Can built-in menus be customized visually?

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Can built-in menus be customized visually?

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I was wondering if built-in menus (like equipment, spells, inventory, etc...) can be customized anywhere within the engine. I like the way these menus work but wouldn't mind changing all these menus so that none of their background box styles are semi-transparent. I want all my menus to just have a solid coloured background or to be 100% transparent.

I suppose if worse came to worse I could work around this by spawning a solid coloured box slice in behind the semi-transparent menus to at the very least get a solid overall menu.
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James has put a lot of work into this, and several of the menus are close to being customisable. But not yet. And slicification of Equip and other menus hasn't even start yet, you'll have to use that workaround anyway. Here's how you would place the background box:

Status: background fills the screen with 8px padding on each side
Spells: background fills the screen with 8px padding on top and bottom, and 5px on left and right
Items: only the description box is fuzzy. It's 16px high, aligned to the bottom, with 2px padding on left and right. Box style 1.
Equip: backdrop is centered and 304x184
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@TMC:

Thanks. I'll use my workaround for the time-being but am definitely excited to see what I can do once they're customizable.
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