How to hide files when you build distributiong (Solved.)

[Nyu]

When I click build distrubutions to make a zip file of the game, there will be a "game" folder in the result. And that folder contains all the game files, I was wondering if anyone know how to hide them, because I've seen some of the gamemakers do it... >_<

Thanks so much!

[Zumi]

On the Ren'Py launcher, there should be an option to "Archive Files".
Click it and choose/type what files you wanna "hide".

[shahab96]

I tried that but then when i tried to play the game myself it says that all of the files i archived are unloadable.

[Jake]

I tried that but then when i tried to play the game myself it says that all of the files i archived are unloadable.

Could it be that the case (capital or lower-case) of the filenames varies between the files on disk and the filenames mentioned in your scripts?

I seem to recall that Ren'Py on Windows will happily load in "Image.JPG" from the disk when asked for "image.jpg", but if you run it with the archived files - or just on the Mac or on Linux, archives or no - it'll complain it can't find "image.jpg" when "Image.JPG" exists...

[Bolt]

hidden files, also know as .rpa archives.

I have problem with these also, until I realised how to work it around XD

1: You select Archive files, then in include patterns u select the type of files u want to hide
(I use *.png *.gif *.ogg *.mp3 .*wav .*jpg)

"*" means all the files with that ending. If u want to say a determinated file use for example logo.png

2: Press Archive

Well u files are hidden

3: A Folder called "archived" will be created in the forlder with your game. Dont mind it, its just for backup if u delete your .rpa file
alse there you should put all the things u want to hide.

4: To call an image, just use the folders and subfolders inside archived

For example inside archived you have images folder, and music folder. Inside images: logo.png and inside music: bgm.mp3
When u declare the images do as this:
image logo = "images/logo.png"

and to play music like this:
$renpy.music.play("music/bgm.mp3", channel="music", loop=True)

And remember that linux and mac are case sensitive, so call your files with the real name, not capitalized (even though works in windows)

[Spiky Caterpillar]

Archiving files hides them from casual inspection, though anyone reasonably well-versed in Ren'Py's internals can extract them with a few minutes' work. You can also add '.rpy' to the 'Ignore extensions' field when building distributions if you don't want your source directly exposed - Ren'Py doesn't need the .rpy files, only the .rpyc files. (And if you've got any other files in the game directory that you don't need in the distributions - say, .xcf versions of your character sprites, they can also go in the ignore extensions list.)

[Nyu]

Thanks so muchh everyone~ ^ ^ My game will be out soon thanks to the help of you guys!