[Solved] Saving screenshots just outside "/game/" directory? (but still within the game's folder!)

[Wight]

Right now I have a Function that takes a screenshot of the game, gives it a certain file name, and saves it in a folder titled "album". Which means the path currently works like this:
MY_VN/game/album

This is what I have right now, and it works fine.

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default screenshot_firstscreenshot = os.path.join( renpy.config.gamedir, "album", "first_screenshot.png" )

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Function( renpy.screenshot, screenshot_firstscreenshot )

For the player to access the folder, they have to go into the "game" folder, and then the "album" folder. I realized I want to make it just a little bit more convenient and detectable for the player by putting it alongside the 'game' folder rather than within it, which means it would be visible on the same page as the game's .exe file. In other words, rather than
MY_VN/game/album
it would be
MY_VN/album
and it would look something like this


I believe it's something I have to change in the "os.path.join( renpy.config.gamedir, "album", "first_screenshot.png" )" part but I can't figure out the exact terms I should use and I'm not having any luck through searching.

[IrinaLazareva]

Try renpy.config.basedir instead of renpy.config.gamedir.

[Wight]

Try renpy.config.basedir instead of renpy.config.gamedir.

No luck. It does recognize "basedir" because it's not giving me an AttributeError (which I get when I tried something like renpy.config.base), but it seems to do nothing.


UPDATE: Nevermind, it works! When I was trying to change some things, I noticed it wasn't behaving as expected and it made me realize something I forgot to try. So I closed the game, tried your suggestion again , relaunched it, and it worked! Thank you very much!