I ran into my first problem when it asked me which program to use for script files. I immediately clicked 'Editra' as I'd already downloaded it and it told me I didn't have the right permissions. I checked my permissions and I'm at the highest level possible. After a quick Google, I was told to maybe try to download Ren'py to a different location and I did. That didn't help. I then tried to download Editra from Ren'py download page (since I'd previously gotten it from the Editra website). That didn't work either. I then tried the other script options with the exception of the local script option. None of those worked.
I finally threw up my hands and just did the local script option (TextEdit). Even though it wasn't as built for the script writing for Ren'py, I thought I'd be okay, but pretty quickly I realized that it was not going to work. When I tried to launch my game, it told me this:
File "game/script.rpy", line 9: Tab characters are not allowed in Ren'Py scripts.
Alright, fine. I delete all the tabs in my script only to get the same message. I check through, line by line with my arrow keys to make sure there are no tabs. Still getting the same message. Okay. I retype the whole entire thing (because I had been pasting from another pages document) and then it finally stops giving me the message, but this time it spits this out:
(sorry for providing an image instead of text, but this relays my problem clearer.) It does this to my whole script which is like 20-30 lines long. At this point, I'm thinking that I'm just super out of practice writing dialogue in Ren'py, so I go to the tutorial. With the text provided in the dialogue section, I retype it exactly. And I get the same message!
Okay, then, it's clearly not my fault because this is what the official tutorial says to do. I decide that maybe TextEdit just isn't capable, so I open the Editra I downloaded and write the same tutorial script into it and then paste it into TextEdit. This time I just get total nonsense (to me anyways)
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While loading <'Image' u'gui/button/[prefix_]background.png'>:
IOError: Couldn't find file 'gui/button/[prefix_]background.png'.
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 28, in script
python hide:
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/ast.py", line 814, in execute
renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/python.py", line 1695, in py_exec_bytecode
exec bytecode in globals, locals
File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 30, in <module>
ui.interact()
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/ui.py", line 285, in interact
rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/core.py", line 2492, in interact
repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, trans_pause=trans_pause, **kwargs)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/core.py", line 2845, in interact_core
self.draw_screen(root_widget, fullscreen_video, (not fullscreen_video) or video_frame_drawn)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/core.py", line 1921, in draw_screen
renpy.config.screen_height,
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 416, in renpy.display.render.render_screen (gen/renpy.display.render.c:6687)
rv = render(root, width, height, 0, 0)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:2859)
rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/layout.py", line 685, in render
surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3321)
cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:2859)
rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/layout.py", line 685, in render
surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3321)
cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:2859)
rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/layout.py", line 685, in render
surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3321)
cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:2859)
rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/screen.py", line 623, in render
child = renpy.display.render.render(self.child, w, h, st, at)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3321)
cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:2859)
rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/layout.py", line 685, in render
surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3321)
cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:2859)
rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/layout.py", line 887, in render
surf = render(d, width - x, rh, cst, cat)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3321)
cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:2859)
rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/behavior.py", line 707, in render
rv = super(Button, self).render(width, height, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/layout.py", line 1046, in render
xminimum = max(xminimum, size_groups[size_group].width(width, height, st, at))
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/layout.py", line 991, in width
rend = i.render(width, height, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/behavior.py", line 707, in render
rv = super(Button, self).render(width, height, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/layout.py", line 1101, in render
back = render(style.background, bw, bh, st, at)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3321)
cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:2859)
rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/imagelike.py", line 254, in render
crend = render(image, width, height, st, at)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3321)
cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:2859)
rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/image.py", line 476, in render
return wrap_render(self.target, width, height, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/image.py", line 125, in wrap_render
rend = render(child, w, h, st, at)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3321)
cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:2859)
rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/im.py", line 473, in render
im = cache.get(self)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/im.py", line 200, in get
surf = image.load()
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/display/im.py", line 524, in load
surf = renpy.display.pgrender.load_image(renpy.loader.load(self.filename), self.filename)
File "/Volumes/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy-6.99.12.1-sdk/renpy/loader.py", line 543, in load
raise IOError("Couldn't find file '%s'." % name)
IOError: Couldn't find file 'gui/button/[prefix_]background.png'.
Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
Ren'Py 6.99.12.1.2012
~ MAIN CHARACTER ~ 1.0
My script looks like this.
label start:
"Wow, It's really really dark in here."
"Lucy" "Better watch out. You don't want to be eaten by a Grue."
return
There are not 543 lines of text and I haven't got any images so most of this makes no sense. This is when I finally gave up and signed up here since googling is seeming to get me no where. Am I just really stupid?? Am I missing something obvious? It has been a couple years since I've used Ren'py so maybe I just am missing something?? At this point, I might have to dig up my dad's old 2005 windows computer with no battery and so many programs downloaded that it runs like a tortoise... If you've got any suggestions, please share! I'll try everything at this point!
Edit: Forgot to mention that I would like to use Editra instead, but I can't find a way to switch which program I'm using for the script files. If there's an answer to that as well, please let me know. c:
