BASIC TITLESCREEN AND FONT CHANGES IN RMVX

Since I can't stand seeing the default titlescreen in RMVX this is the first thing that I change in a new project. Now, in RM2k3 changing the titlescreen was fairly straightforward (with the caveat of requiring a 256-channel image): you imported the correctly-sized image, opened the database, went to the System tab and changed the titlescreen. Hopefully it will be so simple with VX!

RMVX ::..
Making your own title screen

Now, when I investigated this, I saw no way to change the titlescreen in the database, like I am used to. No matter. To the Help file!

*reads*

Turns out you need to have a 544x416 PNG image called Title.png and import that into the resource section Graphics/System. As a bonus, it appears VX fully supports 32-bit PNGs. Sweet. No color loss!



Let's see how it turned out...



Not bad! Could use some refinement though. I am going to try to shift the menu to the right.

Opening up the Script Editor and loading the Scene_Title script, I do a find (ctrl + f) for @command_window.x = (544 - @command_window.width) / 2 (thanks Chaos!). This line controls the x position of the New Game etc... window. I tweak it to be 30 pixels away from the right border.



Now let's see it...



Much better! But the color is off. It'd probably look better with a maroon background, and probably some sort of serif'd font.

First, I head over to dafont.com to find a simple serif'd font (sure, I could use Times New Roman but c'mon!) and find one called Day Roman. It'll do! I download it, unpack it, and copy the .ttf file into a new folder I create in my project folder called Fonts. Next, I go back into RMVX and I create a new script (gasp!) in the Script Editor under the Materials section named Font (you can call it whatever. Font seemed appropriate). I add this code:





The default size is 20, but it was a little too small so I bumped it up. I also used Times New Roman as a backup in case something ever happened to the fonts folder or somesuch.

For the background, I export the Window.png graphic from the Resource Editor in the Graphics/System section. Using that handy image as a template, I replaced the blue gradient with a nice maroon one and import it back into my project

The "finished" product:



Not bad for a aesthetically-challenged guy like me!