Dynamic Menu Overhaul

Completely customize your Pause Menu layout.

Menus can optionally run in Real Time, similar to Dark Souls/Elden Ring.

All pause menus no longer have a background image, allowing you to see the game world behind the menus.

- HOW IT WORKS -

Player inputs are blocked while an unpaused menu is open. You won't draw your weapon, jump, or move.

The gameworld and all of its actions will continue in the background while an unpaused menu is open.

Enemies will move and attack, NPC's go about their business, and time will pass you by.

THIS MOD ALSO FIXES THE MENU FPS BUG!

The features of Menu Performance Bug Fix are fully included in this mod.

They are NOT compatible with each other. DO NOT run both mods simultaneously.

Vocation Guild and other Menus no longer render character mockups.

This solves the performance problem of the vanilla menu system entirely!

Pausing the game is no longer a guaranteed safe option!

You cannot save yourself from damage and spam curatives in your Inventory.

Using items in battle from the menu requires planning, caution, and some good luck.

Carelessly pulling out your Map in a dungeon to find your way may instead spell your end.

Deliberating which Quest your party should proceed with will cost you time, a valuable resource in this world....

TRANSPARENT MENUS

This feature allows you to see the gameworld actively running behind the UI elements by eliminating the vanilla menu backgrounds.

You can also resize and reposition the interface, allowing you to "attach" it to yourself in-game, like in the mod's thumbnail image.

Equipment changes happen live, so changing your gear is immediately represented in-game on your character.

POSITION AND SCALE

There are two "Presets" included in the mod - Arry's Menu Preset and Vanilla Menu Preset.

My preset is what is visible in the screenshots, and is highly functional for real-time combat and general visibility.

It was created at 2880x1620 so it may not look good if you're on a different resolution.

If you want to start from scratch on your own, hit the Vanilla Menus Preset button to reset the menus to default.

Every element that the game considers a distinct "panel" can be moved and scaled. You are free to reorganize the menu as you see fit.

FAUX BACKDROPS

In order to get a bit more definition and visibility on the menus, I created a simple imGUI based "Backdrop" system.

My personal preset comes complete with premade faux backdrops!

These are NOT rendered behind the vanilla UI. They are ON TOP, and thus need alpha set fairly low.

Backdrops are meant to simply add a bit of contrast to the menus to help visibility.

They are 100% customizable in scale, position, color and transparency - rework them as you see fit.

This mod is NOT compatible with Menu Performance Bug Fix.

The same feature is included in Real Time Menus by default.

Use only one of these mods at a time!

REQUIRES REFramework

Install it like any other REFramework mod by putting the RealtimeMenus.lua in reframework/autorun OR use Fluffy.

Huge thank you to SonicaKP for helping to expand on and improve my original Real Time Menus mod. She discovered the core transparent menu functionality and created the menu resize functions and helped me troubleshoot many performance and state machine issues. Go give all of her mods a download and an endorsement!