Custom Main Menu for RPG Maker MZ
A downloadable Plugin
Unlike other Plugins that allow you to customize your game's main menu, this one comes packed with a UI tool that lets you see your changes instantly!
This Plugin is available for free!
Features
- More than 6 premade layout configurations
- ...or arrange all windows as you wish
- Choose how your Actors should be rendered: Face, SV Battler, Map Sprite, custom Portrait
- Choose how your Windows should be rendered: Default window, dimmed, custom image, or no background
- Choose a custom image instead for the background to replace the Map sprite
- Reposition Texts, set Font Sizes and Text Colors
- Gauge Colors
- Disable Touch UI entirely
- Disable RPG elements like level, class, or just everything — useful when making a horror or story game!
Reposition Texts, set Font Sizes and Text Colors!
Define the Gold Window's text to whatever you need, including the Map Name and Game Variables!
Re-arrange, add, and remove Command Buttons!
How it works
- Include this plugin in your game
- Start your game and open the main menu
- Press F9 (debug key) to open the new toolbox
Which engine(s) are supported?
This plugin supports RPG Maker MZ and RPG Maker MV. The MV code is still new, so it may contain errors and support fewer features than MZ.
I have a wish or suggestion
The best is when you make a draft of what it should look like in the game and how it should be represented in the tool.
Rules
- This plugin is available for free!
- Don't claim it as your own, and don't redistribute it. Just link to this page.
- Feel free to customize it to your needs, but rule 2 still applies.
Download
Click download now to get access to the following files:
Development log
- Font Sizes improved!12 days ago
- MV support, Touch UI, HP/MP/TP as Text41 days ago
- Menu Icons, Custom Commands, Playtime69 days ago
Comments
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Seems to be a problem with changing the ATB gauge colors.
It defaults to pink and reverts back and doesn't save.
and since it seems to override the window skin colors so its forcing me to use pink for the action battle gauge XD
Thanks for your report; I will check it
is there any plans to add more specific customization to the battle UI ? There's a real lack of battle UI plugins that have ease of use like this one.
I just made a google survey about this plugin; you can vote for the next scene here: https://forms.gle/w2tMaS9Mc7q1ZA678
So, this only works for the main menu scene?
It works wonders, but there's issues still with other scenes like the status scenes with scrunched UI.
This is good...
This, not so much...
Thanks for the hint and your screenshots! Very useful for me
The toolbox doesn't open on F9 (MZ)
The game doesn't give any errors, just nothing happens
Sorry to hear.
Can you please do the following?
Thank you for constantly working on it. I want to say your UI plugin is prob the only one that's approachable and reasonable for everyone to use, with ease. Managed to get most of my menus right, thanks to you.
I want to showcase 2 scenarios (the only two left in my case) I struggle with. First one, is ITEM-use and MAGIC use (both out of battle, in their respective menus). Before the update, it wasnt too bad. In fact it was the only flaw I was accepting (a foot backward) my game would be stucked with, as bad as it was. Let me show you (before update 1.2.1). As you can see, its not ideal...
Now this is the results of updating to 1.2.1. Ouch. xD
Okay, my second point. I use (as you can see above and below) a plugin for hand cursor. Your plugin necessitate careful balancing of size and margin, for it, as otherwise you risk clipping in SOME menus (even in-battle). I got it okay, I think. But see, if you go in a shop to try and buy you get the hand covering the numbers. xD Now you could argue its my fault for keeping the hand this big, but I made it this way so it would look best in the main menus... Let me show you what I mean below. A solution I'll try is finding a SHOP plugin which circumvents this with extra margin rules. Ill test a few.
Thats about it. Stats/skills are all nonsense for now, as its a thing Ill work on at the very end. Edit: One last thing. I got a plugin from ATT_Turan on the forum which allows me to see max values (like one of your update provided (TY for that)). Only, on that one's end, it doesnt squish numbers on item/status menus. Would you like me to share it with you?
Thank you for your feedback!
Anytime. As for the hand, I've NO CHOICE but to leave it as such. Reason is that Ive accounted for the margins. If I dont keep it that way, itll start clipping everywhere. TwT Let me show you examples:
Understood. Looks like the cursor is bound to the windows and so is its own z-index. I will try to improve that
Hi! One question, can this plugin be used to change options like "Status" or "Skills" and change them for other stuff?
Yes, you can rearrange, add, and remove menu commands
Hello, I'm writing to you to ask for your advice. I'm going to keep looking after leaving you this comment but I don't understand, on my side on MV it doesn't seem to work. I don't have any crashes or anything, it's just not happening. I've followed the instructions, launched my game, opened the menu and pressed F9 but nothing happens.
If you have any ideas, don't hesitate!
