Block continue or click

[bluna]

How do you make it so throughout a certain portion of the code, the player cannot click or skip what is currently going on? I'm trying to make it so a certain part of the scene happens and match it up right with the music; But it won't flow right if the player skips through this portion, or opens the menue? How do i make it so that can't happen?

[nyaatrap]

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$config.skipping = None
$config.rollback_enabled = False
$_game_menu_screen = None
#block of scene codes here
$renpy.pause(time, hard=True)

Don't forget to redeem rollback and game_menu later.

[bluna]

Ah, ok. So say i have a sequence of things i want to happen, i put that before it, and when i want to give the player the ability to click and play again, i put that same code, but set them to true?
(kinda new to this)

[Gear]

I tried the code, but it didn't work for me; I didn't get any errors, but my sequence could still be interrupted by a mouse click. Adding the pause at the end only seems to make a hard pause you can't click past AFTER the section you're trying to make uninterruptible, unless I'm doing something wrong here.

[nyaatrap]

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config.rollback_enabled = True
_game_menu_screen = "save_screen"

is what you need to write later.

Also, you can't use say dialogues. If you need to show text, you need to use text displayables instead.
To do a complete auto advance requires several advanced knowledge on ren'py.

[nyaatrap]

Lol I find a way to disable leftclick on say dialogue:

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screen disable_leftclick:
    key "mousedown_1" action With(None)

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label ending:
   show screen disble_leftclick
   "auto message{w=3}{nw}" 

I don't know if there is some side effect

[bluna]

Hmm..this doesn't seem to be doing what i'm trying to do; the first code didn't work for me either.

Is there a way i could just simply disable any input whatsoever and then enable it again later in the script?
Sorry for the bouncing back and forth.

[apricotorange]

The way Ren'Py works, there isn't really any global switch to turn off keyboard/mouse processing.

The way to suppress processing of all keyboard/mouse input for a specific message is something like this:

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    $ narrator("You can't get rid of this message!", interact=False)
    $ ui.pausebehavior(5)
    $ ui.interact(suppress_overlay = True, suppress_underlay = True)

(This is similar to the first suggestion, but a bit more thorough, and hopefully a bit more clear.)

I wouldn't recommend it unless it's truly necessary, though: disabling access to menus etc. is really annoying for users.

[nyaatrap]

I like ren'py doesn't provide an easy way to stop interacts. People always use it in a frustrated way and its result is just annoy players. I only block it to execute high speed animation correctly.

[bluna]

Hmm, i see. Is pause behavior the only type of code that can prevent keyboard/mouse input?

If so, how would you implement it for a scripted sequence?
The thing is, with a hard pause like that, it stops any progress for images, transitions, or any type of code to progress; when the goal is to allow the code to progress, but disable the user from skipping or interrupting it until a specified point in the script.

I apologize if i'm being redundant and stubborn, but is there really no way around this? I see things like this happen in VNs all the time; it just seems like a simple thing to do.

I understand that this might be annoying for users to not be able to skip, but is that a reason to have the player miss out on an experience you, the developer, want them to experience? It only happens once in the entire VN, so its not something i plan to be continuous.

[apricotorange]

You can implement complex scripted sequence using ATL: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/atl.html .

[bluna]

I see...thanks for the the help. It doesn't solve my problem, but i'll see if i can work around it.