Creating Checkpoints before Battles and Key events

[Sword of Akasha]

Deaths happens alot in my visual novel. Some of my play testers have been complaining that they don't like having to re-read too many sections when they forget to save. I want make the game autosave at certain points before deadly encounters.

I've tried adding this to the script and it doesn't work. I've tried it with screenshot set as False and True

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    $ renpy.force_autosave(take_screenshot=False)

Oddly enough the autosave works when I quit the game but not when I set a point in the script. I'd deeply appreciate if anyone has found a solution to this.

[Taleweaver]

Moved to Ren'Py Questions.

[Sword of Akasha]

Anyone?

[xela]

It should just work... unless you took specific measures that it doesn't previously in your code someplace (although I am not sure that forced autosave can be blocked like the normal autosave can).

[Sword of Akasha]

Much thanks for your reply. I appreciate it.

I did some testing and figured out that it doesn't save when you use auto forward. It does when you click through it.

$ renpy.choice_for_skipping()

This doesn't seem to save for auto forward either. Also it doesn't stop when skipping.

Is there way to stop auto forward when a player uses it? I intend the majority of players to use auto after setting it to their reading speed.

[xela]

There are the bunch of posts you can use:

http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... p+skipping

You may even stop skipping by restarting the interaction, there should be a whole bunch of ways to get it done.