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dakkor
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:58 am 
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I want to make a game which looks like movie. So I wanna let it has a "letter box", two black sides on top and bottom of the main screen. And the dialogues put on the letter box, looks like a subtitle. How to do?
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:45 am 
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Just make the background and characters with those stripes and make the text box transparent.
Tada, there it is xD

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dakkor
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:50 am 
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well, but when the character images do some motion, there it isn't.
I think there should be a mask to make that
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:26 pm 
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According to Py'Tom in another thread [LINK], Ren'Py does this automatically if the aspect ration of the window doesn't match the aspect ration of the game.

Thus, if the game was made with a 16x9 ratio (such as 800x450) and then the window was resized to a typical 3x4 ratio (like 1024x768) then I think (if I understood correctly) it should add the letterbox automatically to compensate. The only way I can think of to do this is to make it run full-screen because while I can find "config.screen_width" for handling the game's screen-size, I can't find a matching one for setting the window size.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:23 pm 
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OK I got this... I now understand what you wanted to achieve...

What you need to do is declare a character like this...

Code:
$ n = Character(None, what_size=28, what_layout="subtitle", what_xalign=0.5, what_text_align=0.5, window_background=None, window_yminimum=0, window_xfill=False, window_xalign=0.5)


This basically tells ren'py to create a character that will say a dialogue without the textbox and centered... basically something that looked like a subtitle...

And then you use it like this...

Code:
n "Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
n "My guess is that when one really been far even as decided once to use even go want, it is then that he has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like." 


Also, you might want to post this in the ren'py specific section so others looking for ren'py specific thing will see this...

"POOF" (Disappears) :mrgreen:

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dakkor
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 2:22 pm 
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Well……it looks very nearly like what I want. But I also want to use character image, and there is still not a letterbox (I don't want to add black side to the backgrounds). So I use this:

Code:
Character('Allen', what_size=28, what_layout="subtitle", what_text_align=0.5, window_background="Frame.png", window_yminimum=0, window_xfill=True, window_xalign=0,window_yalign=0)


Frame.png is a letterbox mask.

then I found that the texts located at the left top. How to relocated it to the bottom?
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nyaatrap
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:27 pm 
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Code:
image letterbox = "lettterbox.png"

# The game starts here.
label start:
   
    show letterbox onlayer screen behind say

    e "You've created a new Ren'Py game."

How's this?
or you can define the letterbox screen and show it behind the say screen.

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dakkor
PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:05 am 
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nyaatrap wrote:
Code:
image letterbox = "lettterbox.png"

# The game starts here.
label start:
   
    show letterbox onlayer screen behind say

    e "You've created a new Ren'Py game."

How's this?
or you can define the letterbox screen and show it behind the say screen.


While running game code:
File "game/script.rpy", line 21, in script
Exception: Trying to add something to non-existent layer 'screen'.
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I think "onlayer screen" needs to be "onlayer screens." :)

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dakkor
PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:56 am 
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Arowana wrote:
I think "onlayer screen" needs to be "onlayer screens." :)

THX. That's OK.

mugenjohncel wrote:
OK I got this... I now understand what you wanted to achieve...

What you need to do is declare a character like this...

Code:
$ n = Character(None, what_size=28, what_layout="subtitle", what_xalign=0.5, what_text_align=0.5, window_background=None, window_yminimum=0, window_xfill=False, window_xalign=0.5)


This basically tells ren'py to create a character that will say a dialogue without the textbox and centered... basically something that looked like a subtitle...

And then you use it like this...

Code:
n "Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
n "My guess is that when one really been far even as decided once to use even go want, it is then that he has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like."


Also, you might want to post this in the ren'py specific section so others looking for ren'py specific thing will see this...

"POOF" (Disappears) :mrgreen:


And How to change the style of all say box? I don't want to write so many codes when I declare any new character.
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