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I'm new, sorry, but...
Folks, I'm new and know this a forum for folk who know what they're doing but I'm just working through some YT tutorials just now. One thing I discovered is that the dude kept saying put "pause" between everything to allow a user to click next. Doesn't work for me, I just put everything dialoge wise on a new line and that works fine or I just end up with a black text box between dialogues... Fine I figured that one out but am wondering if that's something to do with code indentation and structure or not, am I missing something?
I read a fabulous quote the other day something along the lines of (and whilst searching for game creation software);
"Here's some great tools, but by ... it's a lot of work, once you really get in to it and get started you'll wonder how games get created at all."
Much like everything and I'm sorely resting asking stupid questions here without reading up but I'm curious on this one, is it a RenPy version thing or whatnot?
I read a fabulous quote the other day something along the lines of (and whilst searching for game creation software);
"Here's some great tools, but by ... it's a lot of work, once you really get in to it and get started you'll wonder how games get created at all."
Much like everything and I'm sorely resting asking stupid questions here without reading up but I'm curious on this one, is it a RenPy version thing or whatnot?
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Re: I'm new, sorry, but...
Can you show the code? So that they'll understand your problem.
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Everyone is welcome here, even people with no programming knowledge at all.
Except spambots, they're not welcome anywhere.
Regarding why to use pause, how old is the video? Renpy is continually updated and many YouTube tutorials become obsolete within months of being uploaded. It's why I prefer the documentation (plus I dislike videos in general for this sort of thing anyway)
A pause is not necessary for each dialogue block, as you've noticed, just place the next line of dialogue on a new line at the same indentation as the last.
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Oh, and yes, Imperf3kt is right at one thing, Renpy on youtube is most i hate, just because their explanation is never done, (which is i know what is right of the simple codes on them. Obviously wrong.)
Just trust RenPy's documentation, that'll help you from the very start. Or maybe, dislike Youtube, that person may trying to put you in a wrong guide, especially when you are very far from the tutorial.
Just trust RenPy's documentation, that'll help you from the very start. Or maybe, dislike Youtube, that person may trying to put you in a wrong guide, especially when you are very far from the tutorial.
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Re: I'm new, sorry, but...
We all have to start somewhere. So there are few true stupid questions (even if you feel stupid for asking them
)
I don't know exactly what you're doing without a sample of your code but here's how you can use the pause function without the text background:
It works the same if you are using the show command for your images by the way. Hope this answered your question 

I don't know exactly what you're doing without a sample of your code but here's how you can use the pause function without the text background:
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label some_label:
scene image-1
writer "I'm the writer let me show you something" #Regular text
window hide #hides the textbox
scene image-2
pause
scene image-3
pause
scene image-4
window show #shows text box again
writer "Did you enjoy?"
writer "Now go..."

Re: I'm new, sorry, but...
Wow thanks folks,
I feel welcomed. Yep I think I've figured it out for now but that helps a lot, and I will be posting code next time 
Cheers.


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Hahaha, Love you, well said.isobellesophia wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:41 pmOh, and yes, Imperf3kt is right at one thing, Renpy on youtube is most i hate, just because their explanation is never done, (which is i know what is right of the simple codes on them. Obviously wrong.)
Just trust RenPy's documentation, that'll help you from the very start. Or maybe, dislike Youtube, that person may trying to put you in a wrong guide, especially when you are very far from the tutorial.
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Might as well learn in the documentations if you dont mind, Youtube RenPy tutorials are confusing.
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