Renpy Objective programming 101 help

[shiza]

So I'm a software engineer who's take the next step in creating a visual novel. I've been sifting through the documentation and I have yet to see any class declarations or creating functions. Is it possible to use object orient programming in ren'py in regards to characters and their stats? I mean the space alone will be a benefit instead of having 10 variables that tell the same type of stat for 10 different characters.

For example every character has HP but I want to know what Bob's Hp is currently at. In java you would code a class called character with all the basic information (HP, MP, AP, etc) and create instances of that class and call it by the characters name. that way you can do something like Bob.get_HP() instead of clustering the programming file with 100's of declarations. So could anyone tell me or point me to any documentation about implementing object oriented programming in ren'py?

Also does anyone have any tips on file size management? I'm barely done creating a demo and I'm already past 1000 lines in my code. Essentially everything done in a single file which makes it a bit hard to manage when you create a full scale game.

[Divona]

So I'm a software engineer who's take the next step in creating a visual novel. I've been sifting through the documentation and I have yet to see any class declarations or creating functions. Is it possible to use object orient programming in ren'py in regards to characters and their stats? I mean the space alone will be a benefit instead of having 10 variables that tell the same type of stat for 10 different characters.

For example every character has HP but I want to know what Bob's Hp is currently at. In java you would code a class called character with all the basic information (HP, MP, AP, etc) and create instances of that class and call it by the characters name. that way you can do something like Bob.get_HP() instead of clustering the programming file with 100's of declarations. So could anyone tell me or point me to any documentation about implementing object oriented programming in ren'py?

You have to understand that Ren'Py is script language using Python as a programming language. So nothing is stopping you from creating class or function in Python. There isn't in depth on how to code in Python in Ren'Py documentation. Just a simple thing on how to corporate Python code along side Ren'Py script like Python Statements and Screens and Python (see Python and Ren'Py). For other tutorials on how to create class or function in Python, you can find in other document regards Python language itself.

- Python Object Oriented
- Python Functions

Also does anyone have any tips on file size management? I'm barely done creating a demo and I'm already past 1000 lines in my code. Essentially everything done in a single file which makes it a bit hard to manage when you create a full scale game.

You can split the script into files. It doesn't have to be all in "script.rpy". Most common one would be split script based on "label" or "chapter". When Ren'Py is launch, it would read every files into one, so it doesn't matter. You can read more about it from the old Ren'Py FAQ - How do I split my game into multiple files?.

[Ocelot]

RenPy is built on top of Python -> You can use Python in your game V
Python supports Object Oriented Programming -> You can use OOP in your game if you want
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/python.html

space alone will be a benefit instead of having 10 variables that tell the same type of stat for 10 different characters

Just a question, why are you so sure that you need OOP for that? What is wrong with simple data structures and functions manipulating them?

Also there are a lot of clases in RenPy. Like, everything starting with capital letter: all screen actions, all transition classes (predefined transitions are instances of those classes)...

Essentially everything done in a single file which makes it a bit hard to manage when you create a full scale game.

Separate it into different files: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/language ... html#files

[papiersam]

Also does anyone have any tips on file size management? I'm barely done creating a demo and I'm already past 1000 lines in my code.

Separate it into different files: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/language ... html#files

Also, software architecture. Prolly #4 priority in Software Engineering.