Jumping to replay screen after a route finishes

[InvertMouse]

Hello there . With the project I am working on, at the end of a route, I want to take players back to the replay screen (because it shows what screens you have cleared so players can track their progress). At the end of a route, in script.rpy, I make this call:

$ renpy.call_screen('replay_screen')

On the replay screen, I have a series of buttons that jump players to a particular scene in the game. For instance, one of the buttons will call:

Start("option_a")

I chose to call Start() rather than Replay(), as the latter prevents the save game feature from working. Anyway, this usually works fine. However, if I do the following:

- Finish a route.
- call_screen takes players to the replay screen (so they can see which ending they have just unlocked).
- Attempt to jump to a scene in the game by clicking on one of the buttons on replay screen.

If I do the above, the game crashes saying there was an exception:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/script.rpy", line 5973, in script
$ renpy.call_screen('replay_screen')
File "game/script.rpy", line 5973, in <module>
$ renpy.call_screen('replay_screen')
File "renpy/common/00action_menu.rpy", line 128, in __call__
renpy.jump_out_of_context(self.label)
JumpOutException: option_b

After doing some research, I think I know the reason for this error. When I run $ renpy.call_screen('replay_screen'), the game is still not in the main menu context, so when I then attempt to jump to an in-game scene, Renpy tries to leave the main menu context (which the code isn't in) and becomes confused. I might be completely wrong on this, but that is my guess. Would anyone know a solution for this? Thank you !

[trooper6]

Well, call is always waiting for for the next return...which will pop you back to where you came from. In your case...to the end of that route.
Call always has a Return waiting. This does not seem to be what you want.

So try $renpy.show_screen('replay_screen')
Though I don't see why you couldn't just use the regular renpy command: show screen replay_screen

[xela]

+

Start doesn't just "jump", it starts a completely new game...

Jump(labelname) statement actually jumps from screen to labels.

[InvertMouse]

Thank you so much for the responses! By using show screen replay_screen, the replay screen now works under every situation without the game ever crashing. However, when show screen replay_screen is called, rather than jumping to the replay screen, the game actually takes me back to the main menu. Any ideas on why that is? I would guess that after show screen replay_screen gets called, script.rpy continues to run until the end of the file, where a return will be called, taking you back to the main menu. Just a guess, though. Thank you !

[trooper6]

If you want to force people to interact with your replay screen and not be able to continue on with the game from where you showed the screen, make modal True for your screen:

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screen replay_screen():
    modal True

[InvertMouse]

Thanks for the tip trooper . Unfortunately, even after adding that modal line:

screen replay_screen:

modal True

When I call:

show screen replay_screen

The game still jumps to the main menu screen instead .

[philat]

xela already asked this, but to put a finer point on it: why are you using Start() rather than Jump()?

[nyaatrap]

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label replay():
    while True:
        call screen replay_screen
        call _return

screen replay_screen():
    button action Return("labelname")

I think this makes more sense if you don't want to use the Replay action. You can use Jump on the called screen if you want to jump to a label (it's equivalent to call screen > jump _return) rather than call.

[InvertMouse]

Thanks for the further replies guys . I found that when I use Jump() instead of Start() (from the replay screen), it seems like my save buttons are not working. In fact, for some reason, the return to title button seems to not work as well .

[trooper6]

I was just checking out the documentation for Replay()
http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/rooms.html#replay

It mentions that "Saving is disabled while in replay mode." That might be why you can't save. But looking at the documentation, I wonder, you added renpy.end_replay() right? Which leads me to realize that we've been trying to help but because you haven't posted your relevant code, we are all guessing.

Could you post the code for:

Your replay screen.
The place were you call your renpy screen.
One of the scenes you can replay.
Anything else that might be relevant.

[InvertMouse]

Yeah, for sure. Here are the relevant codes:

Replay screen:

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screen replay_screen:

    modal True

    tag menu

    window:
        style "mm_root"

    imagemap:
    
        ground  "assets/images/menu/replay_ground.png"
        hover  "assets/images/menu/replay_hover.png"
        insensitive  "assets/images/menu/replay_locked.png"

        hotspot (21,304,389,272) action Start("option_a")
        hotspot (455,484,362,251) action Start("option_b")

        hotspot (454,139,356,254) action If(persistent.option_a_seen == True, NullAction()) 
    
        hotspot (885,643,344,244) action If(persistent.option_b_seen == True, NullAction())
    
        hotspot (885,330,343,246) action If(persistent.option_c_seen == True, NullAction())
    
        hotspot (883,30,352,245) action If(persistent.option_d_seen == True, NullAction())
            
        hotspot (475,827,300,75) action Return()

Place where replay screen is called:

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label before_main_menu:

    # If you have reached an ending (rather than just jumping back to the title), run this and jump to the replay screen.

    if persistent.route_finish:
    
        scene black

        show screen replay_screen
    
    $ persistent.route_finish = False

    return

One of the scenes I replay (really not much to do this one):

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label option_a:

    scene test
    show test_face normal
    
    '"Is this the internet?"'

Thank you so much for helping me this far!

[trooper6]

So...before I get deep into your code, I think we need to step back and get a bit meta. Mainly because you complained about saving not working...which saving isn't supposed to work in replay mode.

So let me ask you what is is you really want to do.

Do you want Replay? This means: You get to replay a specific scene, you cannot save, and when done you return to you replay menu.
Do you want the player to be able to jump to a specific part of the game they have already played before and continue on from there in regular play mode? But without actually having ended the game because you want to keep all the variables that had been set up until the moment they jump to?

Side note? Why are you turning persistent.route_finish off when you show the replay menu...that seems odd since they've still finished the route, no?

[nyaatrap]

You can't use label before_main_menu. The game only starts from Start action from the main_menu. Otherwise, save/load/rollback shouldn't work.

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label main_menu():
    if persistent.route_finish:
        use replay_screen() # This should include Start action
    else:
        use title_screen()