Ren'Py 6.15 Pre-Releases

[Donmai]

Sorry I don't get the new translation system.

Just study the code of the tutorial game. Go to the preferences screen and see that it can be played in Japanese too. I've already translated it to Portuguese:
- Created new translation files using the launcher (name = portuguese);
- Edited the newly created files inside the tl folder, writing Portuguese sentences;
- Added a new button in the preferences screen.

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                textbutton u"Português" action Language("portuguese")

And that's it. It's so straightforward that I thought "what's the catch?"
My tutorial game now can be played in English, Japanese or Portuguese.

Of course I would still like to know how to test the active language to trigger special actions (like showing a different bitmap, for example).

Okay, found the documentation I was looking for: http://www.renpy.org/dev-doc/html/trans ... anslations

[nyaatrap]

I have a question (or an idea) in this ren'py translation. If someone made a localization of the ren'py package, where to place it? It'll be included in the original, or make a place to download them externally?

[NoJoker]

Just study the code of the tutorial game. Go to the preferences screen and see that it can be played in Japanese too. I've already translated it to Portuguese:

Thanks. I think my question was formulated wrong. I just didn't get how the unsanctioned translations work^^
The new system really is great and easy to use! And if PyTom wants to add more translations in the Tutorial I can work on a German translation

[PyTom]

I'm currently trying to come up with the translation policy. I'm leaning towards distributing all contributed translations to Ren'Py, provided that people commit to bringing them up to date as Ren'Py changes.

Can I get some feedback from people as to how 6.15 is working out for them? Did the latest 6.15 fix the problems people were having?

[nyaatrap]

It's stable enough to me.
One suggestion. console can be accessed when developer mode or config.console is True, but isn't and better? Noone uses the console without developer mode.

[PyTom]

I don't think that there's much point in disabling the console in developer mode - but I think that allowing access to it outside of developer mode might make sense. For example, when a game is in beta testing, you might want to leave the console active so that you can ask people to type things into it to collect debugging information.

[nyaatrap]

Problem is what I said about IME.

[PyTom]

Unless the IME problem is something other than what I think it is, I will fix it by disabling the backtick key.

[jjsonick]

I can report that on two Macs I tested, the bug with the main window initially being invisible when launching Renpy in Lion seems fixed (hopefully this will be related to the fullscreen bug in Mountain Lion, which I can't test).

[Kinsman]

I tried out the newest version, and I was able to start up Ren'Py by double-clicking the .exe file.

Also, the two problems I had with the console are fixed now.

I don't know if you'd accept suggestions at this point, and I suppose I could add this myself, but - what if you added a callback function to the console? One that reports lines that the console is going to process?

[PyTom]

What would the use of that function be? You can already extend the console with new commands.

[Kinsman]

I was thinking you could use it to log whatever you typed into the console.

I always thought that it would be nice to be able to "live write" a visual novel, and I was surprised and pleased to suddenly hear about this new console feature.

[Jake]

I was thinking you could use it to log whatever you typed into the console.

If people did release more-complex games with the console enabled for beta testing, this could be potentially useful for determining whether the cause of a tester's crash was your code or whether it was caused by them playing around changing things in the console, for example.

[jjsonick]

PyTom, I'm still on Lion, but since you're on Mountain Lion now, I assume you've encountered the 'unsigned app' warning with Ren'Py? If so, could you say how scary/non-scary the warning is, and how easy/difficult is it to turn the warning off?

[papillon]

I haven't actually been paying attention to this (probably should at some point, to catch up on lion issues) but I just wanted to add that we've had secret consoles on a couple of our games which we use for debug/testing but players later use for cheats. They are handy things for non-dev players to have around.