Ren'Py Gripes

[PyTom]

papillon>>>

I just added renpy.music.get_pos()

Vaendryl>>>

I decided the right way of doing this is to make you play two things. You could do:

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play sound [ "<silence .3>", "earth_shattering_kaboom.ogg" ]

To play .3s of silence, followed by a sound.

[Lyonsbanner]

Hello.

I don't know if this is exactly the right section for a "gripe", but at last I try...

The problem is quite simple, when I create a string array with words that contain accents, my project does not start. When I click on "Check Script (Lint)" I've got this error : "Launching the project failed".

The problem don't occur when I wrote after the "label start:" something like :

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narrator "C'est le mois de Février" # (It's February).

I solve the problem by changing the encoding to "UTF-8". But it took me time to figure it out. I didn't expect it was something so trivial.

[nyaatrap]

It's a not big matter, but can the hide statement take at clause?
show sprite at hiding_transform
hide sprite
takes two lines.

[PyTom]

I believe it already can, can't it?

[nyaatrap]

it doesn't throw an error, but on hide statement doesn't work on the following code. A transform defined in center is used on hide statement.

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transform hide_transform:
    on hide:
        ********

label:
    show sprite at center #this transform is used when hide
    pause
    hide sprite at hide_transform #this transform is ignored

[Kia]

is it possible to have an additional "unhover" button state in ATL please?
after making a button that comes from one side when hovered, stays at the middle then goes to another side when unhovered, it became a huge chunk of clumsy code and made me think it would be useful if we could make it like:

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transform keys:
    on idle:
        linear 0.4 xalign 0.0
    on hover:
        linear 0.4 xalign 0.5
    on unhover:
        linear 0.4 xalign 1.0

(I'm sure there are better ways to use it) this way the button goes to "unhover" state before going back to the "idle"

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what do you think?
Edit: after a bit of thinking I realized something like:

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transform coo:
    on idle:
        linear 0.4 xalign 1.0
        linear 0.4 xalign 0.0
    on hover:
        linear 0.4 xalign 0.5

does the same thing... it's not that elegant though...

[nyaatrap]

Really just a small matter and small gripe...
screen: on "show"
transform: on show
....I failed 100 times on this inconstancy.

[KnotUntied]

I don't know if this has been addressed, or if this is the wrong place, but I'm (a teeny-tiny bit) upset over Ren'Py not able to use vector formats for images.

I can name one reason to use such, and that is the construction of ornamented text. Sure, raster graphics is always a strong option, but it has some problems.

[PyTom]

What do you mean by "ornamented text"? Isn't that the sort of thing you use fonts for?

[Kia]

I think he means those colored vector graphics that come in eps or svg format

now I'm here, is there any chance we can have skew in transformations?

[jack_norton]

There's support for bitmap fonts with mudgefont, I used it in some of my older games

[KnotUntied]

What do you mean by "ornamented text"? Isn't that the sort of thing you use fonts for?

I would, but the font/s I need either do not exist, have a price tag, or are not allowed for commercial use.

[nyaatrap]

I don't know it's possible or not, but in future request:
Allow viewport to scroll without clicking scrollbar.

In ideal, when I'm pressing the arrow down key with keyboard or gamepad, it also scrolls to the bottom items that not shown within a current viewport area.

[jack_norton]

I think that would be best solved by adding key bindings to buttons actions. Something like:

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    button:
        action SetVariable("foo",True) key ["i","pad_y_press"]

so you could customize the game completely yourself, since it would be hard to come up with a solution that works with every case, and it's less work for Pytom

[nyaatrap]

Oh thanks, that should work.
However, I don't know to how to make this operation instinctive for every users without any explanation.
Maybe I'll try some test.