How do I add an outline to text? (SOLVED)

[Cululush]

Hello.
I'm new to this program, and I was planning on making a short VN.
I have gone through most of the tutorial and I know pretty much all I need at the moment, except for one thing.
I have made a transparent background so that it would'nt block the image(I want it to be all across the screen), but now I can't see the text, due to having similar colour with the images.
I want to make a black outline for white text, so that it's visible. I've searched around, and I've seen some explanations, but I didn't quite understand what I'm supposed to do.
I want the outline to be on ALL the text. I don't mind not having it on buttons, though.
So, what is the easiest way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

[tuna_sushi]

If you want to outline the character's name, put

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who_outlines=[ (1, "#282") ]

if you want to outline the text as in.... the text (?) put

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what_outlines=[ (1, "#282") ]

[Cululush]

Errrr, I'm sorry, I'm gonna need more than that...
I need to know where to put it and how it works.
Sorry, kinda new to this...
And I need both.

[tuna_sushi]

Sorry for not being clear...

You will have to put it like this:

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# Declare characters used by this game.
define a = Character("Alice", color="#ffffff", who_outlines=[ (1, "##FF00FF") ], what_outlines=[ (1, "##FF00FF") ])

it will look like this (don't mind the pics ^_^" )

[Cululush]

Ugh...
Well, I did exactly as you said, I practically copied it and just changed the name.
The game works, but the moment it gets to a character with outline, it says the following:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/script.rpy", line 40, in script
anon "Hi, /a/. Here's something I've put together to brighten your day (hopefully)."
File "template/game/screens.rpy", line 26, in python
text who id "who"
Exception: Color string must be 3, 4, 6, or 8 hex digits long.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\execution.py", line 261, in run
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\ast.py", line 396, in execute
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\exports.py", line 696, in say
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\character.py", line 770, in __call__
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\character.py", line 664, in do_display
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\character.py", line 450, in display_say
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\character.py", line 648, in do_show
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\character.py", line 263, in show_display_say
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\display\screen.py", line 562, in get_widget
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\display\screen.py", line 244, in update
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\screenlang.py", line 1166, in __call__
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\python.py", line 978, in py_exec_bytecode
File "template/game/screens.rpy", line 26, in <module>
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\ui.py", line 435, in __call__
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\text\text.py", line 1017, in __init__
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\display\core.py", line 127, in __init__
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\style.py", line 810, in __init__
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\style.py", line 629, in build_style
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\style.py", line 514, in expand_properties
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\style.py", line 91, in expand_outlines
File "C:\Users\Asher\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX76.42292\renpy-6.13.7\renpy\easy.py", line 65, in color
Exception: Color string must be 3, 4, 6, or 8 hex digits long.

Windows-post2008Server-6.1.7601-SP1
Ren'Py 6.13.7.1646
A Ren'Py Game 0.0

Also, the game is mostly based on narration, so, is it possible to outline that too(Meaning - Do I have to make a character for that too?)?
What I really need is ALL the text outlined(In a solid black colour for everything). Is it possible to make the entire text outlined, without having to define every character with it?

P.S. I don't mind the pic, everyone and their style, and I don't think I'd personally be able to come up with anything better XD
P.S.S. sorry for the hassle>_> Really newbin' around.

[DragoonHP]

Remove a # from "##FF00FF"

[Cululush]

Hey, thanks! that worked.
Now just one last thing: How do I add an outline to text which isn't said by any character(as in narration)?
Is it possible?

[TsukiShima]

Hey, thanks! that worked.
Now just one last thing: How do I add an outline to text which isn't said by any character(as in narration)?
Is it possible?

It's like how tuna_sushi did, only if you want only the narrator to have it, you should declare the it as a character as well.

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# Declare characters used by this game.
define n = Character("", color="#ffffff", who_outlines=[ (1, "##FF00FF") ], what_outlines=[ (1, "##FF00FF") ])

[Cululush]

Thanks a lot!!! It works.
Thank you, everyone. That's all I needed.

[Kieron80]

put this in your script, where you define your characters etc.

define gui.dialogue_text_outlines = [ (0, "#00000080", 2, 2) ]
define gui.charaters_text_outlines = [ (0, "#00000080", 2, 2) ]

[bDunks]

put this in your script, where you define your characters etc.

define gui.dialogue_text_outlines = [ (0, "#00000080", 2, 2) ]
define gui.charaters_text_outlines = [ (0, "#00000080", 2, 2) ]

It's actually
define gui.name_text_outlines = [ (0, "#00000080", 2, 2) ]
Not characters.
Thanks for the info. Helped me out.

For anybody new, like me, here is some additional info.

Value 1 - Stroke/Outline
Value 2 - Color
Value 3 - X
Value 4 - Y

3 & 4 are for creating a drop shadow effect.
If I am wrong on this, feel free to correct me.

[Watercolorheart]

How do I add an outline to interface text?

[gummii_exe]

How do I add an outline to interface text?

To do this, you would copy the same line of code as before, but change gui.name_text_outlines to gui.interface_text_outlines. For a lot of elements of Ren'Py, this same general rule of thumb applies.

[m_from_space]

You just answered a question of 2020 in a thread that was started 2011. xD