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MADO Window Builder not displaying body and other problems.

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  • Original title: MADO Window Builder not displaying body and other problems.
  • Original author: FallenVixen
  • Original date: January 6, 2022
  • Source thread: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/threads/mado-window-builder-not-displaying-body-and-other-problems.143660/
  • Source forum path: Game Development Engines > Legacy Engine Support > RPG Maker MV Support

Summary

First off, for whatever reason the body color will always display black even if you've changed the hue. I guessed that maybe it was because of the layout that MADO creates and how it's different, but no, even if i change the part of the skin that would've originally been the window color, it still won't detect it (If i resize the window skin to the default layout it'll just entirely delete the body and leave it transparent too). So this is what my window skin looks like (showing only...

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So i bought MADO maybe less than a couple weeks ago, so far it's been relatively okay, but i've noticed quite a few problems. Bear with me a bit here.

First off, for whatever reason the body color will always display black even if you've changed the hue. I guessed that maybe it was because of the layout that MADO creates and how it's different, but no, even if i change the part of the skin that would've originally been the window color, it still won't detect it (If i resize the window skin to the default layout it'll just entirely delete the body and leave it transparent too).

So this is what my window skin looks like (showing only the left side as i don't want my skin to be publicly accessible cause it's edited):

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MADO doesn't seem to actually touch the upper left corner where the body of windows would usually be, instead it creates a way bigger section and uses it differently.
But as both here are blue anyways, IN THEORY, it should display blue in-game.
Yet, for whatever reason, this is what it actually looks like when playtesting:

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It's black. Where did the color go??
The color will only display right in the title screen, but everywhere else it just went to buy milk and never came back.

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I'm also aware that MADO doesn't really like it when you use plugins that edit the windows as well and won't display them unless you change the default window.png file, so i did it accordingly, yet... Same problem of black body, and on the main menu that i've edited through plugins, it also won't properly display the cursor highlight.

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It just displays a single line at the bottom of text instead of highlighting the whole box like it otherwise should.
Highlight will work fine everywhere else, it's just the main menu.

Arrows also just don't display on choice windows at all (unless i'm misunderstanding what arrows even do):

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(Please ignore the text, i'm testing that the windows work and my game is about a cat, i just keysmashed stuff in:LZSlol:)


Now, i get that sometimes plugins might cause problems like these, so here's the list of plugins i'm using, they're ones that asked me for MADO in the first place, being the reason why i got it:

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So like, okay, deactivate them to make sure that all of these problems aren't because of my other plugins, but even then...

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Cursor highlight is back, but body color is still entirely gone.

I'm stumped here, I don't wanna get rid of MADO because as i said the plugins i'm using ask for the altwindowframe.js plugin to work (also spent money), but this is kind of being a pain and they don't seem to be uncommon issues from what i've seen around.
If anyone could help me sort all of this stuff out it would be greatly appreciated.

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