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#1 Post by **PyTom** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:42 pm

This'll go live with 5.6.7 final, but the interested might want to check out the Ren'Py screencast:

http://www.renpy.org/screencast1.htm

Recca Phoenix · #2 Post by **Recca Phoenix** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:31 am

I have a question - how do you get your text editor to automatically show the colors of diff stuff like that?

#3 Post by **PyTom** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:53 am

You need a text editor that supports syntax highlighting. The version of SciTE that comes with Ren'Py does... I don't know about other editors.

Recca Phoenix · #4 Post by **Recca Phoenix** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:17 am

I have the mac version... for text editing I use TextEdit.... I will try to look for another program....

Recca Phoenix · #5 Post by **Recca Phoenix** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:26 am

Ok, I found one but how do I change the default program Ren'Py opens text files with?

#6 Post by **PyTom** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:29 am

I'm not sure how to do it on the mac. IIRC, we use Application Services to open things, so if you make it so that if you can double-click in the finder and open a script file, it should also work in Ren'Py.

monele · #7 Post by **monele** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:53 am

This screencast is interesting. Let's put the "visual" into tutorials too

. The filesize seemed a bit big though (too quite a while to download on a broadband connection ô_o). I think Wink has ways to make the final file smaller?

#8 Post by **PyTom** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:08 am

I don't see them. The only option I see that makes the final file smaller is to use a palette. That works, but dropping down to 256 colors makes the visual novel screenshot at the end horribly ugly.

I'd appreciate any suggestions people have, as I agree 7mb is a bit on the big side.

Counter Arts · #9 Post by **Counter Arts** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:19 am

I suppose a flash animation is out of the question? With motion artist or something?

#10 Post by **PyTom** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:26 am

The screencast is a flash animation. If someone wants volunteer to go in and try editing it to make it smaller, I can post up the wink file and the uncompressed swf file.

monele · #11 Post by **monele** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:01 pm

I was actually thinking of that compression thingie, but you're right... it would butcher the VN shots :/... Mhh... the only thing I can imagine optimizable is the part when you type the code. Delete 2 out 3 frames from this part since we don't really care for *each* character you type. Out of 300 frames, that's 200 frames less. This might help a bit.

#12 Post by **PyTom** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:07 am

Okay, I shrunk down the screencast a bit. It's still not tiny, but it should be better than it was before.

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