Locking screens and disabling decision points

[InvertMouse]

Hello everyone ! Got a couple of questions if that’s okay:

- Is it possible to not allow players to skip a screen until a few seconds has passed? For example, I might have a thank you for playing image at the end of the game, but if the player spam clicks, she will kip the message without realizing. Is it possible to disable click (or hitting enter etc) until an image has transitioned in fully?

- Let’s say I have a decision point:

menu:
"Option A":
jump option_a
"Option B":
jump option_b

And I want option b to be disabled until $ persistent.isOptionBAvailable = true. How would I manage that? I would like the button to look faded out if it is disabled as well.

Thank you heaps!

[xela]

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"Option B" if persistent.isOptionBAvailable:
    jump option_b

You'll have to mess with the screen to fade the option out.

[trooper6]

Question 1 is usually dealt with using a hard pause.

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show screen end_game()
$renpy.pause(3.0, hard=True)

That is documented here: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/other.html#renpy.pause
and there are lots of threads about it in these forums.

Question 2 is done using the basic coding if you are using the regular menu options documented here: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/menus.html#in-game-menus

For your example, you'd just do:

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init python:
    if not persistent.isOptionBAvailable:
        persistent.isOptionBAvailable = False

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!"
    
    menu:
        "What do you choose?"
        "Option A":
            jump labelA
        "Obtion B" if persistent.isOptionBAvailable:
            jump labelB

As for having the option show up and be greyed out...I don't know about that. You might have to do custom menu options for that.

[InvertMouse]

Thank you so much for the help folks! I will look into these solutions asap .