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re: division by zero: use floats, not integers (integer division in python 2.7 would result in 0).

Forget showing and hiding the image from menu context, easier to just toggle the variable and do the showing/hiding elsewhere. screen vignette_screen: layer "vignette_layer" if persistent.vignette: # toggle the add add 'vignette' label start: show screen vignette_screen # should stay up at all times...

Not that there's anything wrong with using a function but if it's purely renpy script you need, simpler to use a called label.

Eh. Image manipulators aren't very commonly used because they only take images, not displayables, and because they're considered relatively expensive (although what that actually means in concrete numbers is beyond me). That said, there's no other feature for what you want currently, afaik.

You could do this in any number of ways, but, uh, why would you not reference stuff directly (in whichever direction you prefer)? TL_GUO_loc[0] = GuoPlace(2819, 2023, "Kwangchow", True, TL_GUO[0], "ROC", False, False) e.g., TL_GUO[0], rather than "Republic of China", meaning you could refer to whate...

Any reason you wouldn't just use {nw}?

You could use has vbox / has hbox if that fits what you want. Or you could use a separate screen, e.g.: screen myscreen(): if normalmode: vbox xalign 1.0 yalign 0.0: use inventory else: hbox xalign 0.0 yalign 0.99: use inventory screen inventory: # big block of duplicated code

Don't use smart quotes.

The reason everyone is saying maybe don't do it is because it's time and effort going into something with not a ton of benefit -- the difference in effort between $showScene(myScene) and showScene myScene is... negligible. The effort of getting a creator-defined statement to work is less negligible ...

Eh. I mean, the concept would be the same with different numbers. But I guess I can think of ways to do this but can't really offer any thought on whether it's "efficient" or not.

Basically you shouldn't be using ShowMenu because the menu context is separate from the game context. Try Show(), although you'll need to figure out your own flow control. Perhaps referring to this will help. viewtopic.php?f=51&t=53539#p503792

In your 6 characters / 4 times a week example, wouldn't it make more sense and be simpler to enforce that all days have three or four encounters (as opposed to a truly random 5 5 5 5 1 1 2 distribution, for example?) Then it would be a matter of distributing 24 cards into seven groups of 3/4 and the...

Dunno how well that would work, if it would even work at all. Well, it can work. But the problem (and the reason I didn't mention it) is that by doing that you're automatically not using ren'py's built-in text system (the syntax, line-breaking, text tags, characters and all their assorted features ...

As far as I know, basically the answer is there is no simple way to do this. You can sort of hack your way around it for specific effects using text tags (e.g., https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=23852 ) but there are limits. The internal workings of renpy's text display are at th...

...because this seems way more complicated than it should be... I mean... agreed. show screen date with dissolve pause hide screen date with dissolve (obviously without the button) is the simplest form of what you're asking for and should work fine. If you want to use scene for the transition, you ...