Ren'Py Gripes

[Samidarenina]

Excuse me, but I just wanted to mention that when saving or rollbacking in, for example, a line with multiple {w}/{p} tags, the line will start ignoring any ctc indicators and text speed.
Not really a big thing, but it can look a bit ugly and inconsistent.

[PyTom]

That's intentional.

The idea is that when you're rollbacking or rollforwarding, you want to see the old text quickly so you can get back to playing the game.

[Samidarenina]

Ah correction: You need to be in the middle of the line, rollback and then rollforward. The text you didn't see yet breaks, not the old one.

[nyaatrap]

Is it possible to implement color manipulation into the ATL?

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show sprite:
    linear 1 grayscale
    linear 1 colorize "#789"

I got this idea while reading this topic: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... =8&t=16376

[DragoonHP]

When in DirectX mode, Ren'Py always reports that the DirectX version is outdated. But the Web DirectX installer shows that DirectX is up-to-date

[PyTom]

Is it possible to implement color manipulation into the ATL?

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show sprite:
    linear 1 grayscale
    linear 1 colorize "#789"

I got this idea while reading this topic: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... =8&t=16376

This is a direction that I plan to take Ren'Py in at some point, once I can require OpenGL 2 support. (Or fall back to Mesa.)

[DragoonHP]

By the way, is it normal for Ren'Py to use more than 450 MB (and growing) while updating?
(Or is this the memory leak someone mentioned)

EDIT: Windows 7 32-bit (Ren'Py is now using 471,820 K memory)

[PyTom]

No, it shouldn't increase memory usage by very much.

What phase of update were you in? Did you have any anti-virus software running?

[DragoonHP]

As soon as I started updating; I was downloading Editra. And yes, Avast was running in the background.

And when the update stopped (because of an error, most probably because of my crappy connection), the RAM increase stopped at 474, 850 or something.

[PyTom]

Question - was it Ren'Py using the RAM, or zsync?

[DragoonHP]

Ren'Py
ZSync memory was capped somewhere around 2,800 KB.

PS: Just noticed that I posted this in Gripes... sorry /fail

[DragoonHP]

Update: I can't seem to recreate the error. Now the RAM consumption fluctuates between 61 to 72 MB.

[nyaatrap]

Is it possible to implement color manipulation into the ATL?

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show sprite:
    linear 1 grayscale
    linear 1 colorize "#789"

I got this idea while reading this topic: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... =8&t=16376

This is a direction that I plan to take Ren'Py in at some point, once I can require OpenGL 2 support. (Or fall back to Mesa.)

Yey I can't wait

[FragmentedBergyo]

Just out of curiosity(I've seen you mention it a couple of times, but never heard the reason), what is the reason you can't use OpenGL 2 as of yet? Are there any licensing issues or something similar?

[TrickWithAKnife]

Apologies if I mention something that has already been said somewhere else (I did check this whole thread though), or something that exists and I just didn't know how to use it.


Idea 1:
Some people can't figure out how to run the distributions I give them links to. It seems the main problem is that they can't figure out which file to run.

Rather than have to explain to everyone how to run the game, it would be a lot easier if there was only an executable in the initial folder.


Idea 2:
Another thing that would be nice would be having some files contained within a single container file. I really don't like that players can browse through the folders and see all the art etc. Destroys the magic for some things.

Idea 3:
It's possible to switch between 2 or more custom mouse pointers in some situations, but it doesn't appear to be possible for longer periods. It would be nice if we could switch between them for as long as we want.


Idea 4:
Having "or" code. Here is an example of what I mean:

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    if name == "Bob" or age > 96:
        "Hello grandpa."

Idea 5:
Similar to the previous idea. Using "and" to connect two or more queries. For example:

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    if day == "Sunday" and time > 11:
        "Oh no, I'm late for soccer practice!"

I do know there is a way to do this, but it's not so obvious (to me, anyway). I've just spent 15 minutes searching for it and gave up. I'd like to suggest keeping whatever the current method is, but also add the ability to use "and". It would make the code much easier for us programming newbies.