Adjusting Combat Log Opacity?

[Pastel_Panda]

So I'm trying to make a more retraux looking game with VXA, and I've been slowly but surely tweaking menus and the like to achieve such a look. However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to adjust the opacity of the combat log, nor the color. None of the code in Window_BattleLog seems to point to adjusting it. Is it some kind of actual image file that has to be edited, or am I looking in the wrong code altogether?

If it's possible to change them without really adding additional external scripts that would be really helpful, too; I want to try to keep the number of scripts as low as I can just to ensure it doesn't become a gargantuan mess of scripts that I can't remember how to use or figure out which script is conflicting where.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

Like other windows in the game, they base it off your Window.png file then apply their own opacities etc.

Try going to the Window_BattleLog's initialization method and maybe try adding either of this

self.opacity = your value
or
@contents.opacity = your value

Alternatively, you can make a new copy of Window.png and edit it with the opacity and color that you want, then save it with a different name (lets call it WindowB.png and put it on the same folder), then on your BattleLog initialization method, add this at the end

self.windowskin = Cache.system("WindowB.png")

You cant do it simply without adding anymore script (unless you already have a windowskin changing script in) since all windows use the same base file for their graphics.

 

[Roninator2]

I think you missed the code you were looking for.
In Window_BattleLog line 149

  def back_color
    Color.new(0, 0, 0, back_opacity)
  end
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Get Background Opacity
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def back_opacity
    return 64
  end

As Engr. Adiktuzmiko says, adjusting the opacity will make the window show up all the time. To change that you would need to find a script if you want the battle log to only show up for the attacks. Or write it yourself.

 

[Pastel_Panda]

@Roninator2 Your solution is exactly what I needed! I'm kind of a scripting idiot, so this is a little bit ambitious for me (I've done little practice things here and there but never actually tried tweaking scripts before), but I think I've got exactly what I need now. Many thanks to both of you, really!

 

[Kes]

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