Showing Money in game

[HoAbGa]

Hi all,

I am currently designing a game in RenPy.
There will be a money system in the game.
At game start, the player has 300 (maybe dollars). I just set a point-value for this at the game start.

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# The game starts here.
label start:
    $ money_points = 300

During the game, the player can earn and spend money.
In this example, the player receives 30 Money Points

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 $ money_points += 30

Now the question:

How can I make the current score visible in the game?
The player should see on the screen how much money he currently has. I would like to represent this with an additional picture, a dollar bill or similar.
It does not have to be a button. It just has to be seen, preferably in the upper right corner of the screen.

How can I make the value visible?

Thanks for your help!

[Steamgirl]

Here's some simple code for you:

Put this in your screens.rpy (although you can put it almost anywhere)

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#you can rename money_display to something else like wallet or whatever your want, just make sure it matches your "show" later
screen money_display:
   
    frame:
        xalign .5 #change this value between 0 and 1 if you want to move it to a different part of the screen horizontally
        yalign .02 #change this value if you want to move it to a different part of the screen vertically
        
        has vbox #this just makes all the elements inside the frame line up vertically, so you could add other things like hearts or XP or whatever
        text "[money_points]" #this will show your money points variable, you can add extra parameters such as font type, size, alignment etc
        

Then in your main game, you do...

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# The game starts here.
label start:
    $ money_points = 300
    show screen money_display #this shows the money
    "Some text"
    hide screen money_display #this hides the money

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions or if you get any errors (I didn't get the chance to test it)!

You can find more info on custom screens here as well if you want to add buttons or whatever: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html

[Imperf3kt]

I'd highly suggest removing $ money_points = 300 and instead add

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default money_points = 300

Before the start label

[HoAbGa]

I'd highly suggest removing $ money_points = 300 and instead add

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default money_points = 300

Before the start label

Thank you
but....
Why?
What is the difference?

[HoAbGa]

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#you can rename money_display to something else like wallet or whatever your want, just make sure it matches your "show" later
screen money_display:
   
    frame:
        xalign .5 #change this value between 0 and 1 if you want to move it to a different part of the screen horizontally
        yalign .02 #change this value if you want to move it to a different part of the screen vertically
        
        has vbox #this just makes all the elements inside the frame line up vertically, so you could add other things like hearts or XP or whatever
        text "[money_points]" #this will show your money points variable, you can add extra parameters such as font type, size, alignment etc

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# The game starts here.
label start:
    $ money_points = 300
    show screen money_display #this shows the money
    "Some text"
    hide screen money_display #this hides the money

This wokrs!!!! THANK YOU!!!!
But how can I add a image (icon) for money to that value in the screen?

[Steamgirl]

The default thing just means the value gets set before the game runs.

If you were working on the game and had a save game, if you then added some new variable under the start label that you check against later, you'd get errors if you loaded the save. It wouldn't exist in your save game. But if you set it as default, the save would check against the default value. I don't know if I explained that very well... It's handy to know about it but the way you did it works just fine.

Anyway, for the icon...

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screen money_display:
   
   #a frame creates a background for you so that your text isn't just floating around on screen but you can change it to a vbox or hbox if you don't want the frame
    frame:
        xalign .5 #change this value between 0 and 1 if you want to move it to a different part of the screen horizontally
        yalign .02 #change this value if you want to move it to a different part of the screen vertically
        has vbox
        
        #elements inside an hbox will appear horizontally compared to each other
        #you can use vbox: if you want them vertically, and you can stick hboxes inside vboxes and vice versa
        
        hbox:
            add "images/money_icon.png" #put your image location here
            text "[money_points]" #this will show your money points variable, you can add extra parameters such as font type, size, alignment etc

This is the important bit of code which you will need to change with the correct location.

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add "images/money_icon.png" #put your image location here

[Imperf3kt]

I'd highly suggest removing $ money_points = 300 and instead add

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default money_points = 300

Before the start label

Thank you
but....
Why?
What is the difference?

For this game, no difference.

I merely suggested it as good habit to get into since there may come a time where you need a default value.

[HoAbGa]

Ok got it

And it works pretty well!
Thank you both!

[Taleweaver]

Ren'Py question. Moved here.