Second splash screen? [Solved]

[Lime-Kiwi]

Is it possible to have a second splash screen image within the the game or would be better in my case?
I'm trying to add screens that say "Chapter # complete", but using images instead.

[chewpower]

I'm trying to add screens that say "Chapter # complete", but using images instead.

I don't know about splash screen but I'll show you my approach. I just read about keymap in this link and it says that you can modify list of keys that user can click in order to make something in Ren'Py works. For example: dismissing a Say statement.

Now the "Chapter# complete" can be done with images by declaring the image as bg and show them as scene.

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scene bg yourimage
with dissolve

And then we disable all say keymap in the list by these

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$ config.keymap['dismiss'].remove('mouseup_1')
$ config.keymap['dismiss'].remove('K_RETURN')
$ config.keymap['dismiss'].remove('K_SPACE')
$ config.keymap['dismiss'].remove('K_KP_ENTER')
$ config.keymap['dismiss'].remove('joy_dismiss')

(there should be easier way to putt all those 5 lines together but I still don't know how.)

We don't want to disable the keys forever, so we want to put them back the next 5 seconds or so. So here's what I do. I record the play time (in second) and then compute it all over again until it reach 5 seconds, all is done while the user can't type/mouse click the scene to advance further.

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    $ min_now, sec_now = divmod(int(renpy.get_game_runtime()), 60)
    $ flag = True
    while flag == True:
        $ min_ltr, sec_ltr = divmod(int(renpy.get_game_runtime()), 60)
        $ diff = sec_ltr - sec_now
        if diff >= 5:
            $ flag = False

The above code will compute how many seconds elapsed from when the bg show until current time, and unless the $ diff hit 5, we won't be able to get out from the while function. (note that I also count the minute as well, because I don't know how else to get the second without counting the minute... shame on me)

After that, we append the original keymap back.

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    $ config.keymap['dismiss'].append('mouseup_1')
    $ config.keymap['dismiss'].append('K_RETURN')
    $ config.keymap['dismiss'].append('K_SPACE')
    $ config.keymap['dismiss'].append('K_KP_ENTER')
    $ config.keymap['dismiss'].append('joy_dismiss')

User can click/move on to the next scene now...

[chewpower]

I'm really sorry. The only way for the above solution to work is if only there's a say statement inside the while function. Else, the game would freeze and "not responding". So here's a little fix

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    $ min_now, sec_now = divmod(int(renpy.get_game_runtime()), 60)
    $ flag = True
    while flag == True:
        "say something or anything here"
        $ min_ltr, sec_ltr = divmod(int(renpy.get_game_runtime()), 60)
        $ diff = sec_ltr - sec_now
        if diff >= 5:
            $ flag = False

I did have the say statement while testing this code before, but I didn't know if we exclude the say altogether it would mess up the program.

[Lime-Kiwi]

I found another way that seemed a lot easier:

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    scene chpt1
    $ renpy.pause(5)
    with dissolve
    
    scene black

Thank you though!

[chewpower]

Ah, I thought by splash screen you mean an image is shown without being able to be interrupted. So I went and overdid myself but yeah it actually is that simple

[pwisaguacate]

And if you wish, you may stop the user from clicking (other buttons will still work) during the image cutscene with a hard pause.

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    play music "transition.ogg" # optional sound effect
    scene chpt1 with fade
    $ renpy.pause(3, hard=True)

    scene bg uni with dissolve
    play music "illurock.ogg"

[chewpower]

Oh My God it actually IS that simple lol now i feel like a total newb (which I already am) thank you pwisaguacate for sharing this information