It wouldn't be that hard to write an ASM routine to set those bytes, and attach it to a special, or even hack in a call to that function every time a textbox is loaded.
     

    PokemonMasters

    Always Remember Forever&After
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    • kebbles said:
    Wow this is incrediable, i cant believe i only just found this!
    What are the bugs before I use this?
    Click to expand...
    The bugs are:
    -if you open the menu the textxbox of menu disapeared
    -you don't change the color of the test because the wbto with you create semi-trasparent textbox makes the textbox and the text semi-trasparnet because are you found in BG0 (the screen are divided into Bg0,Bg1,Bg2,Bg3,Bg4,Bg5 and Bg6) and makes textbox and text semitrasparnet...
    -The effect of textbox finish when you doing warp
    that's why it is best to use asm..
    Pinkish Purple said:
    Cool, PokemonMasters! :D you put it up. Is there a more in-depth tutorial for newbs? :P
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    its already. You just put that in the script. How more in-depth do you want? xD
    Gamer2020 said:
    I'm sure you can make an asm function to do the same thing. I'm pretty sure all you're doing is setting registers and stuff to use the hardware windowing.

    http://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/gfx.htm#sec-win
    Click to expand...

    shiny quagsire said:
    It wouldn't be that hard to write an ASM routine to set those bytes, and attach it to a special, or even hack in a call to that function every time a textbox is loaded.
    Click to expand...
    It for newbies or people who barely or don't know anything about ASM :D
     

    pikakitten

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    • So what are the bugs involved in doing this? Are they serious? Are they permanent as in use it once and the bug is forever there or... you know.
    Thanks!

    ~Sincerely
    PikakittenX, devout member of the Pokecommunity
     
    ~Andrea

    ~Andrea

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    With this you will have the semi-trasparent textbox but there will also annoying bugs that is why using the asm which he said shiny Guaiser is always active ...
    The bug in question are:
    -If you open the menu, there will be the old textbox semi-transparent white color ...
    -With these wbto you can not become colored text
    -With these wbto you can not become a white-transparent textbox
    -the names of the cities and routes will be like the old textbox but the color white as the transparent menu
    -the effect ends when you use a warp
    So I say to you that if you do not know asm put the tetxbox normal ...
     
    socko

    socko

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    I think it is too troublesome, doing ASM is better of course but there doesn't seem to be any tutorial about ASM around here...
     

    tajaros

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    • Pinkish Purple said:
    I think it is too troublesome, doing ASM is better of course but there doesn't seem to be any tutorial about ASM around here...
    Click to expand...

    Huh?

    I think there are about 4 ASM TUT's here in PC search in the tutorial section look in the pages... Hackmew, FullMetal, Shiny Quagsire, and knizz made ASM tut's. :P
     
    Gamer2020

    Gamer2020

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    • Why don't you set the values back to what they were after you use the text box? That way the start menu won't be buggy.
     

    NintendoBoyDX

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    Yo PokemonMansters, I was wondering... Could you explain how you figured out how to do this hack, and why it works?
     
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