Is it possible to have a standalone messagebox background?

[BoneTongue]

Im making a mod that adds carriage stops to skyrim, and its basically done, just needs polishing.

One idea that ive had is rather than having the ugly traditional messagebox pop up, i would rather it show something other than that while still having normal messagebox functionality. 
Is it possible to change the background, and if so, how would i go about doing this?

Edited June 21 by BoneTongue
figured out how to do dropdowns

[Pickysaurus]

On 6/21/2024 at 6:51 AM, BoneTongue said:

Im making a mod that adds carriage stops to skyrim, and its basically done, just needs polishing.

One idea that ive had is rather than having the ugly traditional messagebox pop up, i would rather it show something other than that while still having normal messagebox functionality. 
Is it possible to change the background, and if so, how would i go about doing this?

I used a "cheat" like this for Legacy of the Dragonborn. You can have a talking activator and use the dialogue menu to present a list of options. Kinda like how the carriage drivers work currently but without needing an actual NPC or any voice work. 

[PeterMartyr]

SkyUILib or UIExtensions, there may be more too that I am unaware of 

SkyUILib is is distributable so you can included in your mod     SkyUILib

UIExtension is the better of the two but NOT distributable, you need to add it has a master     UIExtensions

If you looking at something like drop down menu look at UIExtensions List Menu, it is brilliant but can be problematic depending  on your coding level, and can have children too (FYI contain other lists)

But both support List Menus without the need to fake it

EDIT I base my reply on @Pickysaurus but upon further contemplation, you just want to verbose you've arrived, with no user input,  do you not? NO there no way to dress up the vanilla message box that is standalone to your mod 

[xkkmEl]

One could use a note instead of a message box.

You can dress up the content of the note as you wish, with images and dynamic text. The note itself does not need to be in the player's inventory or reachable at all, even though the player may expect it to be).

[PeterMartyr]

Just a heads up for any looking to mod a skyrim menu, you will find it has the extension swf  that stands for Shock Wave File,  let me be more specific, it is an Adobe Shock Wave File. You will find more information about how to edit a such a file with a simple search using your favourite search engine than you find in these Forums, this is not a Modding Skyrim question, but a how to edit or create an adobe product question, treat it as such and you will find the answers you seek.

 

 

 

[dylbill]

Agreed, there are 2 ways I can think of to make a custom background message box. One is to make a new custom menu by creating or editing a .swf file in Adobe Flash. 

I do this with my mod Extended Vanilla Menus: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/67946?tab=description and there is flash source available for download.

Or, you could possibly make a new menu with an skse plugin. The wheeler mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/97345?tab=description Adds a new ui menu with only skse. The source is also on github: https://github.com/D7ry/wheeler

[dylbill]

Another option, if you don't want to make a new menu, is to recommend to download a replacer ui mod such as Dear Diary - Paper SkyUI Menus Replacer SE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/23010?tab=files