[SOLVED] Menu text, transitions etc not working with "$ renpy.say"

[Kinmoku]

Hi all,

Instead of using the normal dialogue (e "Hello") I'm using $ renpy.say(e, "Hello"), for reasons mentioned in a previous post: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=50909

Unfortunately, this stops certain things from working. Menu dialogue (a character asking a question) doesn't display. Using "extend "" " doesn't work either (and goes back to the last normal dialogue string). Also, transitions like hpunch and vpunch don't work.

Does anyone know why this is and what I need to do to correct it?

Thanks

[trooper6]

You don't need to use $renpy.say if all you want to do is pass arguments as part of a say statement. See: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue ... -arguments.

But! If you are looking at speech bubbles, you may want to read the Patreon article that PyTom wrote all about speech bubbles...it is now open to non-Patreon supporters. And while, in the article, only the tail of the bubble moves, I'm sure you can use it as a model for your case.
https://patreon.renpy.org/speech-bubbles.html

[Kinmoku]

But! If you are looking at speech bubbles, you may want to read the Patreon article that PyTom wrote all about speech bubbles...it is now open to non-Patreon supporters. And while, in the article, only the tail of the bubble moves, I'm sure you can use it as a model for your case.
https://patreon.renpy.org/speech-bubbles.html

Oh, that's cool. Unfortunately, it's not what I'm doing for this project so the tail isn't much help. My speech bubbles are appearing all over the place depending on the artwork/ cgs, of which there are many.

$renpy.say is working how I want it to, apart from the menu text and transitions. Here's an example of what I've got:

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    $ renpy.say(m, "What happened?! Are you okay?", window_style="window_wide_bottom_middle")
    $ renpy.say(k, "Y-yeah.\nI jus' scraped my knee.", window_style="window_small_s1_fall")

In screens.rpy:

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style window_small_s1_fall:
    left_padding 110
    right_padding 110
    xmaximum 505
    xfill True
    ysize 173
    xpos 130
    ypos 355
    background Image("gui/memorybox_small.png")
    
style window_wide_bottom_middle:
    left_padding 78
    right_padding 78
    xmaximum 778
    xfill True
    ysize 215
    xpos 570
    ypos 814
    background Image("gui/memorybox_wide.png")

So, what's changing for each line is text padding, text box graphic, size and position. I have 4 different styles of bubble and multiple locations depending on the artwork. It's a lot of work but I'm doing it this way for the comic/ story book appearance I'd just like to add some hpunches and such.

[Kinmoku]

I also thought I'd test generating translations (as I'd like to translate the game in future) and this doesn't work either! I think I'm going to need to use the old solution and define a character for each text box position/ window style...

EDIT: Okay, I'm stupid. I didn't realise I could use the arguments for window style! But I can, and they work perfectly with hpunch, menus and translations! Hurray

Here's what I ended up with in case it helps anyone:

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    m "It's working!" (window_style="window_small") with hpunch

[trooper6]

That is what I was trying to tell you in my post when I said you can use arguments with regular say statements. Glad you finally grokked it!