[SOLVED] NVL mode question

[Michiyo6918]

I have some questions regarding the NVL mode.

First, how can I have a box surrounded the text, somehow look like this. (I borrowed it from a different person...)

Second, how can I add side image to a NVL character?

Third, how can I make a dialog appears at once? Like... not the type writer style anymore, just a part of the game with dialog appears at once?

[apricotorange]

Changing the appearance to look like that screenshot isn't too hard; it's just a matter of setting the appropriate styles on "nvl_window" and "nvl_entry". (Feel free to ask if you need more details here.)

For side images, see http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/side_image.html .

As for the text appearing all at once, that's the default unless you've changed config.default_text_cps to something other than 0...

[Michiyo6918]

Changing the appearance to look like that screenshot isn't too hard; it's just a matter of setting the appropriate styles on "nvl_window" and "nvl_entry". (Feel free to ask if you need more details here.)

I'm pretty blind right now... X_X so yeah, can you tell me the details of this?

For side images, see http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/side_image.html

I looked through this one already but still couldn't find out the solution. Can you show me the code of it? (I want the side image to show up before the dialog in NVL mode, like an avatar.)

[apricotorange]

Simple example of NVL window restyling (put in an init block):

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    style.nvl_window.background=None
    style.nvl_entry.background="#888"
    style.nvl_entry.xfill = True

Quick example of NVL side images (only one shows at a time):

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image side eileen = "sylvie_giggle_small.png"
define e = Character('Eileen', color="#c8ffc8", image="eileen", kind=nvl)
label start:
    e "You've created a new Ren'Py game."
    e "Once you add a story, pictures, and music, you can release it to the world!"
    return

Ren'Py doesn't really have proper support for putting a image next to each line, but the following will work:

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image eileen = "sylvie_giggle_small.png"
define e = Character('{image=eileen}Eileen', color="#c8ffc8", kind=nvl)
label start:
    e "You've created a new Ren'Py game."
    e "Once you add a story, pictures, and music, you can release it to the world!"
    return

[Michiyo6918]

The side image works perfectly, thank you

But can I ask you another question? Is it possible to add something like the show_two_window to nvl character?

I want the dialog to appear like this:

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[side image] [name]
Bla bla bla

[apricotorange]

Try going into "screen nvl" in screens.rpy in your project, and change where it says "has hbox" to "has vbox".

[Michiyo6918]

This is what I got after I change hbox to vbox:



Any solution for this?

[apricotorange]

Try looking at http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html to see what you can do.

I'm guessing you want something like the following:

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        # Display dialogue.
        for who, what, who_id, what_id, window_id in dialogue:
            window:
                id window_id

                has hbox:
                    spacing 10

                if who is not None:
                    text who id who_id

                vbox:
                    null height 24
                    text what id what_id

Edit: Oh, err, wait, I see what you mean... the {image=} trick is really a hack, and it'll make the layout you want impossible. I'll take another look.

[Michiyo6918]

It's a hack? O_o

Oh well, if that's impossible then it's fine, really Thanks for helping me out until now!

[Uchiha Echinox]

It's a hack?