[SOLVED] Different Main Menu Background Upon Game Completion?

[codenewbie]

Hello! I'm unfamiliar with both coding and Ren'Py. I would like to change the image background of the main menu once the player completes the game, but I don't know how to do that. I found some things through Google but I don't know where to put what.

[Imperf3kt]

You need four simple things for this task.
The first is a default persistent variable which you can put anywhere outside a label (recommended suggestion is just before start label)
For example:

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default persistent.game_completed = False

label start:

The second requirement is to set that flag as True. This happens at the end of your game or any point you want, so it goes in the script file.

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    e "congratulations, you reached the good ending."
    $ persistent.game_completed = True
    return

The third step is to define a new background. This goes anywhere outside a label in the same way as we defined the persistent variable. Best place is gui.rpy

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define gui.game_clear_background = "path to file.png/jpg"

Finally, we need to check which background to show for the screen.

In screens.rpy, find the main menu screen (about halfway into the file)
Where it says add "gui.main_menu_background", we replace it with a conditional.

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    if persistent.game_completed:
        add "gui.game_clear_background"
    else:
        add "gui.main_menu_background"

Keep an eye on indentation. The number of spaces you put before each section of code is important.

[Enchant00]

One way you can go about it is by using persistent data and conditional statements

So, in your script place this above your label start:

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default persistent.new_menu = False

Next, in your gui go to line #86 and change the gui.main_menu to like the one below

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## Main and Game Menus #########################################################

## The images used for the main and game menus.
if persistent.new_menu:
    define gui.main_menu_background = "gui/main_menu_new.png" #change the one inside quotes with the filename of your new bg
else:
    define gui.main_menu_background = "gui/main_menu_new.png" #default main menu image
define gui.game_menu_background = "gui/game_menu.png"

Lastly, when you reach the end of your game just set this to true

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    $ persistent.new_menu = True

That's all Also, if you want to reset the bg back to its original menu, you'll have to click the clear persistent data in the renpy launcher. Try the above code then once it's good clear the persistent if you need to.

[codenewbie]

I had to take the quotes out of the if statement that I added to screens.rpy, but it works now! Thank you both!