splashscreen/intro

[amaturemanga]

hey everyone im trying to make a splashscreen/intro but im stumped this what i have so far when i test it out in renpy all that appears is a white screen then it blinks black and goes to main menu the text never appears i want the text to fade in and out before going to the main menu:

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# The game starts here.
label splashscreen:
   scene black 
    with Pause(1)
    
    show text "AmatureManga Productions Presents
    a story by: AmatureManga   and   Art by: SilverKazeNinja" with dissolve
    with Pause(2)
    
    hide text with dissolve
    with Pause(1)
 label start:

[wyverngem]

For the splashscreen the with pause needs to be this instead

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$ renpy.pause(1)

Change 1 to however many seconds you wish for the text to display before moving on.

[amaturemanga]

For the splashscreen the with pause needs to be this instead

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$ renpy.pause(1)

Change 1 to however many seconds you wish for the text to display before moving on.

thank you but now im getting an indentation mismatch on line 21 can you tell me what i did wrong?

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# The game starts here.
label splashscreen:
   scene black 
    $ renpy.pause(10)
    
    show text "AmatureManga Productions Presents
    a story by: AmatureManga   and   Art by: SilverKazeNinja" with dissolve
    $ renpy.pause(2)
    
    hide text with dissolve
    $renpy.pause(1)
 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

[wyverngem]

The alignment for your start menu is off. There's an extra space where there shouldn't be in front of your line of code starting at the start label.

[trooper6]

Generally speaking all your indents look off.

Each level of indent should be 4 spaces. You should indent after colons, but not otherwise. In the code you posted, you have an indent after scene black, and I don't know why. Your start label is not fully brought back to where it should be, you have it indented by one space. Generally speaking, be more careful on your indents.

I think it should look more like:

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# The game starts here.
label splashscreen:
    scene black 
    $ renpy.pause(10)
    
    show text "AmatureManga Productions Presents
    a story by: AmatureManga   and   Art by: SilverKazeNinja" with dissolve
    $ renpy.pause(2)
    
    hide text with dissolve
    $renpy.pause(1)

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

[amaturemanga]

Generally speaking all your indents look off.

Each level of indent should be 4 spaces. You should indent after colons, but not otherwise. In the code you posted, you have an indent after scene black, and I don't know why. Your start label is not fully brought back to where it should be, you have it indented by one space. Generally speaking, be more careful on your indents.

I think it should look more like:

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# The game starts here.
label splashscreen:
    scene black 
    $ renpy.pause(10)
    
    show text "AmatureManga Productions Presents
    a story by: AmatureManga   and   Art by: SilverKazeNinja" with dissolve
    $ renpy.pause(2)
    
    hide text with dissolve
    $renpy.pause(1)

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

thank you trooper now the splashscreen is sortof working black screen has been created and its pausing but now the words EOL while scanning string literal (<none> line1) are fading in, in red and the text boxes for the visual novel are appearing before the main menu. the text that i want to fade in and out still isnt appearing

[philat]

Fix the two things below. The problem with the first is that the line break isn't playing nice with show, and the second is because the splashscreen doesn't "end" -- it goes straight into label start.

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label splashscreen:
    scene black 
    $ renpy.pause(1)
    
    show text "AmatureManga Productions Presents\na story by: AmatureManga   and   Art by: SilverKazeNinja" with dissolve ## fix
    $ renpy.pause(2)
    
    hide text with dissolve
    $renpy.pause(1)
    return ## fix

[amaturemanga]

Fix the two things below. The problem with the first is that the line break isn't playing nice with show, and the second is because the splashscreen doesn't "end" -- it goes straight into label start.

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label splashscreen:
    scene black 
    $ renpy.pause(1)
    
    show text "AmatureManga Productions Presents\na story by: AmatureManga   and   Art by: SilverKazeNinja" with dissolve ## fix
    $ renpy.pause(2)
    
    hide text with dissolve
    $renpy.pause(1)
    return ## fix

THANK YOU!! Now its working.