Transparent Message boxes

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Author: hebobbit
Posted on 08/02/2004
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E

ffective Message Boxes (Part One)
The word's in your game are some of the most powerful things in a game. They tell the
story, develop the character, display's stat's among things. So why not make them look nice?
This tutorial will be a part series. I am not sure not how long this series will be, it depend's
how good and how many uses a message box can be done in RPG Maker 2000.

Creating Translucent Message Boxes
A translucent box is a message box with a transparent box for the background of the
textbox. This is done quite simply in just a few steps.

**Step One**
Open your RPG Maker 2000 graphics editor, I will be using I Draw. Make a picture, 320 x 240
and make a box the size of a message box on the bottom of the picture. Make sure the rest
of the picture is transparent. Then save it in your game (or RTP) folder under picture. We
will call our's trans_box.png.

In the code where you want the box to be write this.

<>Show Picture trans_box.png<>
<>Message Style Transparent and bottom and don't click prevent hero from hiding<>
<>Show Message "Transparent Message Boxes<>
<>Erase Picture trans_box.png<>

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