Visual novel help ;-;

[StarsongKG]

Soo ive seen Doki Doki literature club, and im trying to find out how to make a character JUMP at the screen.. sorta like what Yuri did in act 2 or when

natsuki snapped her neck and shakily came towards you

im making a game for one of my sisters and i was sorta wanting my sister that lives with me to make my sis jump when she plays it Plz help

[Enchant00]

Hmm not sure but if your pertaining to the effect where

natsuki charges at you after snapping her head which leads to the bad end

then that can be achieved with just some atl.

Put this code anywhere most preferably above your label start or any other rpy where you defined your custom screens.

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transform jumpscare:
    ease .8 zoom 8.0 

Change the ease of .5 for the speed; the higher the number the slower the zoom
Change the zoom 8.0; the larger the zoom the closer and bigger to the screen

Then when you call the code you apply a vpunch so something like this:

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    'zoom test'
    show apple at jumpscare with vpunch #don't forget the vpunch which adds the shake effect

If you want to see something more visual then I could attach a sample rempy of the code.

[StarsongKG]

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I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.


File "game/script.rpy", line 85: Line is indented, but the preceding say statement statement does not expect a block. Please check this line's indentation.
    show scaretactic danielle at jumpscare with vpunch 
    ^

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 6.99.14.1.3218
Tue Apr 03 17:04:10 2018

confuseddd
(Wait was i suppost to change the show apple part?

[Imperf3kt]

"with vpunch" should be "at vpunch", IIRC, though I could be wrong.

[StarsongKG]

OHHHH k

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I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.


File "game/script.rpy", line 85: Line is indented, but the preceding say statement statement does not expect a block. Please check this line's indentation.
    show scaretactic danielle at jumpscare at vpunch 
    ^

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 6.99.14.1.3218
Tue Apr 03 17:17:38 2018

[Lord Hisu]

You should indent your code. That means 4 spaces to the right every time ":" appears on your code.
Like this:

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label start:
    "This code is indented."
    "Note that if I add something that requires a new block, like an if statement..."
    if True:
        "Then you need to move 4 spaces to the right again."
        "When the block ends, you go back 4 spaces to the left."
    "Understand?"

The error on your code is indentation or a missplaced ":" at the end of one of your lines of dialogue.

[Enchant00]

"with vpunch" should be "at vpunch", IIRC, though I could be wrong.

It is with vpunch rather at since it's more of a transition rather than an atl. It would return an error if you have 2 "at's". The error you recieved is an indentation error meaning somewhere in your code you didn't observe the 4 spaces

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label start:
    'Random text'  #dont forget the 4 spaces  
    show scaretactic danielle at jumpscare with vpunch #should be with not at
    if something:
        'Random test' #dont forget 4 spaces from your if block
    

If you are still having problems, below is the attached rpy of the jump you asked for XD Extract the contents to your project directory. If you dont know where your directory is then open the renpy laucher => preferences => top left you should see the directory; manual navigate to it through your pc

[Imperf3kt]

^ this.

I didn't read the traceback properly

[StarsongKG]

Enchant00 it was giving me errors on the spaces and now its letting me open the game for once xD so this worked for me:
'zoom test'
show scaretactic danielle at jumpscare with vpunch #should be with not at
if something:
'Random test' #dont forget 4 spaces from your if block
So yea
Tho idk how to fix this.

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 86, in script
    if something:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 86, in <module>
    if something:
NameError: name 'something' is not defined

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 86, in script
    if something:
  File "C:\Users\Starsong\Desktop\Renpy\renpy-6.99.14.1-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 1702, in execute
    if renpy.python.py_eval(condition):
  File "C:\Users\Starsong\Desktop\Renpy\renpy-6.99.14.1-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1843, in py_eval
    return py_eval_bytecode(code, globals, locals)
  File "C:\Users\Starsong\Desktop\Renpy\renpy-6.99.14.1-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1836, in py_eval_bytecode
    return eval(bytecode, globals, locals)
  File "game/script.rpy", line 86, in <module>
    if something:
NameError: name 'something' is not defined

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 6.99.14.1.3218
Jessicas Game 1.0
Wed Apr 04 21:22:32 2018

Confused

[Lord Hisu]

That "something" is anything that evaluates as True or False.

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1 < 5 # This is True
"abc" == "abc" # This is True
42 == 5 # This is False

[Enchant00]

Don't take the "something" literally XD it was just there to give you a brief idea of how spacing is after a condition block like what Lord Hisu stated above ^. For your convenience just omit the if something:

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label start:
    'Random text'  #dont forget the 4 spaces  
    show scaretactic danielle at jumpscare with vpunch 
    'More random text'

[StarsongKG]

Okay! Btw do you know how to move them back cause now i see a big face of the character on the right side of the game xD

[Lord Hisu]

Okay! Btw do you know how to move them back cause now i see a big face of the character on the right side of the game xD

You need to transform it back to zoom 1.0, or hide the image.

[StarsongKG]

Gracias!

[StarsongKG]

Question how do you tint the screen a color? Like I know you can put blood on it somehow but I want to tint it black-ish.. To make it dark and keep it dark the whole game (unless she finds someone or something that makes her life brighter when she has it with her or when shes with the person)