Customizing the Options Screen

[Crazy Li]

Well... first tag every screen you want to hide as something, whether it be menu or whatever else you want to tag them as. Just make sure the ones on top are tagged differently than the ones on the bottom.

Then rejigger the button so it's something like this:

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textbutton "Return" action Hide("menuscreen")

With "menuscreen" being what the screens you want to hide are tagged as.

Sweet! That works. Thank you so much! That was perfect on the Main Menu. All I needed to do to complete the package was make a conditional if to check if you're in-game or not. In game, it uses Return(), at the Main Menu, it uses Hide(). Only reason I did this was because Hide() in game brought me back without any text boxes which was kinda weird and I had to hit Esc to show anything on the screen beyond the background image. Kinda confusing, so the default Return() works best here.

Either way, I got something workable now. Thanks again.

[OokamiKasumi]

Nope, that didn't work. I tried putting in the code you said as you said, but this doesn't hide the background in game for me. Is it maybe where I put the $ clear = False statement? You never really said what file to put it in or where.

Did you go in options.rpy and change your gm_root to a blank png?
-- (I was under the impression that you already had.)

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        ## The background of the main menu. This can be a color
        ## beginning with '#', or an image filename. The latter
        ## should take up the full height and width of the screen.
        mm_root = "bg_main",

        ## The background of the game menu. This can be a color
        ## beginning with '#', or an image filename. The latter
        ## should take up the full height and width of the screen.
        gm_root = "blank.png",

The flag belongs at the Beginning of your game in script.rpy under an init, with all the rest of your images and character definitions.

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init:     
    image bg_main = "bg_main.jpg"
    $ clear = False

[Crazy Li]

Nope, that didn't work. I tried putting in the code you said as you said, but this doesn't hide the background in game for me. Is it maybe where I put the $ clear = False statement? You never really said what file to put it in or where.

Did you go in options.rpy and change your gm_root to a blank png?
-- (I was under the impression that you already had.)

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        ## The background of the main menu. This can be a color
        ## beginning with '#', or an image filename. The latter
        ## should take up the full height and width of the screen.
        mm_root = "bg_main",

        ## The background of the game menu. This can be a color
        ## beginning with '#', or an image filename. The latter
        ## should take up the full height and width of the screen.
        gm_root = "blank.png",

The flag belongs at the Beginning of your game in script.rpy under an init, with all the rest of your images and character definitions.

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init:     
    image bg_main = "bg_main.jpg"
    $ clear = False

Of course I already had a blank (well semi-transparent) image in there. I also put the code at the beginning of script.rpy under the init as you said.

Doing it all was no different than if I didn't do it. It still shows the gm_root background image regardless of where the menu is called from.

It's ok though. I got something that works with Sundown's advice.

[OokamiKasumi]

It's ok though. I got something that works with Sundown's advice.

As long as you're happy with the results you have, I'm glad.