Making Menu Screens/Chatboxes to have different backgrounds.

[Tevi]

Back to the forums, it seems.

Anyways, I haven't been able to find an easy to use script that allows there to be different menus for different things. (I've looked all day ;-; )

I'm basing my game off a discord joke, because I thought the joke was funny, and it is a really over the top game, but this is off topic, and my request lies in the menus.
My problem is, I want the chatboxes/menus to have different backgrounds, and the Window image sets it to be the same for all textboxes and menus, plus doesn't have menu backgrounds.
An example of this is I want the escape menu to look like the User Settings menu of Discord, like the background and things. ( Basically, a black bar at the top, a dark grey rectangle behind the options like Party and End Game, and the menu where the party is to be a lighter grey. I do have an image for reference. You can ask if you feel it's needed. )
I also want the choices box to be different to the message boxes, like- the message boxes to be the discord messages, and the choices to just be the dark grey of the other menu. I'd like the solutions to not involve much coding, or be really simple, since.. I'm honestly terrible-

Sorry if I sound pushy at all, or if this is already answered. I've looked for quite a while, I may just be looking in the wrong places though.
Thanks- Tevi.

 

[Roninator2]

Since you want specific designs for different menu screens, Your best bet is to use Luna engine.
If you were changing the windowskin for a few extra scenes, that would have been easy. Just one command in the script.
But your talking about a specific look and feel. There are a few scripts that do change the menu, but the scripts only allow the entire menu to change to the same style. With luna engine you can make whatever style you want, and have it different for each screen.
A word of caution though, Luna engine is not easy and takes a fair bit of time to make it work (design + artwork).

 

[ZirconStorms]

If you're asking for something highly customized in the RGSS3 forums, never expect "simple" solutions.
You'll need to learn basic scripting skills to use these codes.

Anyways, here's stuff you can look into if you don't want to go with Ron's suggestion of using the Luna Engine:

https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/windowskin-changer.33796/
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/save-load-background-image.17059
https://www.rpgmakercentral.com/topic/22168-modifying-main-menu-elementsbackgrounds/
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/ace-images-behind-all-menus-a-request.102212/

You can also add self.windowskin = Cache.system("") in Window classes, to customize what windowskin is drawn for specific windows. EX: choice windows, message windows, etc...

 

[Roninator2]

Yes, those are options. Like I said there are scripts to change the menu... such as Galv's
https://galvs-scripts.com/2013/04/14/menu-themes-engine/
And Zirconstorms gave you the reference I was implying when I said a one line for windowskin.

https://www.rpgmakerweb.com/a/rpg-maker-vxace-recommend/luna-engine
Here is the luna engine link

You will have to give more information if none of these are good for you.