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In some of the code above, your Character definitions were lacking the “image” attribute that would link the Character object to the image tag.
The variable name being the same as the image tag isn’t enough.

Instead of using Function, try using

action If(“testFunction()”, true = Return())

If() will evaluate the first expression, in this case, a call to your function, and then choose between two actions based on whether the expression returns True or False.

There is another possibility, which may or may not be easier. The thing to understand is that when you construct a dialog line in your script, the speaker doesn’t HAVE to be a Character object. All it has to do is obey the protocol. See https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue.html#python-equivalents...

Ok, well it was a nice theory.... LOL. But it doesn’t do it if you use VP8?

Ah. “edgescroll”. Didn’t know about that, but PyTom always seems to have anticipated our needs...

That probably isn’t surprising, given that after it does the first “say,” despite the “no wait” its going to want to show the trailing quote because it doesn’t know an “extend” is coming. Maybe what you could do, just for this sequence, is to use a different Character that doesn’t have the prefix an...

Only one observation - do you really need 60fps? If you ran at, say, 30fps it feels like that would reduce the strain on the whole video decode chain, leaving more CPU for the audio. Probably also would allow you to reduce the bitrate. 60fps at 1920x1080 might just be pushing the limits of what Renp...

I know you could do this with a custom Displayable, but that may be more work than necessary. What you could try is creating screen with a transparent image button at each edge of the screen and then attach an action to the button’s hovered that will adjust the offset of the background, so that when...

The Ren’py random system is specifically designed to be repeatable in that manner. What you could do would be to use the underlying Python random library directly, rather than the Ren’py version. This thread https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=56439 has an example of a class that d...

Just speculating, but I wonder if your system has drivers or codecs that allow hardware acceleration for vp8 but not for vp9. Software-only decoding for vp9 could probably cause this type of effect as the frame sizes increase (which they would as you increased the nitrate)

When you say “added after distribution” what do you mean? Normally, when games are released in phases, one gets the game source to a certain point, builds a distribution, then adds to the source, builds a new distribution, etc. is that’s what you’re doing? That process should work fine, unless you a...

Without some significant programming skill, you’re not going to be able to do it, because it would require modifying Ren’py itself. Even then, it won’t stop a determined cracker. The problem is that the game has to read the files, which means the decryption code has to be in the game, which means it...

Good review, GNVE.

You can easily use Daz Studio to produce images that will work just fine with Ren’py. (I do it a lot.)

For those not familiar with it, Daz Studio (Daz3d.com) is a free 3D rendering package that can produce 2d stills and animations from supported 3D models. It’s kind of the successor to Poser.

You’re very welcome!