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My question is fairly simple. I created an event, and set it to hide screen. This gives me the entire screen blacked out, as I want it to be. My problem is that any text I use during this is also blacked out, and can't be seen.

So what I'm asking is, is there a way to entirely black out the screen, yet make your text visible? So that I can create a small intro to my game with a little story to it, without there being anything in the background?

I have thought about creating a new map, and using a custom background, like a space scene, then having my story pop up there. The problem with that is that I would have to edit the party so there's no visible hero just floating in my background. So to me it seems a heck of a lot easier to just black out the entire screen.

I'm new to this whole thing though. Just started my game a few days ago. However I own AgeTec's RPG Maker for Playstation, so I'm familiar with quite a few of the things you can do with events. But on the Playstation version, it was much easier to black out a screen and have text scroll across it in an almost Star-Wars-esque presentation.

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. :)