[Solved] Changing the title screen throughout the game?

[menostorpe]

Basically, I want to have several different title screens. When the player starts up the VN for the first time, they'll see the first image, but after they progress far enough in the story, the title screen will change to the second image, and so on.

How should I do this? I set persistent data when those points in the story are passed, but I'm not sure how to change the image based on that.

[Ocelot]

You can do something like that in main_menu screen:

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# instead of add gui.main_menu_background :
if persistent.progress == 3:
    add backgound_3
elif persistent.progress == 2:
    add backgound_2
elif persistent.progress == 1:
    add backgound_1
else
    add backgound_default

[menostorpe]

Thanks for the quick answer! I should probably have mentioned that I'm using the legacy theme, not the GUI interface. I think the relevant part looks like this:

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    window:
        style "mm_root"

I tried something very much like what you suggested, just in case the screen could take if/else statements, but it didn't work.

[IrinaLazareva]

in Legacy theme:

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    # The background of the main menu.
    window:
        style "mm_root"
        if persistent.progress == 1:
            add "image.png"
        elif persistent.progress == 2:
            add "newimage.png"
        #etc...

[Imperf3kt]

Always make sure you count from highest to lowest (if you use numbers as your flags). Otherwise you may get undesired results when Ren'Py checks if '1' is true before '2'
If 1 is true, then 2 is ignored without being checked.

If you're using the same variable to set the bg, I think thats a bad idea. Imagine a player is at persistent.progress = 5.
What happens if a player loads an old save file, reaches persistent.progress = 3
The menu changes back to 3's background. All good.
But now they exit and reload where they were. Persistent.progress is still 3.

[menostorpe]

That does it, thanks!