How to make a "character name" bold?

[TheOtherNewGuy]

Sry if this has been asked many times, i'm in the middle of reading the renpy documentation from start to finish but i figured i ask.

I just recently updated renpy from 6.99.4 to 6.99.11. I started a new project and it seems that the names of characters above text is no longer bold. Also i think the way outlines and shadows are applied to text have changed as well. Anyone have this problem?

[mard]

This, https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue ... er-objects

and this, https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pr ... properties

will give you your answer.

Heres an example of what it would look like

Code: Select all

define e = Character("Eileen", who_bold=False, who_italic=True, what_font="GenR102.ttf", what_prefix='"', what_suffix='"')

And heres the result

http://i.imgur.com/HgmkF3y.png

Image is too big to post so you'll have to open it in a seperate tab.

I set bold to False, if you set it to True it'll show up as bold.

[Donmai]

If you want all the characters names to be in bold letters, you can try:

Code: Select all

style say_label:
    bold True

[TheOtherNewGuy]

@mard

thanks for the links. but it's amazing how I don't get a lot of code explanations, pretty much with every language I've tried to get into. I wish everything was more like. If you want to make a character name bold then type this. I'll keep looking this over and hope something clicks. do you need to have all those arguments filled for the effect to work? I tried define e = Character("Eileen", who_bold=True) but that threw me an error.

@donmai

thanks that seemed to work. If you feel like answering, is there a similar way to create outlines and shadows? (still in the middle of reading through the documentation.)

[mard]

It's a lot to take in. When it comes to reading the documentation, read through what you're focusing on once, then step back and look over a few scripts. After that, come back after a day or two and read it again. Basically you want to let the information sink in, then look at it again. Doing it this way will save you a lot of stress.

At any rate, this

Code: Select all

define e = Character("Eileen", who_bold=True)

shouldn't return any errors. Just remember to put it in script.rpy, within an init block.

If you put it in screens.rpy, options.rpy, or gui.rpy it'll return an error.

[TheOtherNewGuy]

It's a lot to take in. When it comes to reading the documentation, read through what you're focusing on once, then step back and look over a few scripts. After that, come back after a day or two and read it again. Basically you want to let the information sink in, then look at it again. Doing it this way will save you a lot of stress.

At any rate, this

Code: Select all

define e = Character("Eileen", who_bold=True)

shouldn't return any errors. Just remember to put it in script.rpy, within an init block.

If you put it in screens.rpy, options.rpy, or gui.rpy it'll return an error.

k ill be sure to do that. thanks for the reply. I'm also using renpy 6.99.11 if that matters.

Edit: tried it again. looks like that code works as well. maybe i made a typo before. Gonna look through the documentation for shadows and outlines now.

[mard]

For shadows and outlines, you'll want to look here. https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pr ... y-outlines

[TheOtherNewGuy]

For shadows and outlines, you'll want to look here. https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pr ... y-outlines

Awesome. K the outline was pretty straight forward... phew. thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

If you wanted both an outline and a shadow, how would one write the code. I tried experimenting, but.... yeah.

[Donmai]

Something like

Code: Select all

define e = Character("Eileen", who_bold=True, who_outlines=[(1, "#000", 1, 1), (1, "#000", 0, 0)])

That will give you black outlines and a black shadow.
If you prefer to use style, which will affect all characters names in your game, then you would only add more style properties to the style block:

Code: Select all

style say_label:
    bold True
    outlines [(1, "#000", 0, 0)]
    drop_shadow (1, 1)
    drop_shadow_color '#424242' # that will give you a gray drop shadow

You can read about styles here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style.html#styles You will find a list of text style properties here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pr ... properties

[TheOtherNewGuy]

Something like

Code: Select all

define e = Character("Eileen", who_bold=True, who_outlines=[(1, "#000", 1, 1), (1, "#000", 0, 0)])

That will give you black outlines and a black shadow.
If you prefer to use style, which will affect all characters names in your game, then you would only add more style properties to the style block:

Code: Select all

style say_label:
    bold True
    outlines [(1, "#000", 0, 0)]
    drop_shadow (1, 1)
    drop_shadow_color '#424242' # that will give you a gray drop shadow

You can read about styles here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style.html#styles You will find a list of text style properties here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pr ... properties

Awesome. thank you.

Thank you for the links, but I don't know. Still reading the documentation and nothing is clicking, as usual with me and coding.

Where did you even find out that there was a "drop_shadow" command? I didnt even see that in the styles section of the documentation.

[Donmai]

Where did you even find out that there was a "drop_shadow" command?

Good question, and the answer is "I don't know exactly" .
I don't even know if the "drop_shadow" style property is documented or not, but I know it's been around for some time. I just seen people using it. I learn a lot seeing other people's programming examples. Look here, for example: viewtopic.php?p=225925#p225925
Notice that the script is using the old style syntax, but the drop_shadow and the drop_shadow_color properties are there.