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Oh boy...XD ah, time for me to show my code inept side again.

Basically, I'm planning to use a counter to keep track of how many endings/scenes (I'm still debating which, but this can be easily changed as I go.) have been seen, in oder to tell how much of the game has been beaten.

That much I've got figured out. However, I'd like to be able to display it somewhere, preferably the main menu, so the player can gauge their progress. I'm just not sure how to do this.

Bearing in mind too that..I haven't made a game in a while, and some of the changes made to Renpy are throwing me for a loop right now. xD;

This isn't totally essential, so I won't be too hurt if it doesn't work out, but it'd be a very appreciated feature. c:

Thanks~

Are you using screens for the main menu? If so, it's pretty easy to add - you can use a bar or a text for this, which would you prefer?

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Yes, I am using screens, since I'm basically just using a test project to get this figured out for the real thing. Though I haven't done a renpy project since 6.10, so I am still getting used to it. XD

As for bar or text, I have no preference. c: I guess a bar would look more appealing.

Sorry to intrude, but how about a bar with text? How would that be done?

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Couldn't you just wait until someone answered my question? ._.; This is basically the same thing I asked.

Erm, I'm sorry. I guess I was hoping that someone would answer it at the same time, since most threads tend to be forgotten once somebody answers one question.

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All right, don't anybody get moody. Here's how you display text and bars in SL ...

Let's show text+bar on the main menu. Find "screen main_menu" in screens.rpy (newer Ren'Py games only). We're going to add the text widget and the bar widget at the bottom left corner.

First, I make a vbox, so that I can show the Text on top of the Bar (or visa versa). I make sure to add the positional properties under the vbox to place these widgets where I want them on the main menu. I make sure that the vbox is aligned so that it is not inside of any other widget (like the navigation's frame).

Under that, I add my Text and Bar widgets in their simplest forms. I'm assuming that you are keeping count of the number of endings in a variable that is a number. In this example, it is called endings_seen, and I put a fake maximum of 5 total. The default would be 0, and you would count up for each ending seen, optimally. If you're doing this another way, tell me.

Anyway, here's my finished example (new stuff is in the bottom vbox):

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That looks perfect, thanks! and yes, that's actually exactly what I'm doing. The number variable is initially stored as 0, and counted up at the end of each route, after checking to see if that route hasn't already been cleared.

ah, and problem. .v.;;; I'm testing the actual "having the ending count go up in the script and updating the display" portion. and it seems if it's defined in the script, it won't be in the main menu, and vice versa. It seems like it should be able to look in the script, am I missing something here?

ORZ I'm sorry. I'm kind of dumb at this I guess.

Sorry, make endings_seen a persistent variable, not a regular variable. It should be:

And you initialize the variable in an init block somewhere:

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derp. In hindsight that makes a lot of sense. xDD Thank you.

edit: Made the necessary changes and it works like a charm!! c: Thank you very much!