The best I can do for you, now, is:
Hello! i messed around with the option and broke something an now when i open my game the main menu has no option and when i press enter the game freezes. i tried redownloading it but it didnt work. is there a way to reset the parameters to default without opening the game?
thanks
Yes, delete the uicustom folder from your game's directory. The plugin will recreate it from 0 on next game start.
Amazing thanks! I have 2 more questions for you though. I dont see any option to choose what commands dont show up, I want to remove formation and save for example and second there seems to no option to change font sizes aside from player name and class and the plugin is overriding my normal font size selection. thanks
HI! I've encounter this while opening the menu of the project.
and here's the dev tool
OH! and pressing f9 opens only the Switch/variable menu, but probably that's just because of the error. Thank you in advance and hope you take your time :)
Try getting the latest version of my plugin, and updating the Core Scripts. You can do that in RPG Maker -> Game -> Update Core Scripts.
Hi, I love this plug-in!
I'm trying to customize it a bit more. Specifically, I want to be able to remove the "Formation" option from the menu since I'm making a single party member game. I've unticked the Formations option in System 2 settings but it's still showing up in the modified menu and I can't see how to add or disable new menu options.
Another thing I was wondering: Is it possible to get this plug-in to display custom menu options? I'm currently also using CGMZ_MenuCommandWindow to add js calls for Bestiary and Crafting menus, e.g. SceneManager.push(CGMZ_Scene_Encyclopedia); and SceneManager.push(CGMZ_Scene_Crafting);
Are these things that are possible now or maybe to be added in the future?
I've attached two pictures, one of the current default menu with custom Bestiary and Crafting options, and the other with my preferred layout using your tool. I'd like to be able to combine the two somehow so the custom menu commands are added and Formations is removed.
In the Plugin Manager, there's a whole tab for adding/removing commands :)
(Putting that into the app would be too complicated so I decided not to)
Ah, it was hidden in plain sight...
Thank you very much!
I see that the plugin is obfuscated, so it can't be edited?
The app window that opens when pressing F9 is protected, but the plugin itself (when you scroll down) is not.
Thank you for clarifying! :)
Hey! So I was able to load the plugin and mess around with it last night but now every time I open my project with it enabled it shows me this error message.
Hi CG249,
thanks for posting your message!
Can you please do the following for me?
If you want to reset my plugin because you cannot access the app anymore, please delete the uicustom folder from your game's directory. My plugin will rebuild it automatically.
Hey! I’m so sorry for getting back to you so late, I’ve had an internet outage and terrible storms in my area.
The version of RM I’m using is MZ
Thank you so much! It works perfectly again! I have one question that is a bit off-topic but would you happen to know a way I can edit the settings menu? I’d like to customize some of the options there, if not that is okay! This plugin is amazing!
I think http://www.yanfly.moe/wiki/Options_Core_VisuStella_MZ is a nice candidate
I love this, i just wish i could use it on the title menu, as well as the sub menus for items and equipment and such.
Item Scene is already in development ;)
Yeah, my bad.. i wrote that message here before i realized you were in the RPG Maker Forums, and i asked about it again.
This is a really wonderful plugin! The inclusion of that editor is A+ effort and makes it so much more effective than others I've tried. I saw you're working on making versions of this for other menus, and I can't wait to see them after using this one.
I think the only thing I would love to have right now that I don't: a way to make the option which sets the number of columns to be the same as the number of actors in party also adjust the width of the actor window. I'm using the override window size options, so I would need a way to make it a static value that it adds/removes width by. My game mostly only has 2 party members, but you occasionally get a third, so I would love to be able to get rid of that extra unused space most of the time.
Hi, thanks for your suggestion.
Well, I'm uncertain whether I can include such a feature in my code. You would probably be better off adding another plugin that overrides what this plugin is doing. This plugin can have any name and needs to be put below the customizer plugin.
This is the code, assuming you are using MZ.
Scene_Menu.prototype.statusWindowRect = function() { return new Rectangle( 0, // x value 0, // y value 400 * $gameParty.members().length, // replace 400 with any number Graphics.boxHeight - 50, // height ); }Thanks so much for the reply and the code! I appreciate it. :)
doesnt seem to work for me
You get an error message? A screenshot? Come on, I cannot help you when you don't tell me what's exactly is not working in your project.
When do you think this could be available for MV? Also, could you add a feature that allows you to set the maximum HP visible as well as the current HP? And maybe an option to remove gauges entirely or at least make them invisible?
Yes, displaying HP/MP/TP as text has already been suggested a few times and is already in the making.
An MV version may come eventually, or not - I tried to make a decent MV patch (you can see my attempts in the code), but the code structures of MZ/MV have so many tiny differences that, in MV, my plugin has a much higher risk of breaking your game when it has other plugins.
