(Question) Make a loading screen before entering the scene ?

[NNaosuke]

I just want to know, what can I make the loading screen in the game before entering the main scene

[indoneko]

What kind of loading screen? Do you have a reference picture of it?

If this is a question about how to code it in Renpy, then you should've posted in Renpy Question sub forum instead of here...

[mugenjohncel]

I just want to know, what can I make the loading screen in the game before entering the main scene

That's easy... you can simulate a loading screen in renpy by doing this...

First, make a fake loading graphics

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init: 
    image loading = "graphics/loading_screen.jpg"
    #assuming you put your graphics in "graphics" folder. Change accordingly..."

Then you use it like this...

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    scene loading with fade
    $ renpy.pause(4.0, hard=True)
    #True makes it un-clickable to give the impression the game is loading something in the background
    scene background_02 with fade
    show uncle_mugen with dissolve
    m "And... were here... "
    m "Me, You and the background behind me..."
    m "Everything was loaded properly."

Edit: I added a working demo here so you can play with it...

Glorious Loading Screen Demo.zip

Drop this in your Renpy Root Directory

(1.41 MiB) Downloaded 277 times

"POOF" (...what have I done)

[gas]

@Mugen: Hi Uncle! Nice to see ya!

You can simply put an image in the game folder called "presplash.png".
Just that, really, Ren'py automatically show it in the "loading" phase. No coding.

If it goes too fast, use this:
define config.minimum_presplash_time = x.x

where x.x are the minimum seconds the image must show up.

[mugenjohncel]

@Mugen: Hi Uncle! Nice to see ya!

Yahoo... and uh...

Now that I look at it more closely... yes, I may have read this very wrong... and interpreted it as wanting to fake a loading screen...

"POOF" (Disappears)

[indoneko]

You can simply put an image in the game folder called "presplash.png".
Just that, really, Ren'py automatically show it in the "loading" phase. No coding..

My renpy launcher simply refuses to launch my game whenever I do something like that. Is there any additional option that I must set (beside the minimum presplash time) ?
I'm using the new GUI.

[Donmai]

I'm using the new GUI.

Maybe the new GUI doesn't have this feature? The usefulness of the presplash image was questioned five years ago. viewtopic.php?f=32&t=16060

[Imperf3kt]

The presplash is there for Android, so it should still be there somewhere for PC.

off to the docs, I guess.

[indoneko]

So, a presplash.png in a game directory will actually block renpy launcher on PC? Is it by design? (I'm talking about the new version, with the new GUI)

[gas]

I'm using it in that very exact moment, new GUI and Linux.
Work perfectly as intended.
Just created a presplash.png, and dropped in the game folder (not the images, the game, where there are scripts).

("new gui" means nothing, the core is the same whatever, legacy or new, you use).

[Donmai]

("new gui" means nothing, the core is the same whatever, legacy or new, you use)

Partially true. viewtopic.php?p=444546#p444546

[indoneko]

I'm using it in that very exact moment, new GUI and Linux.
Work perfectly as intended.
Just created a presplash.png, and dropped in the game folder (not the images, the game, where there are scripts).

("new gui" means nothing, the core is the same whatever, legacy or new, you use).

Which renpy version do you use?

I tested this on Windows with several Renpy version, and the result :

Renpy 6.99.12.4 : FAILED
Renpy 6.99.12.2 : FAILED
Renpy 6.99.4 : SUCCESS
Renpy 6.12 : SUCCESS

[gas]

I'm using it in that very exact moment, new GUI and Linux.
Work perfectly as intended.
Just created a presplash.png, and dropped in the game folder (not the images, the game, where there are scripts).

("new gui" means nothing, the core is the same whatever, legacy or new, you use).

Which renpy version do you use?

I tested this on Windows with several Renpy version, and the result :

Renpy 6.99.12.4 : FAILED
Renpy 6.99.12.2 : FAILED
Renpy 6.99.4 : SUCCESS
Renpy 6.12 : SUCCESS

Linux 6.99.12.3
It work also on Wine emulation.

I'll do a quick update now and let's see.

EDIT: it work even better now XD. On 6.99.12.4 both in Linux and Wine.

[First Aid Kid]

I'm using it in that very exact moment, new GUI and Linux.
Work perfectly as intended.
Just created a presplash.png, and dropped in the game folder (not the images, the game, where there are scripts).

("new gui" means nothing, the core is the same whatever, legacy or new, you use).

Which renpy version do you use?

I tested this on Windows with several Renpy version, and the result :

Renpy 6.99.12.4 : FAILED
Renpy 6.99.12.2 : FAILED
Renpy 6.99.4 : SUCCESS
Renpy 6.12 : SUCCESS

Linux 6.99.12.3
It work also on Wine emulation.

I'll do a quick update now and let's see.

EDIT: it work even better now XD. On 6.99.12.4 both in Linux and Wine.

Do .gif files work as well?

[Imperf3kt]

Renpy does not support .gif files
If you want animation you can use ATL, which strings together a bunch of still images, similar to how the graphics interchange format works.

However, you must do this in the splashscreen, it won't work in the presplash.