r/RenPy

I'm a newbie, as if that's not obvious by my question 😭

I just want to know how to make objects clickable. Imagine Purble Place or old Room-Escape games. Point and click style !!! (I am also aware there are better engines for point-and-click styled games, but I'm still making a visual novel and just want to include clickable segments in my game.) I'm not sure if my attention span just isn't clicking or what, but I can not understand the tutorials for the life of me. I'm hoping someone has more direct, clear instructions?

Let's say, as an example, I have a bottle of ketchup and an empty bun. By clicking the ketchup, the bun is now ketchup'ed. This is all I really need to understand to start building on all the projects I want, but I need to actually know how to do it first. Sorry for the ramblings, and thank you VERY very much if you have any input!

Full disclosure, this is mainly something I'm just tinkering with because I'm bored and it keeps my python knowledge fresh.

So I've managed to get full functionality for the dice roller and integrated all roll types into it. Also made damage tracking for health and WP (with the help of a very lovely person on the wod discord for the font), ability to rouse rolls and spend WP to reroll. Every roll can have 5 possible outcomes.

Also built the character sheet and added a tooltip to give a brief explanation of each section (an idea I admittedly ripped from bloodlines because its great).

Now, I'm acutely aware that the sounds I'm using for roll results aren't great, nor are the backgrounds or art. That's because I have 0 artistic talent when it comes to sound engineering or visual artwork. I'm also pretty bad at UI design in general. With that in mind, I'm looking to get some feedback if possible. Including systems to add into this project or tweaks to the UI to make it infinitely better.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

my current script

im super new to renpy, could someone help asap?

i'm following a renpy basic tutorial and im trying to make a black screen where it's a narration only, but i keep getting the (:) colon error message when i run my game. any help>?

https://preview.redd.it/kbdj26cpubtg1.png?width=759&format=png&auto=webp&s=401e3a2060a7969e651030f9a1059dbaebfa53df

I'm trying to make the player's choice in the game to be interactive with image buttons instead of menu choices. I was able to figure that part out by creating screens with image buttons, but now I'd like to set conditions to these "screen" choices.

I'd like to set a condition where the player cannot advance in the game unless all areas of the room have been interacted with.

It's been really hard to figure out. Any help is appreciated. I'll share the code if it helps as well.

Hi,

I posted about my phone chat system here about a week ago

https://i.redd.it/z67iqu0xm7tg1.gif

and got some feedback. I want to share what changed.

What the community pointed out:

- The Excel-based workflow felt like learning a custom language

- Free alternatives already exist for Ren'Py

- The barrier to try it was too high

What I did about it:

You can now write conversations directly using clean functions; no spreadsheet needed if you prefer to code for example:

$ phone_conversation(

npc_reply="Hey, are you free tonight?",

choices=[

phone_choice("Yeah! What's up?", "label_yes"),

phone_choice("Not sure yet.", "label_unsure"),

],

chat_id="Alex",

avatar="images/alex/profile.png",

)

Group chats. Multiple characters in the same thread, each with their own avatar and dialogue.

https://preview.redd.it/jhg6u3p2p7tg1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=d95fdbdeb09f8b579882e25d254791abb9df55df

Now free (Pay what you want). The Excel import is still available for writers who prefer that workflow.

I know there are other phone systems in the community and that's a good thing. More options mean more tools for developers to choose from. This one is designed to be quick to integrate and flexible in how you write your story. If it fits your workflow, great. If not, no hard feelings; the more phone systems for VNs, the better. 🙂

If you tried it before and had doubts, now there's no risk to check it out. And if you have more feedback, I'm listening.

Demo and download: https://alphonsinious.itch.io/phone-chat-system-renpy

Hey guys! So, I have another question to ask!

So in my visual novel, I have a functioning Day/Night cycle and days of the week with the NPCS changing locations throughout the day/week, and I have these placeholder squares to show the player where the NPCS are currently residing (I'll be updating the squares with chibi icons of the characters in due time!). I'm using a grid to set this up. It works, but is there a way to shift the displayed squares over to the open spaces automatically? I'd like the squares to be closer together and not spaced out like that. I'll also provide the code to show you my work.

This is the college campus on Monday afternoon (For context for the code, Monday is dayofweeknumber 1.)

Thanks in advance!

https://preview.redd.it/gcykn629k9tg1.png?width=421&format=png&auto=webp&s=5e2218b892fddb633015ebe96244c70467301699

 ######Afternoon#####
    ##Campus
    frame:
        background None
        grid 3 2:
            transpose True
            xpos 1100
            ypos 250
            if dayofweeknumber in range (1,4) and energy in range(7,10):
                add "gui/button/check_selected_foreground.png" xalign 0.2 yalign 0.3 #Marine, With Graham
            else:
                null
            if dayofweeknumber == 2 and energy in range(7,10):
                add "gui/button/check_selected_foreground.png" xalign 0.2 yalign 0.3 #Serena
            else:
                null
            if dayofweeknumber in range (1,3) and energy in range(7,10):
                add "gui/button/check_selected_foreground.png" xalign 0.2 yalign 0.3 #Cameron
            else:
                null
            if dayofweeknumber in range(4,6) and energy in range(7,10):
                add "gui/button/check_selected_foreground.png" xalign 0.2 yalign 0.3 #Grinn
            else:
                null
            if energy in range(7,10) and dayofweeknumber in range (3,5):
                add "gui/button/check_selected_foreground.png" xalign 0.2 yalign 0.3 #Reyin
            else:
                null
            if energy in range(7,10) and dayofweeknumber == 4:
                add "gui/button/check_selected_foreground.png" xalign 0.2 yalign 0.3 #Syd
            else:
                null

(This is a continuation of my last post)

https://preview.redd.it/hmystfyx73tg1.png?width=391&format=png&auto=webp&s=36c67ca9dee39bc660f958680429e8b1c31251ac

So im trying to use the files above in renpy to make a model!! however i suck at coding and also went about this in the most inefficient way when making the model. I had to recode the model3.json to include the motions and tried to include that code in the script. But i keep getting errors saying idle_reg or talk_reg (etc etc) is not a known attribute and i have NOO IDEA what to do.

btw the files above are in the game/images folder.

so here's my script.rpy :

https://preview.redd.it/q82dg0as73tg1.png?width=659&format=png&auto=webp&s=0caed5e3bb0ec25c273edf839779ce284a69b6e4

heres my model3.json code:

https://preview.redd.it/dvc10htv73tg1.png?width=965&format=png&auto=webp&s=03095d1e4cdecc43da4ba29a77c688d7160d73a1

tysm for reading all this and hopefully something works

Hiii yall, I have a dialouge option that already has a condition that makes it appear if I choose it. But I want the option to disapear after I choose it. This is like a game u have to go thru memories and go back to a dialouge that lets you choose the next memory you go to. And they are meant to disapear after you choose them. idk if I explaiend that well but its irelevent.

I need the 'figure in the wall' section to disapear after I click on it, how could I do this :) while still being an option that appears after a SEPERATE condition is met earlier in the game.

ty for the help!

            "Resting" if not skipclass:
                $ skipclass = True
                jump skipclass
            
            "Figure in the Hall" if purplerosary:
                    $ sybylsilly = True


                    jump sybylsilly

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idk what other flair to use, but me and a friend are making a VN, currently we're only brainstorming and getting the story together and everything, we have a writer, an artist, music, voice actors, the only thing we're missing is how to make a site for it, including how to save, adjust settings, ect, so if any of you have any tutorials or are willing to help plz lmk

como vocês podem ver no titulo tô criando um script de tradução de jogos renpy no mobile porém tô tendo um problema com a velocidade de tradução que está terrivelmente lenta estou usando uma fonte não oficial do google tradutor no sei se é normal ou não alguém pode me ajudar? mando o código para conferir se precisar ou foto

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