A different kind of fade

AzureGames · Post by **AzureGames** » Sun Apr 15, 2018 4:54 pm

How do you make the screen darken? Sorry in advance if you don't understand the question.

Feenicks · Post by **Feenicks** » Sun Apr 15, 2018 10:09 pm

Hmm. There's two ways I can read this question.
The first is that you just want the screen to fade to black; if that's the case, just do:

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fade screen out

The second is that you want the screen to just be darkened. This is a bit more involved, but not hugely so:

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tweak palette&#40;r,g,b&#41;
#where the r,g,b values are each some value from 0 to -63, depending on how much you want the palette to be shifted in the red/green/blue direction
#if you want a more gradual shift, do&#58;
fade screen in
#if you want an instant change, do&#58;
update palette
#and when you want to reset the palette in question&#58;
reset palette

If you're going this second method, it might be smart to organize your palette such that the color indexes the UI elements are using are separated out from the rest of the colors. If you go this route, the tweak palette() command has two extra additional values you can use to define what colors are being adjusted:

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tweak palette&#40;r,g,b,first palette index,last palette index&#41;