Menu background image instead of windowskin?

[Wawa 0]

Hi guys!

 

Hoping someone here might know how to do this. I'm using RPG Maker XP.

 

I am not looking for a new menu system - the default works fine for me but I'd like to have a background image instead of a window skin. I made a transparent skin (except for areas like arrows/selection box.) My question now is how to get a background image to show every time the menu is called. If it's possible to have different images on each menu page (item, skill, equip etc) even better. To give you a general idea of what I'm trying to do, I made some mock up images:

 

the default menu: http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z468/Wawa80/normalmenu.gif

 

the menu with transparent skin: http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z468/Wawa80/transparentmenu.gif

 

example "background image" : http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z468/Wawa80/exampleimage.gif

 

the desired result: http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z468/Wawa80/desiredmenu.gif

 

If anyone can help me out (or point me in the right direction) I would really appreciate it. Thanks for your time!

[brewmeister 3]

Paste above Main..

 

class Scene_Menu
 alias custom_menu_main main
 def main
   #Draw background sprite
   @bg = Sprite.new
   @bg.bitmap = RPG::Cache.picture("menuback")
   custom_menu_main
   @bg.dispose
 end
end

 

You need to save the background image in .png or .jpg format

Change "menuback" in the script to match your filename. (or name the file: menuback.png)

[dolarmak 23]

I know this is necro posting.

 

I got this to work perfectly for the main menu, but i want to have a different picture for each screen like the status screen, item screen and other ones. Can some one help me with that?

[diagostimo 11]

just apply the above example to each scene: changing the class name and image name where necessary

[dolarmak 23]

I feel pretty stupid now lol. Thanks Diagostimo.

[ranafire1 0]

Thanks for the code snippet. I'm using Custom Resolution and Blizz together. Finding a good menu editor that dosn't break my game was nearly impossible. This saves me the trouble of changing the menu at all. Now that annoying black space around my menu can be filled with custom art.

 

Is it possible to do this with the battle menu as well? Or have an image come up every time a message apears?