Development: Transparent Textboxes

[Danny0317]

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:

#org @begin
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
return

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:

#org @begin
call 0x(whateveroffsetit'sat!)
lock
faceplayer
msgbox @hi 0x6
release
end

#org @hi
= Hi.

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

Instead of doing that, how about putting that (by "that" I mean what he said about @call) in a level script so every script in the map has it and you don't have to add it to NPCs? I haven't tested it, and won't since I don't hack FR or Ruby, but would that work?

 

[MrKongKillz]

Instead of doing that, how about putting that (by "that" I mean what he said about @call) in a level script so every script in the map has it and you don't have to add it to NPCs? I haven't tested it, and won't since I don't hack FR or Ruby, but would that work?

Thank you now i can rom hacking with transparent textboxs :D

 

[Derlo]

Works great to me, but I have a little problem.

After call all "writebytetooffset" to bring the textbox to normal, if I start a script with YES/NO textbox, the game crashes....

Someone knows how to fix that?

Edit:
Forget it!
The problem was in another routine that was using along with the transparency!

 

[Bonnox]

Hi everybody!

I'm sorry for posting after this huge amount of time, but I think to have found a lighter way (it needs fewer bytes) for ruby.

these are the needed bytes:
4000040 00FF // defining windows - to edge: 03ED
4000042 FFFF
4000044 70C0 // to edge: 739D
4000046 00FF
4000048 3F3F
400004A 001F
4000050 00FE // start blending

202F0AC 6B5A // I change the text color to be more pleasant (just personal feeling)
202F0BC 0000

"to edge" means that you have to use that value if you don't want the effect to "go past" the textbox.

just a remainder: you have to set the transparent higlight (simply put "\c\h02\h00" at the beginning of an XSE text), and DESTROY with zeros 0x1BF bytes with an hex editor at 08EA0108, in order the textbox to be gone (actually, trasparent, but who cares) {XD} (at the time I came up with this I didn't know ASM yet, so couldn't directly stop the routine that prints the box)

with the halfword at 04000054 you can change the intensity of the effect ^^
by default, this produces a "darken" effect. if you want a "lighter" effect, just substitute this in above:
4000050 00BE

after closing the message, terminate the effects with:
4000050 1E40 (this value is used by gamefreak, therefore *should* be correct)

(and sorry for the too much brackets :v )