newbie with questions

[chibialex-chan]

Hi I'm new to Ren'Py and I'm trying my darnest to figure it out and I think I'm doing pretty good so far. But I have a question. I'm trying to make a simple BL visual novel and so far the programing is doing good but I won't know is there any way that i could have a character portrait apper above the frame but only for a couple scence where I'd have art taking up the whole screen and the characters would be off screen.

I'm not sure I'm explaining this right so I made picuter to show sorta what I want http://chibialex.com/blog/muffin.jpg
The muffin would be the art the, yellow box would be the text frame and the balck and white image is the charater portrait.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[Nafai]

Hiya!

Im new here myself. Dont know if this will help you any but you might want to check this thread of jake's: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1149

It has a way to show portraits and the like. Maybe there's a way you could only use it for part-game.

[monele]

Jake's system should work. If you don't want to use the whole thing, though, here's what PyTom gave me when I asked for the same system :

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init -50:
    python:
        def side_say(who, what, side=None, **kwargs):
            if side:
                ui.layer('faces');
                ui.image(side, xpos=10, ypos=589, xanchor='left', yanchor='bottom') # define the position of portraits here
                ui.close();
            renpy.display_say(who, what, **kwargs) 

    $ config.transient_layers = ['transient','faces']
    $ config.layers = ['master','transient','overlay','faces']

Put this somewhere in your script (around your initialization parts).

Then create a Character object for each portrait/character:

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init:
    $ marie = Character("Marie", function=side_say, side='marie.jpg', window_left_padding=148)

This creates a character named "Marie", which displays a portrait "marie.jpg" with text padded 148 pixels to the right (so it isn't over the portrait).

Then all you have to do is go

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marie "I'm talking with a portrait on my left."

[PyTom]

While the code I gave monele will work in most cases, it might fail in some odd cases, like when used with the {p} or {w} text tags. Here's an updated version:

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init -1:

    python:

        def side_show_say(who, what,
                           who_args={},
                           what_args={},
                           window_args={},
                           image=False,
                           side=None,
                           **kwargs):

            ui.window(**window_args)

            ui.hbox()

            if side:
                ui.image(side)

            ui.vbox(style='say_vbox')

            if who:
                if image:
                    renpy.ui.add(renpy.display.im.image(who, loose=True, **who_args))
                else:
                    renpy.ui.text(who, **who_args)

            rv = renpy.ui.text(what, **what_args)
            ui.close()
            ui.close()

            return rv

Use it like:

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init:
    $ e = Character(u'Eileen', color=(200, 255, 200, 255),
                    show_function=side_show_say,
                    show_side="cyan.png")

I will probably be releasing an updated version of this code as an extra with 5.5.4, a version that supports predictive loading of the side image.

In general, the function= argument of Charcter is deprecated, in favor of show_function=. This is a fairly new change.

[monele]

Ohh! I *just* tried using {p} today and noticed it didn't work but I didn't insist because I could get the same effect with {fast} and a little more work. But that's good news!

[PyTom]

Yeah, the problem is that Character and the associated functions have turned into a real mess. Probably in 5.6 I'll be reorganizing that whole thing, which may lead to some incompatible changes, but will probably lead to better code when the whole thing is done.

[chibialex-chan]

*scrunches up face* mmm... what all does that mean *neverous laugh* I'm trying to understand what it doning so that way if have to fix anything or change it I don't have to keep bothering everyone.

[chibialex-chan]

hmm.. is there any way to have mulpy portate of the same character with this code? How would you call them in the game?

[PyTom]

The way to have multiple portraits with my code is to declare multiple characters. So you can declare heather_happy, heather_sad, heather_mad, and so on as separate Characters, with separate side images.

The Character class is somewhat misnamed, as it's less the representation of a single character, and more a way of saying how dialogue is shown to the user.

[monele]

Example code :

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$ kat = Character("kat_name", function=side_say, side='kat.png')
$ katmad = Character("kat_name", function=side_say, side='katmad.png')
$ kathap = Character("kat_name", function=side_say, side='kathap.png')

Then

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kat "What do you mean ?"
katmad "Are you making fun of me ?!"
kathap "Oh it was just a joke !"

(note : just replace "function" by "show_function" and "side" by "show_side"... my code is a bit old ^^)

[chibialex-chan]

ok I think I under stand.
So the set up in the init would be
init -1:

python:

def side_show_say(who, what,
who_args={},
what_args={},
window_args={},
image=False,
side=None,
**kwargs):

ui.window(**window_args)

ui.hbox()

if side:
ui.image(side)

ui.vbox(style='say_vbox')

if who:
if image:
renpy.ui.add(renpy.display.im.image(who, loose=True, **who_args))
else:
renpy.ui.text(who, **who_args)

rv = renpy.ui.text(what, **what_args)
ui.close()
ui.close()

return rv

init: #Peter's mugshot
$ pete = Character("peter_name", function=side_say, side='peter_port.png')
$ peteblush= Character("peter_name", function=side_say, side='petemad.png')
$ petehap = Character("peter_name", function=side_say, side='peterhap.png')

then to call it in the game it would be

pete "What do you mean ?"
petemad "Are you making fun of me ?!"
petehap "Oh it was just a joke !"

no have to use the show or hide commands? How would i turn off the portrates? Coudl I still do it with the hide comand? I'm sorry I'm pester everone with this. And there more question after this but first I want to get this nailed down

[monele]

Ain't looking in details (*darn tired @_@*) but it looks about right. Don't forget to indent lines in blocks though.

And you don't need to hide portraits that are displayed using this. They just appear along with the text, and only with that text.

If you mean having text with no portrait, well... just create a regular Character object I guess ?

[PyTom]

That's right, except you want to use show_function instead of function, and show_side instead of side. But the basic idea is right.