Thank you so much for this wonderful plugin!
I always wanted to set up a menu for my game, but doing it blindly was very difficult. A great tool that helps me a lot in my work in the maker.
For me this is the best plugin for working with menus!
Would love to try this, but I get the TypeError 'this.testHieght' is not a function when attempting to open the menu.
Sorry to hear.
Can you please do the following?
Additionally, try disabling all other plugins and starting my plugin again. Maybe there's an incompatibility with another plugin because neither "testHieght" nor "testHeight" is part of my code nor the RPG Maker's core code.
Sure. This is what the error message looks like. Also, before sending this, I did try your suggestion and disabling plugins, to the point that I disabled ALL of them to see if it would work, and I still ended up getting an error message.
Can you please try my plugin in a fresh new project?
From the screenshot, it looks like my plugin is not yet compatible with LL_MenuScreenCustom and/or NUUN_GaugeValueAnimation.
Unfortunately, I cannot find LL_MenuScreenCustom to inspect its code.
Trying it in a fresh new project does make it work. As I mentioned before, when I disable all of my plugins, this is the message I get. I apologize if I wasn't clear on that. If you like, I can give you a copy of the two plugins that caused an issue in the previous message.
Well, the error is the same, but the trace (the lines of code) are now different. Interesting. Thanks for the screenshot.
Yeah you can send me the 2 plugins via mail@aerosys.blog thank you
It's a Japanese plugin https://nine-yusha.com/plugin-menuscreencustom/
Thanks Aqua!
We already found out, the actual problem was that OP used an older core version. My plugin will now check for the version of the core code and prompt the player to update it when it's not up to date.
Looooooove it, are you thinking to create more like this for the others menus? Like save menu, equipment or others. I will definitely recommend this to each game developer. 🤩
Yes, the Item Scene is already in development. It will contain features such as move or skip category selection, a custom description window to replace the small help window, and a grid instead of the list view.
Honestly a great plugin! I love how you can COMPLETELY BLANK OUT the gauges for good. <3 Would it be possible to add a TEXT SIZE for HP/MP as well? Seems to be the only parameter where its not possible for the main menu. Found a bug: When using the formation menu, and swapping positions, the characters's portraits gets hard-printed into the menu (until refreshed by going into another sub-menu like "EQUIP" for example). EDIT: I cant seem to replicate it anymore.
Side ask: Would it be possible to have numerical values shown, as an option, for HP and MP in the main menus - and if so, to have it re-aligned with the HP and MP letters as well? 🦇 Thanks. If not doable, its fine - I got a plugin for that (minus alignment).
Yes, I can do that!
First, fantastic plugin! Second, quick question: Is it at all possible to change the layout configuration mid-game using plugin commands? As in going from one premade layout to another?
No that's not possible. Why do you need to do that? Maybe I can add such feature but then I need to understand better what you're picturing for your game.
Basically, in my game I'm featuring different presentations (like going from modern to16-bit and back again) and I'd like to change things around visually for the menu per each different presentation. I figured it wouldn't be possible, but I figured why not ask? Anyway, thanks for the plugin! :)
This will be incredibly helpful, I always spend way too much time trying to make menues look unique but my lacking knowledge in coding and such makes it such a struggle.
Damn, this is so many plugins put into one o.O
This is amazing as always Aerosys! Thank you !!
I found a small issue, but I'm not sure if it's from your plugin or something else; though, it clears up when turning off your plugin. When going to a shop, the map name shows up next to the gold:
https://gyazo.com/08b8955e611f603263e0058b61339df9
Thanks for your report. True, the problem is very likely in my code, and I will fix it as soon as possible!
This is amazing, thank you so much! Works fantastic, super easy to figure out and everything.
Just a couple questions: Is there a way to show the current playtime along with the map and currency, and if so, how? If not, is that a feature you might be willing to add? I understand it's a free plugin, and may not be something you wish to prioritize, and that's fine!
Other question; how would I get the custom character portrait (in this case a vertical full body image) to show in the Status screen? There doesn't seem to be ways to customize anything but the initial menu. Although, I do use VS Core, and I've got your plugin at the bottom of the list where I should hope it's overriding everything, but I know some settings will still fudge each other.
Playtime is not supported right now, but I can add it as an update as an extra command like \MN; it should not be too difficult.
Yes, right now, it only lets you manipulate the main menu and some global settings, such as Left/Right input for example. I can't say for now if custom portraits for other menus will be supported soon; I like your suggestion, but it might be more complex than adding the playtime, for example.
Understood! Thank you, and I appreciate your quick response.
You're handing out this glorious gift to us peasants for free?!?! thank you my lord!!!
This plugin is really amazing! Like your other plugins, it is very useful and easy to learn. Thanks for sharing this awesome plugin! :D