a darker chat window background

[TribeofOne]

is there anyway through moding to make the chat window darker/less transparent? Ive seen mods for other games with similar background styles do it through anchoring a fake background to the chat window to make a cumulative darking effect.

anyone able to do this?

thanks

[Sasky]

I believe there's an option in Wykkyd's framework to put a chat background.
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info8...Framework.html

[TribeofOne]

Originally Posted by Sasky I believe there's an option in Wykkyd's framework to put a chat background. http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info8...Framework.html

thanks for the suggestion. I tried it and it doesn't darken the background it simply trims off some of the excess background around the edges.

[Sasky]

Sorry, I think I misread what you were asking for.

Don't think there are any existing addons that do that, but you could get it pretty easily.

Wykkyd's hides the default chat background and creates its own frame. If you turn on his frame in settings and un-hide the default, you'll get the double screening effect (image attached). Here's what you'd be looking at for code:

local function bginit()
    ZO_ChatWindowBg:SetHidden(false)
end
 
EVENT_MANAGER:RegisterForEvent("ChatBGInit", EVENT_PLAYER_ACTIVATED, bginit)

[TribeofOne]

Originally Posted by Sasky Sorry, I think I misread what you were asking for. Don't think there are any existing addons that do that, but you could get it pretty easily. Wykkyd's hides the default chat background and creates its own frame. If you turn on his frame in settings and un-hide the default, you'll get the double screening effect (image attached). Here's what you'd be looking at for code: local function bginit()     ZO_ChatWindowBg:SetHidden(false) end   EVENT_MANAGER:RegisterForEvent("ChatBGInit", EVENT_PLAYER_ACTIVATED, bginit)

thats perfect! thank you so much

[circonian]

I threw something together & posted it for you, hope it helps. Its called ChatIt. It doesn't do much, but it does what you asked for. You can toggle ON/OFF a secondary chat backdrop, adjust the alpha value of that backdrop so you can make the chat a little darker or a lot. It also has options to stop the chat window from fading, stop the text from fading, or just change the time delay & duration for text fading.
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info6...ansChatIt.html

[TribeofOne]

Great! just perfect! thanks!