Instant GUI Customize!
Plugin Instructions
1. Introduction
Here you’ll find step-by-step guides on how to customize your menu screens using the Instant GUI Customize Plugin. This document will not feature details or explanations and it’s instead suggested as a reference or quick guide for those who already understand how the Plugin works. It is recommended you check the Walkthrough here for any doubts you may have as to how everything works.
2. Importing the Plugin
- Extract the provided .zip file into a folder
- Open the project’s “game” folder
- Copy the contents from the Plugin’s folder into the “game” directory
- Override any files if asked
3. Exporting images for use with focus_mask
- Create a new image of the size of the project’s screen
- Create your own menu designs
- Isolate an element (background, overlay, button, etc.)
- Export said element as an image file the size of your canvas
- Replace the respective image in the project’s gui folder
- Repeat for each element in a given screen
4. Main Menu button file names
Action | Idle file name | Hover file name |
Start | mm_start_idle.png | mm_start_hover.png |
Load | mm_load_idle.png | mm_load_hover.png |
Options | mm_pref_idle.png | mm_pref_hover.png |
About | mm_about_idle.png | mm_about_hover.png |
Help | mm_help_idle.png | mm_help_hover.png |
Quit | mm_quit_idle.png | mm_quit_hover.png |
5. Quick Menu button file names
Action | Idle file name | Hover file name |
Back | qm_back_idle.png | qm_back_hover.png |
History | qm_history_idle.png | qm_history_hover.png |
Skip (w/ selected) | qm_skip_idle.png qm_skip_selected_idle.png | qm_skip_hover.png qm_skip_selected_hover.png |
Auto (w/ selected) | qm_auto_idle.png qm_auto_selected_idle.png | qm_auto_hover.png qm_auto_selected_hover.png |
Save | qm_save_idle.png | qm_save_hover.png |
Options | qm_pref_idle.png | qm_pref_hover.png |
6. Game Menu button file names
Action | Idle file name | Selected Idle file name | Hover file name |
Options | gm_pref_idle.png | gm_pref_selected_idle.png | gm_pref_hover.png |
Save | gm_save_idle.png | gm_save_selected_idle.png | gm_save_hover.png |
Load | gm_load_idle.png | gm_load_selected_idle.png | gm_load_hover.png |
History | gm_history_idle.png | gm_history_selected_idle.png | gm_history_hover.png |
About | gm_about_idle.png | gm_about_selected_idle.png | gm_about_hover.png |
Help | gm_help_idle.png | gm_help_selected_idle.png | gm_help_hover.png |
Exit | gm_exit_idle.png | gm_exit_selected_idle.png | gm_exit_hover.png |
7. Game Menu overlay file names
Screen / Tab | Overlay file name |
Options | overlay_pref.png |
Save | overlay_save.png |
Load | overlay_load.png |
History | overlay_history.png |
About | overlay_about.png |
Help | overlay_help.png |
Get Instant GUI Customize!
Instant GUI Customize!
A Ren'py GUI overhaul plugin. Bypass the tedious coding, quickly implement your custom design now!
| Status | Released |
| Category | Assets |
| Authors | ErebusWulfe, Cardigan |
| Genre | Visual Novel |
| Tags | Asset Pack, Graphical User Interface (GUI), Ren'Py |
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- Plugin Walkthrough5 days ago
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