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Still a prerelease, though it's been brewing for a couple of days already.
I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.1.4. This is the fourth patch release for Ren'Py 7.1, which improves Ren'Py while fixing issues. The main reason for this release is to fix a few issues in Android support caused by an SDK update.
There have also been a few feature additions. Some of the highlights are:
Menus now take arguments, and so do menu choices.
The new im.Blur image manipulator can blur static images.
Layeredimage groups can now contain non-conflicting attributes while still being automatically declared.
It's possible to display a non-looping Movie displayable, and to have a movie display a static image before the first frame renders.
A fullscreen Ren'Py will not minimize when the mouse changes monitors.
Text now takes renpy.BASELINE as a yanchor, which allows one to position the text's baseline.
The CTC screen now takes additional arguments, including the kind of click-to-continue indicator being shown.
In addition, there were a number of other bugfixes.
I've finally updated the prelease. It's been a week, but hopefully I made it worth it. The main change is that there's a new syntax for adding temporary attributes to a character's image for the duration of a line of dialogue.
e @vhappy "I'm really happy to tell you about temporary attributes."
A long-standing problem where Ren'Py would display a white (really gray) or black line at the bottom of the screen during a dissolve has been fixed. So have a number of other minor issue. So has the bug where the window preference was not highlighted when the game's resolution was bigger than the player's screen. Changes to reference counting should make image buttons faster, and the {space} tag now works correctly when the player scales the window.
Please, check this out and let me know. I'm especially interested in people trying out the new temporary image attributes, to make sure they work correctly, especially in conjunction with complicated layeredimages.
Last edited by PyTom on Sat Feb 16, 2019 7:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason:A few minor issues with 7.1.4.1263 lead to a quick 7.1.4.1266.
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PyTom wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 6:52 pm
7.1.4.1266)
I've finally updated the prelease. It's been a week, but hopefully I made it worth it. The main change is that there's a new syntax for adding temporary attributes to a character's image for the duration of a line of dialogue.
e @vhappy "I'm really happy to tell you about temporary attributes."
A long-standing problem where Ren'Py would display a white (really gray) or black line at the bottom of the screen during a dissolve has been fixed. So have a number of other minor issue. So has the bug where the window preference was not highlighted when the game's resolution was bigger than the player's screen. Changes to reference counting should make image buttons faster, and the {space} tag now works correctly when the player scales the window.
Please, check this out and let me know. I'm especially interested in people trying out the new temporary image attributes, to make sure they work correctly, especially in conjunction with complicated layeredimages.
Thanks PyTom for your continued efforts! I will try this out when I start the next Famous Fables short story. About defining emotions for these layered images, is that taken from the attribute names or do we have to define it separately somehow, if so, is there an example somewhere? Thanks!
Another week, another prerelease, hopefully the last one. This fixes a number of issues that came up when text scaling was enabled, and adds a new style preference.
I can't recall if it went in in this prerelease or the last one, but there's also new window auto show and window auto hide statements, which show and hide the window manually while keeping Ren'Py in window auto mode.
The use statement can now be written as use expression, which lets one show a screen that has its name stored in a variable.
The show screen and hide screen statements now take a with clause, that works like it does in the show and hide statements.
There have also been a number of bug and regression fixes. Drag and drop has been a focus, as has text issues and a few issues with say-with-temporary attributes.
I'd really like this version to be out by the start of NaNoRenO, so I'm going to spend a day or two improving the documentation, and fixing any regressions that show up, and then I'll release it. Thanks to everyone who's been testing - your feedback has massively improved Ren'Py and the games that will be made with it.
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It means renpy will show an image before the video begins rendering.
Possibly to avoid issues with the movie feature that caused transparent images to appear for 1 frame.
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AttributeError: 'renpy.styledata.styleclass.Style' object has no attribute 'outline_scaling'
This happens at runtime, just as the main menu is appearing. I hear the music start and the app closes. The game plays fine when launched from the launcher. It worked with the previous 7.1.4 build.
